You're Admitted! Now What? with Mitsuko Leonard - Hawaii

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Hi folks, I hope you can hear me. OK, uh, looks like we've got everyone joining us nicely. Thank you. My name is Mitsuko Leonard. I'm the director of recruitment for UC Davis and I'm thrilled that you're here with me this evening. I wasn't sure how many people would show, so I appreciate you being here. It's so great to see you.

Again, I I cannot stress enough how glad I am to see you here. Typically I would be in hoi right now. I would be meeting with you hopefully in your parents and being able to chat with you about all the different reasons why you see Davis might be a good fit for you.

Here we are. It's a very different world that we're living in right now. A man. I know that many of you are probably, you know, attending classes from home or socially distancing. And all the things that we're doing here in California too. So while I know that it's not the most ideal situation, I'm just glad to be connected with you this evening. So thank you for being here. My job in tells basically going out into the world and recruiting students and then coming home and reading all the applications. This is the.

Best part of my job because I get to talk to all the students who actually got admitted and to tell you about all the different reasons why you see Davis might be a great fit for you. So first just a bit of housekeeping. I just want to make sure that we all know what's going on. In this webinar. The idea is to keep it pretty short. To be honest, it's about 15 minutes or less. You can time me and let me know if I'm going over. In fact, why don't you let me know if you can hear me? OK by putting into the chat box there that you see on the left hand side.

Maybe type in the name of the school that you're graduating from this year.

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Awesome you guys. OK so you can hear me. This is what we're gonna do. I'm gonna plow through these webinars slides. They're pretty interesting, but not near as interesting as all of your questions, so I want to make sure we have the bulk the lion's share of all the time that we have together tonight to make sure that you get your questions answered.

So without too much more of a do, let's move along.

So what I really like to do? Uh, when I'm talking to students during recruitment, is talk about the idea of fit right when we're admitting students like you. We looked at your application and we saw that you have interests and talents, personality, and of course, your academics. All these things were so amazing that were like, yeah, this student is going to be an amazing addition to UC Davis. There going to be a great fit. Now you are in this wonderful situation.

Where you've probably been admitted to many amazing schools, UC Davis is not it. Which means you're going to find yourself in that spot where you have to figure out in a world of Corona, how to decide which campus is the best fit for you without actually having the opportunity to visit. So I'm going to share with you some of the most popular reasons why Aggies love calling you CD of his home now. If any of these reasons resonate with you.

Then I would say it's a good way to measure your own idea of fit, and even in a time where you're not able to come to our campus to visit. If these reasons resonate with you, then I'm going to encourage you to learn more. Take your time, get to know our students and and really keep digging into why UC Davis might be a good fit for you.

One of the first aspects of fit that I usually talk to students about is environment, and so without too much surprise our campuses basically V reason why Aggies love calling. You see Davis home.

You probably know where we are. Uhm, basically this slide is not just to show you where we are, but also to highlight all the access that you have. Two things like beautiful cities in San Francisco and Sacramento, our state capital and of course Lake Tahoe where you can go skiing and snowboarding. You can enjoy the Lake during the summer months. There's just a lot of access when you're living in the town of Davis on campus.

But probably if I were to predict as a first year student graduating from high school, one of the most exciting things that you're thinking about is where you're going to live and where you're going to live is probably going to be on campus.

Now you're not actually required to live on campus when you're here with us at UC Davis, but to be honest, more than 95 I'm going to say about 98% of our first year students will actually take advantage of our housing guarantee. That guarantee covers you for two full years, and while I say it's not required, I really do encourage it, because this is where you're going to meet your best friends. These are the people that you're going to know for the rest of your life living on campus.

Um is really going to help you center yourself, especially when you remember that you see Davis is really the largest UC campus we have over 5000 acres. That means a lot of opportunity to get lost. So if you know this is home base, living in a residence Hall with your very best friends, you don't have to worry about who's going to pay the Internet bill who's going to be the electricity bill? Who's going to do the dishes, or who is going to cook. And to be honest, are dining Commons.

Are kind of a big deal. You have access to what's called the dining Commons or DCS when you live on campus in the food. Here is absolutely amazing. There's just so much variety they really do. Consider it lots and lots of dietary needs and concerns, and what I really like best about the dining Commons. OK, first of all, the offer discounts for staff and faculty, and you know, I'm taking advantage of that. But more than that, I would say the fact that the students are actually preparing the food.

Using food items that other students have actually grown, and then the students who consume them have lots and lots of educational opportunities by understanding where their food is coming from and what the nutritional value of everything is. I mean, it really is kind of the full circle. The full life cycle of food and it is something we're very very proud of here at UC Davis. Now that doesn't mean you're always going to eat at the dining Commons. Clearly when you've got to campus as big as ours, you're not always going to make it.

Talk to your dining comments to have lunch, but you can grab a quick bite to eat. The main place to do so would be at the coffee house, which is within our memorial union, and it's completely again completely student run and it offers so many options when you're thinking about food, then there's the silo on the South side of the campus where there's of course like a crape stand and things like that. But really, the main draw there is what you're seeing in the top right.

Corner the food trucks. They change up pretty regularly, so I'm just trying to figure out what might be. There is kind of a fun challenge now. Remember how I was all casual about food being grown on our campus? It's not. It's really not that typical. It is very much a UC Davis thing that we have a student farm now. What makes this student farm special beyond the fact that it does supply?

A lot of food to our dining Commons is the fact that the students that are growing food there are learning about sustainable food systems while also teaching other youth in the area about agriculture and healthy eating. And the harvest isn't sure just what the DCS but is also shared with the student pantry so that any student off campus on campus wherever can access fresh, seasonal produce. I didn't even understand what seasonal produce was until I was here at Davis.

Now here's the thing with you. See Davis, you'll probably see a theme, and that theme is the fact that students are very much involved. Students care for students, they care for their own campus. They really take care of each other. The involvement here is very, very strong, and that kind of takes me to the next reason why students love calling. You see Davis home. It's the experience that you're going to get both inside and outside of the classroom.

Now, as students coming from Hawaii, I'm sure you appreciate a good environment. My can't promise the same kind of weather as you're going to get in Hawaii, but we do have fantastic weather and that means a lot of the experiences that students really enjoy are going to be happening outside of the classroom. Here on the left, you'll see a picture of a student taking one of our very popular tractor driving courses, and when I say popular, I mean anyone, anyone from Alec a history major to an engineering major can take this class.

And they do, um, we have over A.

100 apartments on campus and so that means you have lots of unique experiences an it really doesn't matter what your major is. You're going to learn something outside of whatever your realm or your major of study is on the right hand side, you'll see what's it's actually a chemical engineering class, but it's a chemical engineering class in coffee and it's all about brewing tasting an really, figuring out how to do coffee, right? It is again another.

Very popular class on campus. I know some of our own staff like to go and drop in on the labs for selfish reasons I'm sure.

And of course, keeping that theme of experience outside of class. We also really value our experience outside of the town of Davis. UC Davis actually has the most extensive study abroad program within the UC system.

As well, we have medical schools in the medical school in Sacramento where students can do internships. You have access to the UC Sacramento program if you're interested in political science or policymaking. We also have a really unique situation with our Bodega Bay Marine lab. We are land bound. We're about 2 hours away from the ocean and yet you could and should think about taking classes at the Bodega Bay Marine Lab where you can.

Live on the ocean for a term or two day classes in a living lab and you can see pictures of that and the bottom left.

UC Davis also has lots and lots of study abroad programs like I mentioned before and that means programs not just in over 40 countries, but really no brag we actually have a study abroad program in Antarctica that means Seven continents covered by UC Davis.

When you're here, we understand that you're not thinking about just what you're going to do for that year or the year after year. Thinking about how to build up your resume and get that amazing job or Graduate School. So when you're thinking about all those things that you're going to do after the four years here, we want to make sure that you're learning as much as you can. Or student government is a great place for you to learn how to manage one of the biggest budgets and college student government in the US.

Uhm, you can work in one of our barn residents programs where you actually live with animals in a barn and take care of your rent too.

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The jobs on campus are the very best jobs that you can get the the people who employ you understand that your first in most important job is to be here as a student. So there super flexible with your time, your schedule and making sure that you're having access to the time that you need to be a good student while at the same time gaining all the experience. It's going to really help you with your resume. We have an internship and Career Center that really helps you get in touch with over 10,000 internships.

Every year it's one of the biggest in the United States.

Now with all that, we have to acknowledge that there's a lot going on, and so the third reason why UC Davis Aggies love being here is that we really do take care of the whole student.

We value your physical, mental, your emotional health and beyond that we do also believe in the health of the environment. We understand that the impact of the the health of the environment has on you and me in the community. So while we're trying to take care of you as a whole at the same time, we're thinking about what is our impact here in California. Of course, in the United States and globally as well. So here you have.

An image of the typical mode of transportation here in Davis, which is by bicycle.

We are very very fond of our two wheels. It's a great way to get fresh air and get some exercise. An really just get from door to door in record time.

But beyond that, beyond just cycling we have makes, we make sure that our students have access to our activities and Recreation Center. We have a fully loaded gym that has all the exercise classes that brought climbing wall the basketball and racquetball courts, and all of those types of things. We want to make sure that students have access to yoga throughout the year. Outdoor yoga is very, very popular here. And of course, the student health and Wellness Center combined.

With our counseling services, allows holistic care for our students. We offer urgent care, counseling and of course nutrition and even cooking classes. So when we talk about caring for the whole student, we really do mean the entire student.

In a nice example of where we start to really focus or students on the environment as well as well as the student is here in the Arboretum. This is really top ranked place for our students to take naps or to study or get together with their study buddies and friends.

It's not just a nice place to relax, it's actually are living outdoor laboratory where classes in entomology or mechanical engineering will actually stroll past other classes in art studio or drama. And they're all sharing this space in. The space is about a 3 1/2 mile loop.

All throughout campus you're going to find a lot of green space, but this by far, with its red Redwood, Redwood Grove, and the Lake is definitely one of the most popular spaces on campus.

And Justice every in any Aggie really does enjoy the Arboretum and all of our green spaces around campus. I think it's really important to note that Aggies share an identity of being green across campus. It's understood that it takes all of us to make real changes. Anwil rankings are really nice and I'll point out that we kind of have a good one there. It really isn't about just the rankings, it's about the tangible impacts that we're making. So we're getting really much more involved in renewable energy.

Um, we feed our campus with local ingredients in compost. Almost everything. The campus as a whole has committed to reducing our paper years. And of course our commitment to carbon neutral future is a very solid.

I would say shared identity across campus. It's become part of our DNA.

And that leads me to our spirit. Now sometimes we can, you know, kind of. I don't know, equate spirit to school spirit athletics, and we definitely have that we have over 20 NCAA Division, One athletic teams. The newest two would be our equestrian team and are beach volleyball team. But beyond that I would say what we see in the spirit of our campus spills into our small town. That kind of gives us a bit of a hug.

Everyday we are a big campus surrounded by a small town. That spirit comes from the town that supports you as a student there here to making sure that your life here for the four years of earning your bachelors degree is comfortable, you're going to find entertainment restaurants being in such a small college town really does mean that the town celebrates you and you get to celebrate the town.

The farmers market is really a collaboration between both the town and the campus, and there really is a very strong commitment both ways.

Which leads me to the fifth reason why UC Davis Aggies just adore being here. It is that sense of community. The most common thing you'll hear students talk about is the sense of community that they feel here, I would say.

Even strangers.

You know, people don't even really never met before. If you happen to glance at them, they will smile and they'll say hi. And if you take even 3 minutes looking like you're lost, someone will stop and offer you help in Finding Your way. Um, for me it was a little bit tricky to understand how that worked at first because I came from a larger city and I felt like wait, why are you saying hi to me? do I know you and I just forgot your face? It turns out it's just everyone's friendly like that.

And so, keeping that in mind, your physical space is like a residence halls or international student center and our student Community Center that we offer students opportunities to get together and really connect. But were big campus with a lot of students. So sometimes it can be a little bit tricky for those of us who might consider ourselves to be a little bit more introverted. And we have a lot of programming in campus groups for students to be able to find their space. There's over 800 clubs, lots of employment opportunities, of course.

Internship and really this is your opportunity. As a University student to try to figure out what you might be interested in, but you never knew that you thought you might be interested in. This is where you get to be. Who you just decide you're going to be, and so it's a really exciting time.

And with that I cannot.

Gas enough that there really is a place for you here. This is a home for everyone. The Euses all have very different personalities. Were all sisters in the same family? UC Davis is definitely the campus where we are committed to being welcoming. We are very friendly to each other. We're competitive with ourselves, but collaborative with each other.

And with that said.

I'm going to show you some deadlines that's boring, but soak it in real quick.

And this is where I tell you.

You guys have gone through a lot. You have applied to some amazing competitive schools.

And you've gotten in, so that part is done. Good job.

I'm thrilled.

Relax, take your time. You have some time. You probably have some time at home. You probably have some time with family and they're all going to have some opinions, and that's OK too.

It's OK to take it all in reach out to us, reach out to us through this. Ask an advisor.

You can email me directly. You have my WhatsApp my phone number right there. It's my WhatsApp number. In fact, to be honest, I'm not really sure how.

Students are are engaging with WhatsApp, but just in case you are, I even created ahoy group for wats app. So you know take out your phone. You got a minute or two to scan that. Cue our code and join the group chat. I think that there's a lot to gain from asking questions in a group because your questions are probably somebody elses questions too. Yeah and so being able to help other people out being the voice of those who might be a little bit shy or just just being the one that says hey I have a question.

Then somebody else saying, Yeah me too. That makes a huge difference. So please do join the chat if you are a WhatsApp kind of person. If you're not, that's OK. You've got my phone number now and you can just text me. That's cool too. Or email if if you're old school like I am, that's fine.

But let's open it up to your questions.

Any kind of questions are free range. Ask me anything.

Don't hold back.

It looks like I've answered everything, or maybe everyone's got their phones out in scanning the QR code.

OK, awesome, thanks for, thanks, thanks thanks thanks for uhm. OK we've got a couple questions about financial aid.

So here's the thing, with financial aid. Typically here at UC Davis we try to get the financial aid packages out as soon as possible. Unfortunately with the COVID-19 situation, we've been rather late to to get the financial aid packages released, I would say UC Davis. We will have those packages all set and ready to go no later than the end of this week.

So if you don't hear from financial aid and years like hey what's up? I really, you know, whatever text me and I will get you no more answers for you. But here is a bit of an inside tip.

Um sometime soon, as will ask about typical financial aid awards, there really isn't a typical award, especially for nonresident students. Unfortunately, because we're a public school, we don't have a lot of aid like scholarships for our non resident students. We do have some merit based scholarships, they're just not going to be need based scholarships now. Here's a tip for those larger.

Scott, the merit based scholarships, those larger ones. We typically award the large ones right at the point of admission because we under sort like close right like by the end of this week because we understand that those larger.

Scholarships will really help you make your decision.

However, after students have said yes during the summer, when we understand what our incoming class really looks like, there may be other smaller scholarships. Maybe so when I say large scholarship, I mean like 7000 and up. When I say smaller scholarships, I mean like 300 and up.

So there's large, those larger ones. We tried to give to you early before the deadline to say yes to UC Davis. The smaller ones we may give you throughout the summer, and they may range from like 300 to two or three 1000 and they can be stacked. In other words, you can combine them all.

But uhm, basically what that means is if you're relying on a scholarship to to be able to say yes to UC Davis.

Because just the finances are so expensive and I completely acknowledge that as a nonresident student it is very expensive then I would say you're going to want to reconsider the idea of fit. There are lots of different ways that you can ultimately end up at UC Davis and not have to pay that same amount. You know one way would be as a transfer student going into a Community College for two years at a much lower tuition rate. Or if you know in most of us, do know that.

Just getting a bachelors degree is not the game anymore, right? You're gonna keep going. You can do a bachelors degree for example in Hawaii and then do your Masters degree or your PhD at UC Davis. So there's lots of different ways. And while I work for UC Davis and I adore UC Davis I believe. And what we are offering is an amazing education experience. I would never ever encourage a student or their family to make themselves feel financially.

Uncomfortable to come here because there are a lot of really good options out there that are going to be affordable to you. An are going to be a better experience just because it's affordable. You're not going to have the same anxiety over how you're going to pay for it or how do your future self is going to pay for it.

Um loans are absolutely an option. You know you're alone for students alone. For parents and things like that. But there's a certain level of comfort with loans as well, so I would encourage you to talk openly and candidly with your families an remember that your bachelors degree is just a vehicle as a vehicle to a job. It's a vehicle to a Masters or PhD. It's vehicle to vet school. It's.

Not the end all like you don't you don't wanna view it as the last thing. OK, now Speaking of that medicine, there was a question here.

About animal science and whether you know that is going to be beneficial, absolutely, here's the thing about vet Med right veterinary medicine or even medical school. Any of those professional schools you don't actually have to do a major that says pre anything. So for example, if you want to go into better any Medison, you don't have to call yourself prevent. It just happens to be that most students call themselves prevent because they're basically announcing to the world that they want to go to vet.

And that's fine.

But same with like. For example, if you're interested in law, you don't necessarily have to do a major in political science or history or or policy, you know, but you tend to an. Then you tend to call yourself pre law even though pre law or prevent or pre men are not actually majors.

Now whatever you decide to do, if you do veterinarian, Medison or nursing or medical school, we have what's called a pre professional health advising office. And that's a really good resource to have on campus. You don't have to go to a school that has a veterinary school to be able to get into veterinary school.

And that's the very truth. You can go anywhere and still get indefectible. What's nice about going to have a school that has a vet school is that you have a little more access, right? You have access to those animals you have access to veterinary medical professors you have access to the teaching hospital, so you know if you're thinking about, for example, Colorado State or UC Davis. We both have veterinary teaching hospitals on campus. That just means you have more access to those teaching hours.

Or the animal hours that you need to ultimately get to vet school.

Bottom line, you could get those by going to, UH, an going to the local vet and saying, hey let me work for you. And if they say yes, you'll still get those hours, so there are lots of different ways to do it. Just some are a little bit more straightforward and at UC Davis we have that pre professional health advising that really that really does help kind of move things along.

Kay, any other questions? I be credits OK impact yes there was a question that was provided to me during registration about impacted majors impacted majors basically means.

At the point of admission, at least for UC Davis, it means kind of like it's super super competitive to get into. So that would be basically any of the engineering majors, and I'm going to say a few of the bio science majors.

Manage Arella Conomiques. Things like that.

Now, that doesn't mean if you got into whatever major that you got into, it's going to be tough for you necessarily to change your major. You can absolutely. Yep, Yep, Jayden, yes you can change your major. How that works is after your first quarter on campus. Here's the thing. I would say if you already know right now you want to change your major during your first quarter, you should go and visit the major advisor for the major you're planning to change into, right?

And so it's basically a conversation. Hey, I'm here as a manageable economics student. I'm really interested in studio art. Let's say OK, and then they'll be like great next term, you know, just just do well on this term. Next term will switch you over. Others might be like, OK, you want computer science. I understand that, but I need you to slow your roll a little bit and take these classes on this list, and basically by taking those classes, you're saying, yeah, I understand what computer science or

Engineering is an I'm going to do well enough in these classes so that I can change from manager economics to engineering. But yeah, it's it's pretty straightforward. Changing majors happens all the time I would say that most of our students will change their major at least two times.

Um, and for the other question about IB credits, we do transfer credit for AP.

For an for IB.

For AP, we transfer anywhere from four quarter units to 8 quarter units per AP exam.

And for IB, if you earn the diploma to 30 point diploma, we will transfer 30 quarter units, which is about two quarters worth of classes.

Here's something I didn't know when I was in your situation long time ago. You can tell by my intro music that I've I'm a little bit older than you, but I didn't understand how credits worked and here's how they are. You probably already know I. I'm just going to say it out loud just in case, but for.

Every academic year we want you to take about 45.

Quarter units, that's 15 units per term. We have three terms why they're called quarters, I don't know, but we have three of them, so fall, winter and spring 15 units each. That basically means for every week you're going to be sitting in a lecture or a class for about 15 hours. So let's say, for example, you're taking a chemistry class for four units. That means you've got 4.

Hours of lecture every week.

And lots of students when they start doing that math or like what? 15 hours? A week? That's easy because right now I mean if it were a normal world, you know you're sitting in class and a physical space maybe like 30 five hours each week.

But what you want to remember is that for every hour you're in a lecture, you're doing about 2 hours of prep in homework, so you know 15 hours basically means 15 hours in class and then 30 to 45. You know doing your homework, studying, preparing projects, and things like that?

So.

Getting those units from IB is helpful, and so is EP, but it's not necessarily to be able to graduate early. I would say getting those credits is nice because it gives you a little more wiggle room to do internships to study abroad to maybe get a job that takes a few more hours than you know. Normally you would be able to afford, so keep that in mind.

Anyone interested in talking about?

Storms are yeah OK, so dorms dorms are what we call residence halls in our campus and our residence halls.

Are there's not one that's going to be better? What's always, ask is which one is the best one. I would say that depending on your major, there's going to be some you know residence halls that are going to be closer to your classes, and that's going to be nice because you'll be able to stumble into class in your pajamas and won't be terribly late.

But in the end, it's all about the people are going to be surrounded by an. The amenities are going to be pretty standard, an regular for everybody, so I wouldn't worry about that. But wherever you end up, you're going to find the very best friends that you've ever had the residence halls. Students are able to. If, for example, you happen to already know somebody, or maybe you meet somebody on Instagram or you eat, meet somebody on Facebook that you click with. Or maybe somehow you meet somebody on the hoi Aggies.

2424 group chat.

Then you can list each others names on the housing application and they will pair you up and you'll be able to stay with each other. Most of the residence halls are triples, they have doubles and they even have singles, but typically what I tell students is just expect to be in a triple.

If you are really hoping for a single and you have real good reasons you're going to want to make sure that outlined very clearly on that application, because they are, you know, such a commodity, so you're going to want to keep that in mind. But to be honest, I mean you're going to learn so much about yourself as a person, your life lessons, and having to deal with other people who come from different backgrounds, so I think it's a fantastic opportunity to live in a triple or a double.

OK, let's see. We have a question. If someone was to go to another UC school like Merced because they have the we tuition or a California college, how's the transfer rate to UC Davis? That's a fantastic question. I'm going to hit approve so that everyone can see this question because I really like this question. Thank you.

Here's how it works now. Wowie is fantastic, and for those of you who don't know what Willie is, uhm, I don't know what it stands for, but the basic gist of it is, like Western Universe, I don't know. It doesn't matter. The Gist of it is if you're coming from the from Hawaii, for example, and going to a wowie school like UC Merced, that means your tuition is 1 1/2 times the in state tuition.

Of California, so it makes it much more affordable and you're going to find Louie schools in California in Washington, Oregon, and I think Nevada. 2 right. Jayden, I'm going to let you tell me, but yeah, you can absolutely go to Merced an and pay that lower tuition. And if at some point you want to transfer, you can apply now the difference between applying for transfer between a.

You see whether it's UC Merced or UC Berkeley, UCLA to UC Davis versus coming in from a Community College is priority.

The priority always always goes to the California Community College. It's such a priority for us that California community colleges get in first that we have what's called the transfer admission guarantee and basically that is a contract that we draw up for students after their first year at a Community College in California. We say great, you look like you're doing really well and we trust that you're going to continue doing well, so we're going to hold a seat for you.

In the major of your choice, and you're going to keep doing these classes, you're going to keep doing well and will see you in another year. So in the end it's like a transfer pathway. Two years at the Community College at a much lower tuition, and then two years at UC Davis and you graduate with a UC Davis degree.

Now you could do that with UC Merced as well. The only tricky part there is that because you're going to use your going to University, you have a lower priority. In other words, we will admit as many of those California Community College students as we can before we go and dip into any of the other uses. Whether it's Berkeley, allay or Merced.

Because the bottom line is, if you don't get in from UC Merced, the worst situation you're going to find yourself in is now you will stay at Merced and finish your bachelors degree, so not a bad thing. It's a fantastic campus and you're still going to get a bachelors degree.

But if we don't admit that Community College student. Then there's nothing to be done right. They can't earn a bachelors degree or Community College and that's why there's such a priority so if Davis really is. Your ultimate goal to earn your bachelors degree, but tuition is a concern. Then I would say really consider the idea of going to a Community College here in California, it could be.

Yeah, Sacramento City College just 20 minutes away here in town. In Davis we have a Sacramento City College campus. Like an annex here so you could still live in Davis.

Experience that small college tile town lifestyle and pay such a fraction of the tuition and still, you know, transfer after two years and get that UC Davis degree.

Let's see.

Ah, yes, Jayden, that's right. Most western states, OK, how do students perform after their undergraduate students? They do fantastic I would say, gosh, I can't remember the I have you caught me off guard, Jasmine.

Most of our students, quite frankly, will go on to a Masters or PhD or some type of professional school and the last time I really paid attention to the statistics, it was something like 60% of our students will end up in their first or second choice of school. You know whether it's like a vet, school, medical school, Graduate School, law school, etc. The bulk of them do that, but just like you know.

How involved you had to be as a high school student to be able to get into some place like UC Davis? Alot of what happens after you graduate from your bachelors degree depends on what you're doing during your bachelors degree and that's where we really do shine. We do have a lot of opportunities. There are internship and Career Center are undergraduate Research Center.

We have lots and lots of our opportunities for students to get involved, but we're big campus, right? We're like about, I wanna see undergraduate students were about 29 thousand students were huge, which means no one's going to come knocking on your door with a list of options, right? It's not going to be a menu. It really is about knowing where your resources are and making sure you go after it. So that's kind of why I I really do want to start creating these.

Communities, even before you say yes, I mean, I guess what I'm trying to say is.

Get to know people who are in the same situation as you are still trying to decide right joining a group chat, helping each other. Figure out the right questions to ask. Getting those questions at answered is really important. The same skills that you are developing now developing that community is going to be very helpful for you when you were a student, wherever you end up because that community building that's also called networking right? And so knowing your faculty.

Knowing that they are available to you as they are at UC Davis that they have office hours and they're just waiting for you to come see them. That is going to be very helpful to you, right? Even if you decide not to go to vet school, medical school law school, close by all of your faculty have come from somewhere or someplace that they can recommend, and so they will be the people who are writing your letters of recommendation. There are the ones that are offering you research opportunities.

In their living labs.

Here's what's interesting to know, and I didn't always know this, especially when I was in your situation many years ago. The difference between a California State University and a University of California is really about the philosophy. OK, so a California State University is very strong with teaching their very practical.

So you're going to find a lot of very practical majors, as well as more theoretical math majors. the U CS we share a philosophy in research, teaching, and service. Those three things, all UC campuses value as core.

So that means the faculty that are hired at any of the UC campuses. They're not required just to teach, right? They are also required to do research, and that's that's the truth. Whether you're an anthropology faculty or a music faculty history, they're all required to do research. What that translates to for you as a student is as an undergraduate student. Is that everything that you're learning?

Is living knowledge. It's not something that was taught to them years ago that they are now teaching to you. It's things that they are learning in a real life. Set in like a lab or in the field that they're bringing into the classroom or it bringing you to the field or into a lab to teach you. So that means there's a lot of work to be done.

That also translates into with all that work. They need help and nothing is more lovely to a faculty person than a young undergrad who is willing to help with their research. That means for you experience, that means resume building. That means opportunities to really grow as a professional. You'll learn so much in your interactions with students or I'm sorry with the faculty.

OK, any other questions?

And we've got a question about adjusting to campus Life OK, so we have we're big school. We're probably going to have. If all goes well in the fall, we're going to have about 6000 students entering his first year students.

I can be really overwhelming. I would imagine. I mean I I find it overwhelming. There's something called the first year AGI experience and that is the campuses way of some kind of grouping students and in much smaller groups so that you have a cohort of students that that you share some type of interest with. And this is something that you get to decide what you're interested in, and you sign up for different groups based on what you want to learn more about. Or maybe something you already know a lot about.

And you can participate in.

We have orientation that happens the week before classes begin. Now it used to be the orientation will happen in little this summer, but by the time you learn anything it's time to go home again and then by the time you get back to the campus you would forget most of what happened. So orientation now is literally the week before and this is an opportunity for you to kind of get your Bering Strait to meet your new friends. Meet your advisors. Meet your.

Hum Peer Advisors as well. So it is a fantastic, organized way to really get your Bering Strait.

Uhm, and then within the colleges, each of them will have smaller cohorts as well. So again, small classes anywhere from 50 to maybe 75. Group people in a group to learn things that are very particular to your college or even to your major. So it does allow you to get to know each other and a smaller group setting and cohorts are nice because then you move along with in the same group, so you get to develop those relationships over.

A period of time rather than just that one term. Another thing that kind of brings me brings to mind is the idea that we are 1/4 school now. A quarter school means OK, let me back up. You're probably I think I heard, measured in Punahou. Although schools semester schools are two terms right? And you've got 15 to 16 weeks each.

Quarter schools are 10 weeks, 10 weeks and then you got finals. So that means in the end you have the same. You know about 30 weeks of classes plus exams, but ten weeks is really fast. You can't get sick, you can't get lazy. You really gotta be on your game to be able to do really well. You know, just when you get your feet under you, it's like, surprise midterms.

So it's gonna be fast, but many of her students really like the quarter system because there's no time to get bored. There's there's just this fast paced fun about it right like you're going to get through it. It is a Sprint, but at the end of the Sprint. You have winter break, or you have spring break. So there's going to be moments where you're really going to be able to relax. But for those ten weeks. You're running downhill and just hoping your legs don't give out.

Um, any other questions?

Examples of clubs and communities. Yes, we have, as I mentioned, over 800.

Uh.

What's interesting is I've been working with UC Davis. Now I'm gonna say almost 18 years and in the beginning it was like we have almost 300 clubs. Now we're over 800.

Um, and I'm going to send to you.

A list of all 800.

Of those clubs.

Um really it's it's pretty amazing what they do in October. The first so you know every October. They set up in the quad. A big fair. Just imagine kind of like the college fair that you might have attended over at the Hawaii Convention Center is a big fair where all the clubs come out and they just kind of give you information and hand out pretty cool swag. You can take a look. You know what they got to offer? What your

Interested in, there's a lot of opportunities to kind of just figure out what you've never even known that existed right. Also, if you want to join something like.

The way club on campus. You can absolutely do that. Many of our students do. There's an annual luau and the parents from home actually get very involved because they have to send over all of the fresh Flowers and the tea leaves and things like that. So it is a very active club, but it is very engaging like you have to be in it to win it, because right, there's not a whole lot of students from Hawaii to be able to keep it running. But there's a whole lot of support. There are a lot of students who are very interested.

They're just there to learn more about Hoi Uhm. Another thing I just want to show you I'm going to show you this slide we have in equestrian center now. Maybe you've never thought about writing a horse. Or maybe you've been a little bit curious, but you're like most just not my thing. I don't have access to that. We have an equestrian center so if you wanted to figure out, like, take lessons and learn how to ride horses, you could do that. If you want to volunteer with horses, you can do that. We have a rehabilitation center that students volunteer at.

It's very, very active.

Um?

We have this is that activities and Recreation Center that I was talking about is an indoor Sports Complex and it recently had a kind of like a rejuvenation renovation situation. So it's pretty cool. It's quite large with an indoor rock climbing wall, an indoor track and things like that, and this is where many of our students congregate. And of course in the in the warmer months, which you know, it's tends to stay pretty warm well into October.

Or Reckful is very very popular uhm?

There's a question about internships. Here is a list of some of the companies that are internship and Career Center has been successful in placing our students with now. What's nice about internships is.

The pad your resume absolutely, but they also many of our students will start an internship during their final year and before they even graduate, they will have a job at many of these places just waiting for them. Just like go ahead and graduate your desk is waiting for you. We have several walking tour guides working for admissions that have gotten jobs at. I want to say, Yeah, Genetec

And, uh, is Intel. Intel is listed here as well. Those two companies are relatively close to us and our biotech students and our computer science students have been snatched right up by these companies.

Let's see, do we have any other questions? We've got about 7 minutes left together.

Now it looks it looks pretty quiet unless someone's typing frantically in yelling at the screen.

Don't end it quite yet, because I'm still typing.

OK, let me show you one more thing. Um, I was talking to you about the living situation. The residence halls. what I really like that you see Davis is very well is just living, learning, shared interest, community and it's basically a situation where on your application for your residence halls. If you are interested in any specific type of.

Community that you want to be a part of. You can let us know on that application that basically means everyone on that floor is super keen on the same thing that you're interested in, so you know if you are part of the Honors Program, then you HP. If you are part of the LG BT QA plus community, the Rainbow community would be a fantastic option if you're really into music arts performance and you want to know that you can play your violin.

Pretty much anytime of night and no ones gonna complain that's your floor. It's a really nice way to connect with people who share your interests or for you to learn more about them, right? So, um.

You know, let's say for example, you are interested in Middle Eastern and North African South Asian culture, but you're just not familiar living on that floor. You're going to learn something, right? So there are a lot of students who will put themselves out of side of their own comfort level and join floors that they don't necessarily personally identify with, but just are very keen to learn more about.

You see, if I have any other slides that I didn't share with you, and if not, oh downtown. I can't express enough how much I love downtown, the farmers market, the picture of that you see on the bottom left corner is our Wednesday picnic in the park. It's in the it's in the large park that hosts the farmers market on Wednesday evenings as well as Saturday mornings, and it's a fantastic way to come out.

Enjoy live music. Some food trucks come out as well and of course the farmers market is there selling fresh food and people bring out blankets and just enjoy a picnic together. This is all extremely lovely, especially in our Corona lifestyle right now, where we're not able to do this, and I do look forward to a future when we're able to do this again and.

With that I mean I I can't express enough how much I appreciate you joining me again and and it would be lovely to have you be part of the UC Davis community.

In the mean time, again, if you have any questions, general questions, you can ask an advisor. If you want to ask me questions, you've got my email there and you've also got my phone number.

I understand that you see Davis is not going to be the perfect fit for everybody, and so if that's the case for you and you just want to bounce some ideas off of somebody, I'm your girl. I know a lot of other University rats and I know a lot of fantastic schools out there. And if you just need a name or a contact or just a little more information about other schools, I can help you out. The bottom line is, well, I absolutely do work for UC Davis. And Yep, they pay my mortgage.

I feel like my real job is to work for you as the student and finding your fit is the most important task that I have. And so if you're willing to put your trust in me, you are absolutely welcome to contact me.

Uh, with that looks like we've got about 3 minutes left, but since there aren't too many questions and seems like everyone's kind of done, enjoy your day off tomorrow. You guys. I know you're probably at home anyway, but there's something lovely about just taking a day where you're not checking your email and you don't have to worry about what your schools are trying to get at you, because technically tomorrow is a holiday, so enjoy it. Enjoy your family an don't forget to, I don't know.

Take some time out and really enjoy some.

Some air outside. Just remember 6 feet social distancing.