Admissions Presentation (For Prospective Transfers)

Hello everyone, welcome today's webinar. Today we will be going over the UCR admissions requirements in just a little bit of background about you. See are a little bit about myself. My name is Diana Medina. I am one of the transfer admissions counselors at UC Riverside. I actually was a UCR LM as well. I had the opportunity to attend UC Riverside as a transfer student, so it wasn't too long ago that I was just.

In the same.

Um stage of the transfer process that you were so hopefully I can help clear up any questions that you may have and you know let you know that you see are is definitely an attainable goal for you all up and we can go ahead and get started soon. I'm going to let a few more students joining in in the mean time I would like to let you all know that I do have Isaaq Malika. He is also or he is a current UCR transfer student.

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So again, can offer a lot of insight from a student perspective, but is also a student worker in the office of undergraduate admissions, so he will be helping me answer your questions in the chat, so feel free to throw in any questions that you have throughout the presentation, and then if I zich is not able to answer one of your questions, I will also make sure to stay on at the end an answer. Any pending questions that we may have.

So let's go ahead and get started.

OK, so we could sum up UC Riverside in just a couple of words. The words that both student and staff would pick would be prestigious, diverse, friendly research inclusive an accessible, so procedures because we are one of the 10 universities that make up the University of California system, which is, you know, while respected throughout the entire world, Ann is a number one public research institutions.

Diverse, we do hold really proud and close to her heart that we are one of the most diverse universities in the nation. So if you choose to come to UC Riverside, no matter what background you are, you should be able to find a community that you feel like you belong to.

Uh, friendly, uhm, I definitely got that feeling when I toured the campus, so hopefully you know once all of this, uhm.

Current pandemic situation that is happening if you get the chance to be able to visit UC Riverside I definitely would. It's really important that you.

Tour the schools that you're interested in attending, just so that you can get the feel of like what the environment is like at that campus at UCR. Personally, I think that most students are friendly and have like a community approach to the way they work the way they do research together and all of that.

So research again, we are a research University, So what that means is that every single one of our professors is currently working on some type of research an for you all students. That means that you get to be part of that, inclusive and accessible. We are known to be one of the most generous you sees in regards to financial aid, so again, is an iaccessible goal for you to attend. UC Riverside.

A little bit about where we are today. We have over 20 three 1900 students.

That does include both graduate an undergraduate students, which puts us at about a medium sized campus. So we are. I would like to say large enough to where you get that, uhm, you know. True University feeling of like attending a large campus but also not large enough to wear. It's overwhelming. And then you also still have, you know, good access to resources, opportunities, professors, and all of that. Do you have over 1173 faculty and that kind of put this us out of 21 to one?

Average student to faculty ratio. I do wanna uhm kind of distinguish between that. That doesn't mean that your classes are going to be like 21 UM students to one professor. Uhm, what this means is that, UM?

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That there are 21 faculty for each student. As transfer students you all will be coming in and you're going to be going straight into upper division coursework, so your classes will be smaller. But they do I also highly depend on what major you are part of. So for example, psychology is a really large major at UCR, so if you do come in as a transfer student, even if you are going into your upper division coursework, some of your classes might still be about 300 students.

Um, whereas if you're coming into the gender and sexuality studies major, it's still like prominent campus, but not as large. So you may find yourself in like a 20 to 30 student class. Also, the classes that tend to be on the larger NR general education classes and for you also transfer students. You're mostly coming in with your general education complete, so you can just expect to go straight into your major specific courses. Anna 100,000. Plus alumni changing the world for more than 1700 international students.

And from 88 different countries.

A little bit about academics and also our college system. So we are at UCR split up in 2 six different colleges, an one professional school, the Marlin and Rosemary Bourns College of engineering this.

School house is like our computer science or Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio Engineering. Any engineering major would be part of the Marlin Rosemary Bourns College of engineering. They are the smallest College of the six, but that is because it is highly selective and very prestigious as well. But even though they are the smallest college on campus, they do have the most research funding out of all the colleges. So with that kind of means for you as students, if you're coming into the College of engineering.

Is that there? Is it gonna be a great opportunity for you all to take part of research opportunities? Apply for grants and things like that?

The College of Humanities, Arts, and social Sciences is where you would find psychology, art, sociology, political science, English, music, art, dance, all the languages. It is the largest college on campus. What's really great about the College of Humanities is that it is and introduce most, if not all, the majors inside of the College of Humanities are interdisciplinary majors. Which means that you'll get to take classes from a lot of different disciplines across the campus.

The College of Natural Agricultural Sciences is where we would find our biology, chemistry, neuroscience, math majors all of our natural Sciences and.

They also have a lot of research funding like the Marlin and Rosemary Bourns College of engineering as well.

And both those colleges also offer a research opportunity. If you are admitted as a transfer student the summer prior to you beginning classes in the fall, you can apply to be part of their summer bridge to research is called where students are awarded a $5000 step into complete research in the summer, the Graduate School of Education have a school of public policy kind of work together, but the Graduate School of Education isn't really good.

Option for anyone that's interested into going into education. Whether that's you know being a teacher, being an administrator, or some type of educational leadership, they are also a really great kind of like transition way to transition into the Graduate School of education as a professional, either with like the school psychology program that teaching credentials, or anything like that, because some of the courses from the undergraduate program can be applied to the graduate programs as well.

School of Business. Um is great as well. They are recognized in the top ten um schools of business in the world, and we are the largest in the UC system.

And then last but not least is our School of Medicine that is the newest an opened up in recent years to address the need for positions within the Inland Empire. They do reserve a little bit close, a little close to half of the seats in the School of Medicine for UCR graduates. So what that means if you are attending UCR Ann, you are interested in attending the School of Medicine is that you'll be able to compete with a smaller pool of applicants. And if you were to

You know, not attend UCR and applied to the school of Madison. It is still very competitive to qualify for those programs, but you know that just kind of takes planning as a student for you to work with them ahead of time. And all of that. But there are very amazing opportunities that can come out of that.

Again, there are over 150 different undergraduate majors and minors. If you aren't interested in minoring, that is something that you can start thinking about as well.

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Display below that shows you all of the slides. OK, so getting back into it. Um, this slide here. Just highlight some of the very well known, respected and renowned faculty that we have here on campus. So one of my personal favourites is doctor Zande Liubomir ski. She is a professor and director of the positive activities and well being laboratory here on campus and she is also the author of the of the best selling book the how of happiness.

When I was in the transfer process and kind of picking what school I wanted to go to.

One of the things that I recommend for students to do is to kind of research the faculty that are on that campus that would be part of the field that you're interested in.

So I did that. I remember there is a documentary on Netflix called happy and doctors under Lubomyr ski is part of that. So coming in and psychology student, what I really wanted to do was take a class with her, um, an you know that didn't disappoint doctor Luis Rodriguez. He was a transfer student as well. Started out from San Bernardino Valley College and then went on to Harvard and has done really great things. So the reason we and we like to highlight these faculty is just, you know. Again remind you that.

I'm coming in to a research institutions means that you're going to have opportunity to work with any of these professors, so hopefully you know you can kind of.

Um, navigate the user website. See look at the Department in the different faculty an if you know their research interests, align with yours. You can reach out to them an again. I'll actually move on to the next slide.

Research.

But research doesn't always look like this. You know you see here this UM individual in a white lab coat. But that doesn't mean that research is only for, you know, the stem field. It definitely happens in all of our disciplines. Across campus dance are all of our humanities major. It might look a little different, but they are all doing groundbreaking research.

OK, I should be back on. I'm on the academic success. An opportunities lied. So one program that we would like to highlight is the Academic Resource Center on campus. This is the centralized tutoring center on campus that you could go to for help on you know, of course English and math, but not only that, the art, the Academic Resource Center does a really great job of providing tutoring assistance across all disciplines on campus so they do a lot of surveys to kind of see where students.

And uh, or what areas they need assistance in an? That way they know how to provide that. If you are currently a tutor at your Community College campus are academic Resource Center is student around as well. So if later on you're interested in Employment Opportunity, that would be great for you education abroad. We do offers many different types of study abroad study abroad programs that vary from you know, like maybe a four week program to a full year depending on what you're looking for you can you can study abroad during the summer.

And there are a lot of scholarship and financial aid opportunities available to help you do so. So if you're interested in that as a transfer student, all I can say is that I recommend for you to speak with someone in the education abroad office as soon as you transfer, because it typically does take about a year to plan, but any student that has done education abroad always brags about that being the best experience of their lives, so definitely encourage all of you to take advantage of it first. Your programs.

There uhm, in order to like help are transfer students with transitions each of our colleges does have some type of peer mentor, ship, program or workshop series for transfer students. So for the College of Humanities, that program is called transfers 1st. And what they do is offer wanna peer mentor ship program. So they'll pair you up with a senior transfer student. That's either, you know, the same major or very similar major as you, but senior and you know has already gone through that process and can help you.

Transition and just kind of beer. Go to person if you have any questions.

And then the College of engineering has their transfer transition program as well. And the College of Natural Sciences have stem connections. They all kind of have that peer mentorship program, and they do also all host workshops on things like how to adjust the for the quarter system.

Getting involved in research. Uhm, and then just anything to kind of help. Easier transition and avoid transfer shock the program within the College of Humanities does also offer a uhm.

Hey Cora, specifically for transfer students it's called the has 001 transfer success course an. In this course you can be you can take all of those different workshops, but kind of get credit for it as a clause and those discussion sections are led by fellow transfer students that are all seniors as well and can kind of guide you through the process.

We do have a University honors program as well on campus. Uhm, that can kind of open up opportunities for you as well. As far as like research scholarships an many more you do have to have certain GPA requirements that you can find on the website owners.ucr.edu, but if you're currently in honors that your Community College, I highly recommend getting involved in the honors program at UCR as well.

A little bit about, you know, kind of like life after graduation. An career search. So the average midcareer pay for UCR graduates is 109 thousand, $300? That's pretty good. We are Career Center that you can see here in the background. Hope does host 15 annual career fairs and special programmes, 70% of UCR students are employed between 6 to 12 months after graduation and 19% enter post graduate. So I would say that's an 89%.

Success rate, and that's really great as well. 88% of job very employers select UCR students for second interviews and then here are some of the camp companies that are Career Center has close relationships with and that they often bring to campus to host either mock interviews with student or offer internship opportunities. Amazon, Apple, GEICO, Google Kaiser, Kohl's all really great companies to work with The Walt Disney Company offers.

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He college program as well, uhm?

But all of these are great resources for you all. They host workshops throughout the entire day on how to assist you with preparing for interviews, resume writing, internship, search all of that.

Housing, uh as a transfer student, you do have the opportunity to live in one of the six on campus apartments. So just to distinguish a little bit between residence halls, an on campus apartments, the residence halls are typically like.

You know how you see? Kind of like in the movies and all of that with like a long hallway, rooms on each side, and then communal restrooms? Those we reserve for freshman only, but as a transfer student you get to have access to campus apartments, which are kind of like the ones pictured here in the background, where it's more of an apartment style setting. So typically like Glenmore here that you see in the background there are rooms with four bedrooms and like 2 restrooms.

Now are also 2 bedroom or two bedrooms and one restroom, but if you are interested in on campus housing, uhm the application opens up once you are admitted student and if you do have the opportunity I highly recommend it. When I was a transfer student I did get to live on campus and I really think that was a big contributor to my success an that.

Does also help with, you know your transition adjusting and your grades. So if you are able to definitely take advantage of that.

Health and Wellness in the background picture. Here you can see our student recreational center, which is one of the newest in the UC and it is top of the line state of the art like equipment with like an Olympic size swimming pool.

Love your weights and cardio machines and all of that and then the cost of attending the student Health Center is included in your tuition. So definitely take advantage of that if you're able to.

Uh, we also have a student health and Wellness services. We do have the Health Center on campus. If you ever need it. UM, student affairs. Case managers that are there to work with students in any kind of unique situation. They may have that they need assistance with counseling and psychological services.

Dot UCR if you, even if you don't have the student health insurance, you are able to take advantage of eight free sessions with counseling and psychological services, so that's really great resource for you well.

A man, then the student Disabilities Resource Center. Of course, if you need any accommodations, you would want to contact them to.

To set that up and then the well is located inside of Costco Hall on campus and Costco Hall is where all of our gender and ethnic studies programs offices are. So like are Chicano students programs are African student programs, Asian students, programs, etc. An the well does do a lot of programming around like both my mental and physical health. I know they have a 2 station there a napping.

Station and they offer a lot of great program to help educate you on these things.

A little bit about getting involved. Once you a transfer, you are going to want to get involved right away. Typically students have two years, maybe 3 years. Once they transfer, and so you want to hit the ground running and get the most out of the experience as you can, and the way you're going to do that is by getting involved. So we do have 450 student organizations on campus that vary from like academic to community service to professionally based organizations. You can find a full list of them on highlanderlink.ucr.edu if you wanted to kinda browse through that.

We do have fraternities on sororities on campus that are both.

Panel Linick and also cultural um or professionals, fraternities and sororities that you can take apart be apart of uh, we do typically host three concerts every year. Block party in the fall, spring, splash in the spring and winter solstice in the winter that didn't bring great.

A artist to our campus.

OK, here's a little bit about the cost of attendance. So when you look at this graph.

The way I kind of like to look at it is from top to bottom umso tuition bees here, if you see is the same for everyone across the board, so 15,600 and one these. This is the only amount that you'll ever see directly billed to your student account. So if you're trying to figure out what the minimum is that you'd be paying to attend UCR, this would be your number. And this also does include the health insurance fee, which if you can see on the bottom.

Corn bottom right hand corner of this slide cost about 1774 and this is the only fee that you can wave. So if you can submit an insurance waiver and prove that you already have a qualifying insurance that you could potentially waive this fee, which would be bringing your fees down to 13,827.

So that would be again like the bare minimum. Uhm, and next you would want to kind of think about what your housing situation is going to be like. So if you are local to the Riverside area then you know you might be living with parents, then that would be your estimated cost 6575. We don't have to worry about the residence halls because again, those are only open to freshman, but if you are interested in either campus apartments or finding account an apartment nearby.

Then, um, $11,000 is roughly what you would want to budget for.

Books, supplies, transportation, and personal expenses. It really comes down to the individual I.

For one, have you know, never had to spend that for a full 1450 on books and supplies? There are a lot of ways that you can go about that to save money, so you know buying used books, renting books if you are in the stem field, you might want to kind of budget around there that since you will have like labs an.

No science kits that you'll have to purchase, but if you are in any of the other colleges, you might not get anywhere near that number. Transportation again that depends. You know if you're living on campus, you might not bring a car, so you'll just kind of walk to campus and then obviously that would bring your cost down. But if you are living with parents and you're going to be commuting, you might want to think about how much that would cost you as well.

And personal expenses that includes, you know, like your hygiene products, your clothing, your entertainment, all of that, which again varies a lot by person.

So you know, to summarize it, you kind of want to mainly think about tuition and fees and how you would be meeting that. However, with That being said, there are of course financial aid and scholarships available. First and foremost, do you want to submit your application every year by March 2nd? So that's really important for you to be meeting deadlines. If you haven't already applied for financial aid and you are currently applying.

An missed the March 2nd deadline that was just the priority deadline. You can still apply, but I would. I would suggest doing that as soon as possible.

A blue and gold opportunity plan is something that I hope you all know about, and if you don't, you know if you could take one thing from this presentation. I would recommend that it's this, so the entire UC system does have the blue and gold opportunity plants. What This Is It? The UC system wide promise that if you're.

Family income or your individual income if you are considering independent student is less than $80,000, then the UC promises to have your tuition cover through the blue and gold.

So again, that's referring to that first, that top line on the previous slide.

92% of UCR undergraduate students receive some form of financial aid. Whether that's work, study, loans or grants, and 76% of students financial aid need was met with need based aid, so that would again be like grant or work study or anything, or scholarships or anything like that, but with the blue and gold. It helps many, many students. So if you are, you know what I'm trying to say is, don't let the finances scare you away from applying to UCR or any UC campus.

Um, while you're going through the application process, you know just apply to any school that you're considering an usually after you're admitted, couple weeks after, you'll receive a financial aid package and that way you can kind of see how much aid you would get an. Use that to help make you make help you make an educated decision about where you're going to be attending.

Now we're getting here into the admissions requirements, so from the top pier number one, this is going to be your basic UC admission. So all UC campuses are looking for these requirements as a bare minimum. So first is that you must have at least 60 semester or 90 quarter units of transferable college credit. So sometimes students think that they have met the 60 semester units, but what? They're not.

Thinking about is that some of the courses they may have taken my not be transferable uhm so if you're ever in doubt about that you can check the websiteassist.org to determine if your credits are transferable or not or I also recommend either making an appointment with one of us as admissions counselors which you could do on our website at admissions dot UCR dot Edu or setting up an appointment with your Community College counselor and they can guide you on that as well the next minimum.

Requirement is to have at least a 2.4 cumulative GPA and 2.8 for nonresident students. This is a baseline minimum, so I do highly encourage students to shoot beyond the 2.4 to be more competitive.

One course in mathematical concepts and quantitative reasoning that's usually anything intermediate algebra and higher. So statistics, college algebra, precalculus, calculus, any of those would count.

And you must complete the following courses with a grade of C or better by the end of the spring term. If you're planning to transfer for fall so 2 college level English composition courses.

And then play at least four courses from at least two of the following category. So the arts, humanities, social, and behavioral Sciences, physical and Biological Sciences when I'm speaking.

About General Ed. Many students are working on what's called the I guess the pattern. If you don't know what that is, definitely set up a meeting with one of your Community College counselors, but all of these courses here that are outlined A7 courses are part of the I get see. So if you aren't working on I get C and this sounds different to you. Don't don't worry about it, these are part of the I get C and if you're working on I get so you'll be in good shape as well. As far as UCR goes, we.

Really recommend that students applying to School of Business, the College of Humanities.

The school of public policy and the Graduate School of Education. We highly recommend that you will work on. I get see an you know or in that certification before you transfer. If you're applying to the College of natural agricultural Sciences or the College of engineering, we prefer that you only complete these minimum 7 courses, but not the full. I get C and the rest of the time should be spent focused on your major preparation courses.

So for those majors, there are a lot of courses like higher math or maybe a chemistry series or biology series or a physics series that are required prior to transfer. So we prefer that you work on those prior to transferring them, though I get see because you can't finish, so I guess you want to transfer.

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Again, you can refer to us his story For more information on this, uhm, and then third is to satisfy those selection criteria for your major. So that's that major prep I keep referring to, which can also be found an assist.org.

OK, next I'd like to let you know about the UC transformations planner. The UC transformations planner is a tool for you all to track your progress and to your grades and your entire academic history. So to create one you want to go to go.ucr.edu/tab and you can go ahead and create an account. When doing this, make sure you're using a reliable professional email that you check regularly.

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And two, you're going to want to enter your completed planned Community College coursework. You can enter.

Courses that are not from a California Community College, but those won't auto populate. You will want to enter those manually yourself.

And then track your progress towards meeting UC admissions requirements. So if you go in after every semester, you should be going in an updating your grades from the previous term and then entering your plan courses for the next term. And this really helps advise you. So if you have or have any questions about where you stand in meeting the admissions requirements, please feel free to email transfer at ucr.edu and then we can go ahead and take a look at that and see where you are at.

OK, so here are the steps in applying to UCR so one you want to gather all of your information so make sure you have transcripts from every college that you've attended. Even if you only attended college for one term, you still want to report everything on exactly as it is on your transcript. So any WS, any non transferable coursework, all of it should be reported on your application.

Do you want to work on writing your personal insight questions? There are Seven questions that you can choose from, and you'll have to answer at least three.

And three completely UC application and then here are the deadlines.

So for fall admission in August, you would get access to the UC application, so you can kind of see what they're asking for. You can start gathering that information and prepared to apply, but it's not until November 1st through the 30th that you would actually submit your application in between August and November. There is also a sub mission period open for those who are interested in tagging to our campus that is September 1st through 30th. Tag is a program that six UC campuses participate in.

Um, allow you to have guaranteed admission so they do. There are specific requirements that we're looking forward to be eligible for the tag, and those can be found on our website as well. At admissions.ucr.edu. Typically it's a higher GPA requirement. An also stricter deadlines on when you would have to have certain major preparation courses completed by.

Our admissions notifications start going out in March and continued through the end of April.

The deadline to commit to a campuses or submitting your student of intent to register is May 1st and then our transfer as our deadline is June 1st. Sorry, the front. The May 1st deadline is for freshman so you don't have to worry about that for transfers it is June 1st.

OK, we are also open for winter applications, so this will be the winter application timeline. The application submission period will be July 1st through the 31st if you will be submitting A tag that's made first to the 31st, so that is coming up really quickly. If you have any questions about that, I would highly recommend that you email transfer at ucr.edu or if you would like to make an appointment again, you can do so on our website at admissions.ucr.edu.

Um, our appointments are open to all prospective students and we can help you plan out or see where you are in regards to meeting requirements and let you know if you're ready to apply.

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And then the the admissions notifications for went to students begin in September.

And the transfer as IR deadline is October 15th for the winter term. We will be open to all majors with the exception of physics. So unfortunately for Winter 2021, the physics major is going to be will be closed.

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Uh, after you apply, there are some other deadlines that you will want to keep in mind. So the housing deadline is May 1st. The transcripts to apply for housing housing is on a first come first serve basis, so the sooner you can apply for housing, the better the transcript deadline is July 1st and the final document, so any official transcripts that we are requesting would be due by July 15th mandatory.

Student orientation and sometime and for transfer students actually September.

And then move in date kind of varies by a community, so you would get more information from on that if you sign the housing contract.

But that is on that does conclude our presentation. So thank you for joining us today. I hope that you got to learn a law and had many of your questions answered. I would encourage you to, you know browser website there is a lot of helpful information and resources there. If you have any questions to email transfer at ucr.edu you can follow us on social media. If you want to keep up with you know what what is going on in the UCR campus and stay informed.

Other than that, uh, my do still have the chat here open if you have any questions. I'm Isaac and I would be happy to help.

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