You're Admitted! Now What? with Devon Bohart - Mountain/Central Region

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My name is Devin. I meant admissions advisor, an alumni. I'm really excited to host our first webinar of this season. First thing I want to do is make sure y'all can hear me go ahead and China in on the chat. Let me know the audio is working.

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Say Yes Hello, I can hear you perfect. OK, perfect already. I also want to let you know we have a closed captioning option. If you click the icon in the top right, you can see the captioning show up in the chat. Just keep in mind it's an automated service so it may not be perfect, but let's go ahead and get started since y'all could hear me, congratulations, you are admitted students. I know you almost have a million questions about UC Davis and your next steps as admitted students and I'm here to demystify.

Kind of this piece of the puzzle for you. Get those questions answered and just get you pumped about your admission. Your first step now your main step now is to decide what campus is right for you. So as only here already submitted SIRNESI Rs yet.

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That's OK, it's very early in the process. Still is completely normal to not know yet. So if you're on the fence, no worries. Let's dive into some things you need to consider before making that leap, so we want to talk about the five most popular reasons that students choose UC Davis.

The first and probably most obvious reason is our beautiful campus. We have one of the largest campuses of the UCS with over 5000 acres. This includes our massive quad right at the heart of our campus. A great location for students, socialize, study, relax on any of our wonderful hammocks on the right. You can see a great shot of heart Hall, which is nestled next to the quad. Like I said, right in the center of campus. Something else to note.

For those of you who are from out of state is our amazing California weather. We have over 250 sunny days a year, no snow and we average about 20 or so inches of rain, which is less than the average in the United States. So that's something to kind of look forward to. A nice sunny warm days on the left. In this slide you can see our residence halls for first year students. Housing is guaranteed for first year students and we highly encourage that. Are incoming students take advantage of the opportunity to live on campus?

We have multiple options for housing and you can select your preferences on your housing application. Once you submit your Sri or statement of intent to register, you will then submit your housing application. You can find info for how to do that as well as all and other enrollment tasks on my admission. So once you Sir, you'll have an entire list and I'll talk about those briefly towards the end of the presentation as well.

On the Southside of campuses are Gorgeous Arboretum. It's home to thousands of species of wildlife are Puta. Creek is down there. We are various gardens or Redwood Grove in more, so it serves as an outdoor laboratory. Also a nice backdrop for ajag a picnic. All kinds of things.

So when I was looking at schools way back when campus dining was a big factor in where I chose to go to school I wanted to make sure I had all the amazing foods that there were to offer. So here at Dave's students live on campus, there are set up so students live on campus will purchase a meal plan which can be used at any of our three dining Commons, one of which you can see on the left. They serve delicious food from sustainable, an responsible sources, and they work to cater to all dietary restrictions so.

Vegan, kosher, you name it. They have dietitians and nutritionists as well to ensure that students are getting all of the different foods that they need and all the things they want as well. So for students grabbing a quick bite, the main place to go is the coffee house, also called the coho which is in our Memorial Union. It's entirely student run. An offer is an extensive menu of options so you can find anything there. Pizzas, pasta, dishes, sandwiches, sushi, burritos, salads, bagels. They also have coffee, smoothies, ice cream.

All kinds of different things. Fulfilling any craving. So we also have the silo which is on the South side of campus, similar to the M you a bit smaller, but it does have made to order crepes, boars, head sandwiches and it also hosts various local food trucks which rotate throughout the week and then for the freshest ingredients folks can take advantage of our student farm which helps to stock the pantry, which is a program that provides free food to students to combat food insecurity on campus. So that's something that we're really proud of, making sure students have everything that they need.

And then all the different options on campus as well.

And what college is about academics? That is only one part of the experience on campus. Here we have multiple museums and amazing newly renovated Rockpool. An 8 Lane Bowling Alley and then a lounge as well. All to keep you entertained when you're taking those quick study breaks. So our campus is pretty decked out.

Uh, the second reason that students pick UC Davis is the experience you get inside and outside the classroom. and I would say especially outside the classroom. So on the left here you see a picture of a student taking our very popular tractor driving course. I'm myself, took it, absolutely loved it. It was so much fun in such a great way to shake up my schedule of other like lectures and seminars and things like that. With over 100 apartments on campus, we have a lot of unique experiences for students to take advantage of to kind of build up those resumes.

But also just have some fun. So we have our coffee lab Porsche on the right, which includes brewing an tasting different types of roasts, which is fun.

Outside of Davis outside away from campus. Students can still learn and get their hands on experience in a lot of different locations in Sacramento. We have our medical school where students can secure internships as well as are you see Sacramento program for students interested in political science policy, etc. We also have a Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory, where students can participate in a summer residence program, which is seen in the photo in the bottom left there, so awesome hands on experience. UCD is also boasts one of the most expensive study abroad programs of the UC campuses.

And we have programs that visit over 40 countries on every continent. I actually studied global literature in Greece. Whether you see his professor over a summer and that was absolutely incredible. So there's lots of different options for you in all varieties from different majors, including in STEM fields.

And of course you are considering what's going to happen after your four years as well. So Davis wants to make sure that you're learning, but also building up your resume with work, an internship experience on and around campus, our student government, an in? Excuse me. Our student government ASU CD has one of the biggest budgets of a college student government in the US and allow students to have a lot of influence over campus decisions so that they oversee things like unit trans, which is our bus system, which is entirely driven and repaired by students.

Which offers work experience and also money to help you pay for school.

We also offer a unique opportunity called the barn residence program. One of many ways to support students in news in need of housing, but also providing experience working with animals on a daily basis. You can see one of our students holding a lamb at our sheep barn there.

And then Lastly, our internship and Career Center put students in over 10,000 internships every year. I actually didn't internship in San Diego with a local CBS News station. I learn more about journalism, which was cool. I got course credit for that as well.

So finding a place where you can be healthy, physically, mentally and even environmentally is really important. And here at Davis we take that very seriously. We are very green, holding various rankings for our sustainability efforts around campus with our reliance on green transportation like our public transportation, which is like our buses or ecofriendly bikes, we keep our impact on the environment and very low. We also consistently implement ecofriendly practices such as using solar panels and constructing LEED certified buildings.

And those things have things like skylights in place of lighting. We also are committed to recycling and composting with separate bins all over campus so everyone can do their part to support the environment.

And biking is a major part of UC Davis culture. If you didn't know, it's something you'll learn very quickly. It is good for the environment, yes, but it's also really good for you getting those endorphins going In addition to exercise from bike transportation. Students have full access to our recently expanded activities and rec center, also called the Ark, which is a fully loaded jam with exercise. Classes are rock climbing wall, basketball and racquetball courts, and so many different weight weight machines and different cardio machines as well. You can also see we offer.

Different health finished initiatives on campus such as free yoga sessions throughout the year in the quad, which is good for physical and also mental health. We also have our dining halls, campus eateries and pantry all offering healthy food options as well as an on campus farmers market. Are downtown farmers markets where the top 10 the nation, and we also have that on campus during certain times of year. So students have easy access to fresh, organic produce on a regular basis.

For me, school spirit was a major deciding factor when I was selecting what school I wanted to go to, and I think a lot of other students come to realize that as well. So we do have over 20 NCAA Division One athletic teams, including football, basketball question and beach volleyball. All sporting events are free for students and we have a massive student cheer section, which usually includes free swag which makes these events that much more enticing. We also have plenty of opportunities for students to place for.

With taking part in our club teams or intramural rec teams as well, so lots of ways for students to play sports. But Ucdavis Spirit extends past athletics, so the location of the school you want to attend is really important. You're committing to living there for four years and being in Davis, a college town, through and through alumni and community members all celebrate the campus and want to contribute to that student experience. Davis is truly an amazing place to spend your college years.

And Lastly, I would say probably the most common thing that you will hear students talk about is the sense of community they feel on our campus people, even strangers, are friendly and supportive of one another, which makes it such a wonderful place to study, learn and live. So we have for physical space is like our residence halls, international center and student Community Center.

Well, offer our students opportunities to congregate in connect like in real spaces, but we also have programming in various campus groups for students to find their their spaces on campus wherever that may be. So with our 800 plus clubs, hundreds of employment opportunities on campus internships and more, we allow students to find things their passionate about and then meet others who share the same interests. So there's going to be a space for people of all walks of life here, including you when you talk to students that come to Davis, why they chose Davis.

Just ask him about their experiences. It's a great thing. I would challenge you to do it as well with anyone that you know that goes to or has gone to Davis at any point in time. They will all share how all these different, really unique experiences that they had and how much how much they were. Apart of all these things that they did an while. Everyone stories may be different there, ending always is the same and they talk about how they love being at UC Davis. They love studying here in living here and it was a great place for them to spend their their college years.

So that's kind of the reason that I chose Davis myself is talking to different people. They all shared is amazing experiences and they all found their homes in different places. And that was something that I wanted to be able to do as well.

So I want to wrap up with a timeline of things coming up for you guys. I'm sure you're familiar with the deadline to submit your statement of intent to register or essay are on May 1st. Quickly following will be your deadline to submit your housing application, so keep that in mind. My admissions is going to be a great resource to see all of your deadlines, so once USA are, you're going to find a checklist there and that's going to have everything that needs to be done with all the data they need to be completed by the main ones being official transcripts and test scores. Test scores being AP or IB exams.

I understand that things are a bit different now with the coronavirus kind of shifting things to being online, so just keep a keep an ear out for if those deadlines are adjusting, you will have all those listed in your my admissions page.

And if you have any questions are webinars are great opportunities to ask we actually I will be posting and ask me. Anything um in a couple of weeks. I believe, but will have a couple of those so if you have any outstanding questions. You want to talk to someone in real time that would be the best resource for you is to take advantage of our webinars will be doing a Q&A. At the end of this in a couple of minutes here. If you are unable to take advantage of the webinars you think of something and random timing.

Or are you simply want to just use more of an email format? We have this ask an advisor button in our admissions page so you go to admissions@ucdavis.edu and you can ask an advisor there, and we've got a variety of staff members checking in on that, making sure we get all your questions answered so you gotta couple of resources there and then. A really cool resource for you folks. This is specifically for our students that are in the mountain and Midwest regions. This is your opportunity to kind of connect with one another so you can.

Download WhatsApp on your phone and then scan this QR code again. This is for folks in kind of the mountain in Midwest regions, so if you are if that applies to you, go ahead and check that out and then if you would have any friends or you know anyone else, you can invite them as well. This is also way to ask me direct questions, so if I'll be in the chat as well and I can check in on those and if you have any questions I can pop in and answer those two so.

Uhm yeah. So I just wanted to say one more time. Congratulations you guys. The hard part is over the applications, all the air exams, the waiting. You've been admitted that such an accomplishment. So enjoy it. Take your time. Ask questions. You've got a variety of ways to do that.

Ultimately, we just look forward to the opportunity to be your home for the next four years already. So I'm going to go back to that. Cue our code for those of you who are still adding WhatsApp on your phone, and let's go ahead and open it up to some questions.

What questions do we have? Folks, I can share a little bit more about some details about campus for out of state students. My shared a little bit about the weather. I do want to kind of also keep in share with you. Kind of. We do have like a Northern California mentality where the farthest North you see of the UCS were located. Kind of near work.

Inland and North of the Bay Area, but we're only about an hour to two hours depending on where you're going in the Bay, and we're only a couple hours away from Tahoe, which is great for skiing and then warmer months. It's great for you, know, cabins going out and things like that. And then there's a lot of different opportunities for outdoor adventures thing, so if you're interested in snow activities while it doesn't snow in Davis, we do have a lot of mountains nearby for skiing or other snow activities, and then the outdoor adventures does a lot of different hiking and backpacking trips.

And camping trips as well, so lots of ways for that outdoor in nature. So whether it's urban area looking for we have the Bay Area nearby or being outside we have kind of those outdoor adventure opportunities as well, so definitely check those out.

It looks like we have a question about GE classes to fulfill GE requirements for the many con major. So what you will do there is kind of different tiers of requirements will fulfill an. It's going to be the University level. The college level in the major level. So what you're going to want to do is go to the college. I actually can share this screen, hold on 1 second, let me pull it up and then I can share my screen with you where you should go. You're probably going to hear me typing.

So manage your economics is in the College of AG and Environmental Sciences. Hold on 1 second.

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Can't requirements bachelors Supreme. So just like I said there is the University requirements. The college requirements in the major requirements.

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OK, so um, you can see over here. I just typed into Google College of AG and environmental Sciences Gen Ed requirements. It took me to this page on the College of AG and Environmental Sciences website and then you can see there's the University requirements that Gen Ed requirements though. So yeah, so the general Ed requirements that apply to all colleges, the college specific in the major specific. So there's going to be the University requirements. So the UC Davis General catalog has all those specific requirements.

For you, um, the general Ed requirements going to be, like I said, the general catalog has shares about the topical breath and the core literacies, so it gets a little confusing. These are all things that you're going to get familiar with overtime. Ultimately, you're going to work with an advisor, and when you do orientation, there's kind of Aggie 101, which is an intro course that you're going to do.

And then after that you're going to meet with an adviser and they're going to help you sign up for your courses for your first quarter and then from there you can continually work with your advisors in your college to make sure all your geez are being met because that's the easiest way to do it is we do advising by college and then as you start getting into your major course work you will work with major advisor specifically to make sure you have everything that you need so then there's the undergrad there's different degree requirements like I said universe level GE.

Uhm, and then you've got your college and then your major. So those are going to depend on the different degree and then different majors as well. So I would just go to manager economics. They'll likely have a major checklist somewhere in here.

I don't see it.

So what I would do is just go to UC Davis, managerial economics major checklist.

I can't smell today and typically yeah, you can find that document you want to make sure that it's the right year, so this looks a bit out of date. So just make sure you're looking at the right year unconfident. You can find it in Google because this is what current students are using to make sure they fulfill all the requirements. So this is what they used in 2015. It gives you kind of a feel for OK you can take.

Intro to macro and Micro Economics your intro management courses. Your math courses likely will be taking the 16 series if you're looking at E. Connor. Manic on, that's a really specific example, but it's going to be applicable to anyone, so you can use the course catalog. You can just Google and find things that way. Let me go ahead and go back to there you go, so that's kind of where I would go for. So there's a lot of different courses that are going to fulfill those G requirements, and there's going to be college specific, and then your major courses are going to be specific for your major, so there.

Kind of different. The course catalog will have a bunch of different little Mike Codes for lack of a better word that will indicate which GE requirements they fulfill, so you'll kind of get acquainted with that once you start using that resource. So it's kind of confusing, but I'm confident you'll get the hang of it very quickly, especially if you're utilizing your advisors, which you will meet with before you even come to campus virtually.

Uhm, so yeah. So there's a lot of information on GE requirements, but it like there's a lot that kind of goes into it. Looks like we have another question about what makes you see Davis unique so you see Davis has so many different things that make it unique.

In terms of things that you would notice as as a student something that's really unique about it is that we have we are we are competitive and our students are incredibly academically inclined and there is a high level of rigor with our courses however there still is a sense of community and camaraderie amongst the student body so that there's kind of a very collaborative feel in the classroom and outside so yes while we do hides it is a challenging campus academically it's not.

We there's like I said, there's a lot of collaboration students working together to help each other be successful together, and that was something that I experienced as a student. Like I said inside, and also outside the classroom. So lot of group work, lot of teamwork, lot of kind of building communities in lots of different spaces, alot of just really friendly people and I think a lot of different reasons for that. I had sometimes joke that we ride bikes so much that we have all these endorphins and we're just happy people. The fact that we ride bikes and that is such that we rely so much on that mode of Transportation is really unique as well.

There are more bikes and students on our campus. Many times our faculty right as well. I have written to my bike to work in the past before as well, so there's a lot of different pieces. Also are how in touch we are with agriculture.

I am actually from San Diego, deep in the suburbs. I came to Davis too. I was planning on being a journalist I had. I have no background in agriculture. I had no interest in going into in the future, but I came to Davison. I learned so much about how important it is to take care of the environment, to eat good, healthy, fresh foods, how easy it is to get them in a place like Davis where we have these amazing farmers markets. So those are some of the things I think make Davis stand out and make it unique, especially amongst UC campuses.

So those are kind of some of the things that I like to share, and some of the things that I loved about the campus.

Um, looks like we have a question about on campus housing. So for freshman housing is guaranteed for every student, so if you aren't incoming first year incoming transfer as well. But we're talking with freshman right now for incoming freshmen applicants, you are guaranteed a spot in housing, so it's not first come first serve. You do want to make sure you meet that housing deadline though, otherwise you're not going to be guaranteed housing, so once you submit your Sr, submit your housing application. Kind of do that.

Kind of within the same day or so, just to make sure that it gets submitted in the appropriate time.

It looks like this to there's a question are interviews for internships on campus or do we have to travel to where the company is located it would depend I think I mean it really would depend I think you may be able to arrange for a virtual one especially if you're doing an internship for example I was doing an internship in San Diego but I arranged it in over the summer by arranged it prior to that may have been in San Diego Co incidentally to be able to manage the interview but.

It really will depend on the opportunity and you can work with the internship and Career Center to kind of help you navigate that.

A question about do we get to pick our roommates? You can pick your roommate if you would like. Uhm, I believe they use Facebook now to help students match each other. You can if you know someone that's going to Davis that you would like to room with, you can select to live with them. If you would like, you would just need to ensure that all the preferences you indicate on your housing application are the same as the person you want to room with. So you need to have the same.

Housing preferences. Basically applications need to match for them to be able to match you together.

A question, do we have to come to campus for orientation so orientation this year is shifted a bit than in the past in the past, yes, you would come to campus over the summer studying this year, barring any major adjustments due to kind of the changing times, the initial. The planet doesn't now is to host what's called Aggie 101, which is a mandatory online course that you will take and it will basically be kind of the foundations of orientation.

After you do that, you will sign up to meet with an adviser virtually to help you sign up for your classes, 'cause you will need to do that before you get to campus and then orientation will actually start once you move on to campus. So you'll move on to campus a week and a half before classes start I believe a week we can have four classes start and you want to move in. There will be a variety of different orientation activities to help get you acquainted with campus. So to answer your question, kind of a long answer, but Yes you will come to campus rain Tatian, but if you're going to move in at the same time so you don't have to come out.

And then leave and then come back so it should be pretty easy process.

It looks like we have a question about the quarter system.

The quarter system I actually really liked it, so I was on the quarter system for my undergrad in a semester system for my masters, and I prefer the quarter system myself. The quarter system we go September and we go 10 weeks plus an 11th week of finals and then we would. Students would complete that first quarter and then go off to winter break and then the second quarter would be starting in early, mid, mid January or so.

And that would go until, um, I believe the end of March, and that would be when we have spring break and then starting in April, April through mid June. That's when we have our third quarter. And that's when summer starts. So it's technically we have 3/4 that are mandatory. It's going to be fall, winter and spring and then summer. We have actually wished the fourth kind of invisible quarter for lack of a better word. It's optional. I never did an official summer session. I just did a summer abroad, which technically with summer courses, but.

I didn't partake in some recession. We have two summer sessions and rather than the 10 weeks that are traditional quarters, are those are only six weeks and students can participate in both summer sessions. If they would like. It really depends on what you're doing, so some students will take advantage of the summer option. Some students don't and they want to do either. Wanna work, go abroad, do an internship. There's lots of different options for Summers, so that's kind of how the quarter system works. In a nutshell, semesters typically start earlier.

Like in August and then they go up until December and then the second semester would be January through May. So everything is shifted about a month or so to kind of function for our quarter system. So that's how that works. So it looks like they have a question about class size. An classes classes really varies your intro level courses will be. They could have 102 hundred students and then they could be pretty pretty big, but those will also have depending on the class.

A discussion Andorra lab, linked with those and those are going to be no more than like 20, maybe 30 students, and that's when you'll have opportunities to work with graduate students or the professor, depending on how the course is situated, and then for as soon as you get into major specific courses, upper division classes get much smaller. They could be as small as 1020 students and then all of your intro level. Even your interlevel language. All of those are going to be small, so there will be no more than 30 students, so those are going to be.

Comparable to the classes you likely are in currently in high school, and then I'm trying to think oh and then any seminars that you take so those first year seminars, which I highly encourage. There are a lot of fun. There's a variety of different types and they vary year to year. My year there were some about dogs in dog shelters and we got to visit dog shelter. I also took a creative writing one I took an intro level 1 two just learning about the research University. So like a UC campuses of research institution.

There are some that are about zombies or The Simpsons or variety of other things, so that's kind of a freshman seminar which are kind of fun, and those are going to be much smaller as well.

So that's kind of the class size. It it varies a lot and then the other thing to keep in mind. Students get discouraged 'cause it's like Oh my gosh, look at class with 200 students done so impersonal. and I would say it's not I really enjoyed having those larger classes. Lecture style is a really. It can be a really great way to learn just long as you make sure you're engaged and taking advantage of opportunities like office hours. All of our all of our teachers faculty members have office hours that students can take advantage of. I would say there definitely underutilized by students, so you should definitely.

It's a great way to get to know your professors, and it definitely will set you up for if you potentially could need letters of recommendation in the future, depending on if you're looking at different jobs, internships, research graduate programs, lots of times, you'll need different letters of recommendation from faculty specifically in your major, so it's good to get to know your faculty in the classroom. You can as well, but office hours are the best way for sure, so take advantage of that.

So it looks like we have a question. Can we just walk around campus to get the feel of it? You can walk around campus. We have actually as far as last time I checked, we have suspended parking permit information, so check our transportation and parking services to double to confirm parking permits. But last time I checked it said that they were suspending the requirements for those. So you can visit are welcome. Center is closed and most of our buildings are going to be closed and locked because our campuses.

Mostly close down and will be working from home as much as possible, but you can definitely look. I mean a lot of our campuses outside an absolutely beautiful. The tree is the quad Arboretum. All of those are technically open. We have an open campus that's kind of you. Just walk right onto it. We don't have any clothes gates or anything like that. So technically, yes, you can see there won't be many people around if you're trying to get instant information. If you download a map online, you can kind of get a feel for where things are.

You can at least look and see what things look like if you live nearby. You definitely can walk around. Just note that everything is pretty much closed, including are welcome center.

Do you folks have any other questions?

It's quiet this evening, so definitely for those of you who are in the mountain or Midwest regions, definitely join the WhatsApp Group. Like I said, it's WhatsApp Mountain in Midwest.