Ask Me Anything! UC Davis Admissions Q&A

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Let us know where you're from and what the weather is like where you guys are at.

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Mantica very hot missing winter for sure where it's at 75 degrees.

San Diego 70. San Francisco 64. That sounds amazing 64 degrees.

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OK, so we are at 6:05. Sorry you guys had to just stare at me awkwardly looking at the screen for the last five minutes. But first of all, welcome welcome. Thank you so much for joining us today for our Ask Me Anything you see. Davis admissions Q&A today if you are familiar with read it then you know what animes are all about is asking me anything so ask me anything about UC Davis and hopefully we can get some good answers today.

So first some housekeeping rules. We have closed captioning that you can go ahead and click. Just be aware that it is automated, so it might not be perfect, but hopefully I can speak clearly enough where the captions are going to be pretty accurate. Joining me today are some of my coworkers from undergraduate admissions, Sandy, Jackie, and Maritza, who are our chat moderators and then also we have Allie, Michelle Shea and Molly as our student. Chat support. So they'll really be able to give us some good insight.

What it's like to be a UC Davis student? To introduce myself my name is Ella Lam. I am in admissions advisor and analyst over for undergraduate admissions, and what that means is I work with both perspective freshmen and transfer students about what it takes to get into UC Davis and hopefully support you guys along the way. As you make your decisions on what's going to be the best fit for you. So, without further ado, let's go ahead and get started.

Also feel free to drop any questions throughout any part of the presentation that comes up. If any of this on any of the sides. If you have questions about, feel free to just shoot those questions out and we'll try to we'll try our best to go ahead and answer them. Alright, so first of all, let's talk about my admission, so my admissions is our portal, which is where you are going to go. Whenever you have something to update us on, you've probably been on my admissions many times already.

But if you haven't, please be sure to sign up and log in right after this presentation. You can get started by clicking on the link in your admission email or going to the URL on screen. So myadmissions.ucdavis.edu this is our online portal where you can get a bunch of information about UC Davis. Commit to attending the fall by submitting your sirf or completing other admission or enrollment tasks. So this is where you're going to accept your financial aid. Apply for student housing after you submit your sirf.

Also, updating us on, let's say if you have a new address or a new email or you need to update us on some classes that you're taking admissions. My admissions is really going to be your one stop shop in order to let us know exactly what's going on.

Uh, once you looked over all your information, so your contract maybe if you have specific grades that you need to get all that kind of stuff, make sure to also commit to UC Davis so you can also go onto the my admission, submit our statement of intent to register and then there will be a small deposit that is non refundable. And then you're off at a gun rock, Gallup, Tord joining us at campus in the fall.

So let's talk about student housing for transfer students. So for our transfer students, you're most likely going to be living in our brand new apartment community. The green at West Village. So you can see some of the pictures here. We had some students moving in, and So what? That looks like is that there are more of a student apartment instead of freshman dorms because we know as transfer scenes you guys are more mature and that you want to kind of have more independent style living. So you can see in the pictures right here you have some common areas of the kitchen.

All brand new appliances. Looks really really awesome. And then you have these really great cards also help you move in as well. If you have a lot of stuff like me.

So during normal times we do guarantee housing for your first two years at UC Davis, but we might have to modify that based on public health guidelines. So that's just something that you want to be cognizant of. Checking your emails for us from us regarding any campus updates. For now we are looking towards a return to campus this fall, but again, just keep in mind and check your email. Check your spam for any updates from us.

You also have the option of purchasing a meal plan so you can also eat at our on campus dining Commons and the housing Office can also help you find off campus housing if you need it. And one thing I will say about the meal plans or just the meals in general and Davis are like just amazing because there's just so many different kinds of cuisines. If you have specific dietary restrictions as well, like maybe you're vegetarian or you're vegan, or you can only eat halal food or things like that. We definitely make accommodation so.

That's just something I think that's really cool that we do at UC Davis to make sure all of our students are taken care of.

So once you have decided to Sirf 2 Davis, you will then start your three part orientation process. So the first part of it is going to be ID 101, so that's learning all about UC Davis. What resources we have the requirement in the community, right? I think it's really important to find out if Davis is going to be the right fit for you and so that's what AGI 101 is going to be all about. After that Aggie advising happens over the summer where you meet with an advisor from your college and then they work with you on how to build a fall quarter schedule.

And also register for classes.

You'll have an online appointment with them and then you'll have a chance to directly register for your first classes as well. All students will be given a pass time.

Then the in mid September mid September is when you would move into your campus home and then complete several days of in person orientation and welcome activity. So obviously providing that everything is going to be better.

Orientation is hopefully going to be in person.

So fall classes also start September 22nd, so please put that in your calendar. We can't wait to see you guys on campus.

OK so some important dates to remember so late April decisions were released for our transfer, students May 4th through the 8th is Aggie Experience Live and today is may the fourth be with you. I know I had to throw that corny joke right there. June 1st is the deadline to submit your Sir and then also be sure to check all of your enrollment related tasks. In my admissions June 4th is the deadline to apply for student housing July 1st. To send your official transcripts.

And then July 15th is your deadline to send official test scores. So the one thing I do want to say is that July 1st, with those official transcripts. I know a lot of you might have the question of.

Our high school transcripts required, so we for some students we do require high school transcripts, but for the majority is that they are recommended but not required. The reason why it might be beneficial for you to go ahead and submit your high school transcripts is so that you have sometimes the classes that you took in high school. So like a foreign language or think or U.S. history or something like that that can satisfy some of our requirements at UC Davis and then also we can go ahead and post your high school graduation date.

At your on your official UC Davis transcript.

So this is what this screen will look like for you once you log into my admissions and also my my awards for your financial aid. So if you say yes, yes to UC Davis, you would go ahead and click and say I accept your offer and then there's going to be some information about the non transparent non refundable $250 deposit. And then if you are still deciding maybe you got into various campuses or you're just really not sure yet.

There's a bunch of different resources we have available through my admissions where you could just find out cool stuff that we have on campus.

Alright, so before we get to.

The questions will go ahead and do is also just provide the next couple of days worth of schedules. So just make sure if you want to learn more about UC Davis still deciding, or maybe you've already sirp to us and you just want to learn more. We have a bunch of different events this entire week to make sure that you know exactly what you see. Davis is all about, OK, so.

With that I'm going to go ahead and start answering some questions.

And let's see.

So Cameron, the official high school transcript test scores, yes, so if you have AP test scores or IB or anything like that, you would need to go ahead and send those into us because they are college credit SCT SCT, you don't need to worry about that. We don't require that for transfer students and no longer freshman students anyway. But yeah, API be anything like that. You would need to go ahead and submit. So if you took those along time ago and you think that they might be archived, it's a good idea now to go ahead.

And request for those through College Board.

Alright, so you see that yeah, Maritza Michelle.

They're answering some questions.

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Let's see, I think as people as my chat support are there, approving questions, I think they're going to answer them in the chat. So if you see your question and it's been there.

Just someone will go ahead and answer that question for you.

OK, I think this is a really great question that I wanted to go ahead and address for the good of the group. Which is, is it possible to change majors or add a minor as a transfer student and so Kendall that is an excellent question. Yes, it is definitely possible to change majors provided that you complete one successful quarter at UC at UC Davis and then also completing any required classes that might be required for the major that you are considering changing to.

Adding a minor also is definitely possible. We have so many different minors as well, so if that is something that you're interested in, whether it is changing your major or adding a minor is to work with your advisor at your college and they can definitely help you plan so that you're taking the appropriate classes and then also finding a good workload for you.

OK, so how are roommates assigned? That is a great question. So for roommates you can go ahead and submit a roommate request form.

You decide not to request any specific roommates. Then you would be placed based on some assessments that they ask you like. You know your preferences, that kind of stuff like cleanliness for preferences or things like that. So that would be how roommates would be randomly assigned to you. But again, if you have an idea of who you want to live with, you can definitely send in that roommate requesting you would just want to make sure that your roommate also put your name there as well.

And I definitely recommend for folks who have questions about financial aid, like specifics about your particular situation is to financial aid or for housing is to go to their websites because these are questions that we get every single year and their website has a lot of different resources in common questions that they get. So definitely a good idea to check out those websites and I can go ahead and put post those.

For you guys in the chat as well.

So there is the link for housing.

So Cameron does the high school transcripts have to be an official transcript, yes.

It has to be an official transcript for us to recognize. It also has to be sealed if it's been awhile since you've been in high school and you're you know, maybe your high school no longer has your records or anything. I believe you can contact your school district and get those records.

Yeah, I'll come in. I would. Sorry if I said your name incorrectly, but I would definitely encourage you to email me so we can kind of formulate a game plan regarding your specific situation.

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So for I always have trouble seeing this word. I don't know why, but immunity immunizations. Is there a resource to help explain how to gather and submit them and how to get any missing immunizations if necessary so we do have a new link that you can go ahead and take a look at for the.

I'm just going to say shots were the shots that you need to get. This information is also available through my admissions as well, but if you had any specific questions on how to get those missing shots that you need, the website that we posted will definitely be able to help you get any resources on where to get those shots.

Alright, so from Robbie, if I take summer classes in Community College will that transfer the credit to the UC? Yes, so that is a great question. Your summer classes will transfer to UC Davis if you decide to take any summer classes, what's going to happen is that after you have your official grades for their summer courses, you'll have to send us an official copy of your transcript from your Community College and then to which we can add that at the back end on to your UC Davis transcript.

Just know that any summer classes that you decide to take are not going to be used for admission purposes, so you don't need to worry about that like affecting your admissions too much. Just make sure to submit your official transcripts to us.

My chat support. They're doing such a great job answering all these questions. There's not a lot for me to say a talk about out loud.

Where do I send official transcripts to so you are going to be sending official transcripts over to undergraduate admissions? And when I'm going to go ahead and do is grab you that address another resource is to submit those transcripts electronically online, which will also go ahead and post for you.

Here so one second let me pull that information up for you.

Alright, so here is the link.

For your transcript and your test scores, and then if you decide to go ahead and send it to us.

The information is also on the website as well, but if you decide to send a paper copy, maybe your Community College only offers that, then you can send that to us via snail Mail. That is a thing as well.

Alright, so another question that we have is how safe is campus at night? Are there good safety resources available on campus so for UC Davis? I would say given that we are a college town, we are. We tend to be, you know, on the safer side, Davis is known to be a very very safe city as well. Obviously with any place that you're at at night time you just want to be more aware.

Of of any environment that you're in, I would say just practicing. You know your typical safety protocols, right? We have a lot of different safety services that are available on campus, So what will go ahead and do is also.

Send provide a link.

For our students.

We have the warn me alert service, which I would highly encourage our students to sign up for, because this gives you an alert via email or via your via text message to let you know anything that's going on on campus.

OK, so if I take summer classes at Community College without transfer the credit, I believe I answered that earlier. But yes, if you take summer classes, it will transfer as long as it's UC transferable. So you'll just want to make sure through assist.org if it pops up then it is. You see transferable where you're going to go ahead and do. Submit your official transcripts to us so that we can add that credit on the back end.

Right, Tina has a question, how easy it is it to get a parking spot slash permit at the green? So that would be a question I would probably ask the green on their website. It does say that parking is an additional cost, so its availability is not guaranteed. So obviously the earlier that you submit your application, the higher chance that you have a beginning a parking spot. But I would definitely encourage for you to contact the green and find more information that way.

OK, great, so you have a question about your incoming transfer for molecular and medical microbiology. This semester's been rough. You and you think that you might be getting a C in organic chemistry. So for any students, if your major is selective and you're not sure if that class is going to affect you, I think from molecular and medical microbiology okm is not required.

What causes the classes that you need? It would be the Calc series, the Chem series, and the Bio series. So Kim and you get to see. As long as your GPA maintains above a 2.8, you're going to be fine. 'cause okm is not required for admissions.

In terms of it negatively impacting your Graduate School applications, that's not really for us to say because you know we're in undergraduate admissions, so that might be something that you want to ask. Any graduate schools that you're interested in?

So Kendall you have a question, is the green exclusively for transfer students? Yes, our transfer student population is about 1005 students. But yes, this is a living facility primarily for our transfer students.

And so the different types of bedrooms that they have available are single and double and then also studio apartments too, if that's something you're interested in.

Alright, thanks Sandy for posting the link about transfer apartments.

OK, so while we wait for some more questions to come in, I'm going to pull up our events for tomorrow, which is our transfer support. So let me see if I can go ahead and share my screen. I'm only working from one screen right now so it's a little.

Difficult, but let's see, I'm going to do my best. Alright, so share screen.

There we go.

So.

Alright, so you guys can take a look right here. For Wednesday I thought today was Wednesday for some reason, but you can see all the different events that will have tomorrow.

So things to know about financial aid, housing and dining. Since we have so many questions about housing, I think this is going to be a great event for those folks who are interested in learning more about housing and dining orientation and what that's going to look like. Creating your transfer network. That is something that's really, really important for our students is to really build a community. Once you're at UC Davis so that you feel supported.

So I will go ahead and post that in our chat.

Then I'll go ahead and stop sharing my screen.

So now you're saying that you're having trouble accessing the housing portal. You can access the application after you submit your Sr, so not sure if you done that yet. But if you are having any issues, I would probably. I would advise you to contact the housing Department.

If you are having issues with that.

OK Melanie, so you have a question.

You attended the Trees trade school that has since closed down. How do I go about sending my official transcripts at the school no longer exists, so it would obviously depend on what that school is. If you reported it on your application as well because we need to make sure that it's an accredited trade school.

For the most part, even if the school has closed down, the transcripts are available through another organization. So what I would recommend Melanie is if you could actually email one of us, I'll put. I'll put my email in the chat and then you can go ahead and contact us and let us know so we can take a look, but for the most part we have worked with some schools where the schools are. We've worked with some students where the campuses have closed down.

And then yeah, again, like the transcripts were offered through another company.

So Friday you have a question. If you have been selected for verification, the deadline is May 15th. How would we know if we how would we check if we've been selected for verification? So you should be getting an alert through email or through your mind nations portal that you have been selected for verification.

Pretty so as long as we haven't received anything stating that we need to send in a verification, then we don't necessarily have to do anything right? Yeah, so if you didn't get anything, that means that you've completed your financial aid. Your FASA FASA application correctly. So don't you worry about that. But definitely check your spam folder. Whichever email address you used to sign up for.

Faster just to make sure that you didn't get anything.

So Samir, when is the deadline to completing our my towards requirements? All those deadlines are posted on the portal, so make sure to log into my missions. And then you're my awards so that you can see the specific deadlines for that.

OK, so on my missions currently there's only one place that we can submit our transcripts and we should use that to report our transcripts with our spring grades included. But what about our summer grades? How should we report those? Is there going to be another window for that great question so?

When it comes to providing an academic update through my admissions, what happens is that you can only submit 11 update at this time before we have to process it, and then we have to send you a verification email saying like, oh, you know like congratulations on your spring grades or blah blah blah. So once you have your spring summer grades and you've received that first email from us, if you submitted your spring update, then that's when you can go ahead and submit your summer summer classes as well to us.

When do we start signing up for housing is a first come first serve, so once you submit your sirp, that's when you would be able to.

That's when you would be able to fill out the housing form through my admissions.

Alright, no you have a great question. You're a transfer student into the College of Engineering starting in the fall. Once as soon as that I can get academic advising. And how can I request advising so that's going to be during orientation. So once you submit your SRL, pull up that page again. But for orientation is when you first have to go through Aggie 101 and then you can do your advising with a advisor.

From your college and then they'll work with you on what classes you should go ahead and take.

And that is going to be in the summer. So just be sure that once you sirp that you go ahead and check the deadlines for when orientation can start.

Bing Sandefer posting the orientation dates and the deadlines in the chat.

OK is UC Davis requiring students to take the covid vaccine because I know CSU are requesting students to take the vaccine so it is required by students will not be held to any holds for it. And you're also not required to.

To provide your vaccine information, however, that information is going to be very important for campus decision making regarding return to in person, instruction, research, and other campus activities. So obviously it is encouraged, but you're not going to have any consequences if you do, you don't take it or you don't report it.

And it is a UC wide statement to require the vaccine, not just UC Davis. So if you decide to attend another UC campus, just know that it is required.

And if you do decide to report your COVID-19 vaccine, please do that through the healthy messaging portal and then you can go ahead and provide us your vaccination dates and then also which vaccine you ended up getting as well.

And then not another thing Carlos regarding the vaccine. If you can't get it ahead of time, you can also get it on campus for free through the Student Health Center when you arrive on campus.

One thing we would also encourages by a student stay updated regarding any campus ready plans. So if you can go through our University of California newsletter, you'll definitely get more information about each of the campuses and what they propose. So, for example, here's one where the UC encouraged the COVID-19 vaccinations, so you can definitely take a look at that and then also, the website has a lot of other interests.

Not not interesting, but important updates for our students who are looking to transfer in for the fall.

OK, so we have about 3 minutes left.

We have so many so many great questions, a lot of housing questions. So again, if that is something you want, kind of, more specific information. Definitely check out our event tomorrow where there is going to be an event regarding housing, so we highly encourage that you attend that. If you didn't get your question fully answered today.

Alright, thanks Bianca, she just posted a link to our Aggie experience live for this week so definitely check out that link to find out more events relevant to UC Davis and what we have to offer.

And I believe this is being recorded, so after this event you should be emailed a link to the recording. If there was just any information you wanted to hear again if you wanted to see my face again.

Yeah, you will assume so. I'll be giving a link to this particular presentation in their email.

Alright thanks so much everyone. We are at 649 right now. Thank you all so much. Yes thank you all so much for coming really really great questions. We hope that this may help some of you guys figure out some answers to your questions and hopefully you're going to sirf to Davis 'cause I think it's personally I think it's a really, really great campus. We have a lot of different resources for students.

Also known as the Nice campus, so if that's something to help convince you to come to Davis, I think that would be great.

Other than that, hopefully everyone has a good rest of the night and have a good dinner. And yeah, we'll be looking forward to seeing you at our other events. For Aggie experience live. Thank you all so much.

Bye.