I recently got accepted to UC Merced as a Spring 2025. Im the first in my family to go to university as a first gen. What things should I know or do? I’m trying to be prepared with everything I can do. Any tips and advice will be greatly appreciated!

I’m highly considering withdrawing from math 011 and taking it at the cc. I’m so behind already and my first midterm didn’t go great. I just can’t see myself passing this course so if anyone has experience with the withdrawal process (any course) what’s it like?

are there any good boba spots around? i'm thinking of buying boba and having uber eats deliver it for my team's first meeting!

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I’m a international freshman. I wanted to know where we would drop off the plates when we are done eating at the YWDC.

Hi guys, ga_vindiesel here. Just wanted to talk about/promote the UC Merced Accessibility Services on campus located in ACS 140, Cubicle 128. We are the department to help accommodate you for all sorts of things, from academic accommodations, dining or housing accommodations. Our scope of accommodations are very broad for example we've accommodated a student with a broken leg to get a cart to transport them to classes and to academic accommodations if you have special permissions say for extra time on exams. Importantly if you have an ESA animal and live on campus make sure to register that animal through our department. Feel free to reach out to me and DM if you have any questions, there's all kinds of accommodations we provide. If you've gotten this far, thank you for reading all this and have a wonderful day. Signed, ga_vindiesel

Hello guys. im in the af and i was wondering if UCM would accept my ccaf credits in weather/meteorology once i transfer out of community college and how that process would work. also, to other veterans that applied for fafsa, did you get it?

Does it matter if I put the wrong building name in the address or am I good because my name is on the label?

I just took the paramedic program entrance exam last week. ( I don't feel like I score high) but now I'm left wondering after checking the Application Information Handbook. Do you think we will determine if I got in by an interview or accepted email on 10/09? & did they ever mention how many people will get in? and how many alternates will be notified? I don't know if this is the correct place to ask but I'm not sure where to turn to since they especially state they want us bothering the school with questions about the program (please correct me if I'm wrong )

Also, I would like to stay anonymous, in case I'm crossing any lines by posting and asking. Thank you any advice or information would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi everyone,

I’m currently a senior in high school and I plan to go to UCM for uni, I was wondering if any CSE majors could tell me how many units are still required after completing CSE classes for a math minor?

As a bonus, if any CSE majors can tell me how their experience has been doing computer science, that would be greatly appreciated!

I am pursuing Data Science and I really want to attend UC Merced. So I was wondering about:

1. What do DS majors learn? What tends to be the most challenging subject or course?

2. Any course you take outside your major to specialize in an concentration/minor?

3. Any good opportunities for current DS or related majors? How competitive are internships and can you even find a good internship?

4. Let's say I enrolled in UC Merced and didn't get DS as my first choice, is it easy to transfer into DS?

What are the major transfer requirements?

hello everyone. I am currently in the air force, 19 years old, i have a 4 year contract (Aug 2023-2027). I was born and raised in California but i joined the air force last year right after high school for college and am now stationed in Louisiana. Now my goal is to attend a UC after the air force to pursue and get a bachelors in Meteorology/atmospheric sciences but i would like to attend a CC first and then transfer to UC merced using the tag program, or SJSU, however, I realize that I'm encountering a lot of obstacles in my way.

1. I can't be eligible for the tag program if i dont attend a cc in California, which is possible for me to apply to and do some classes online like math, english, etc, but not all classes are online because some science classes like chemistry have labs which require you to be physically there.

2. If i do attend a cc in louisiana, which would be the easiest way to get my ccaf and knock out the requirements to transfer to a uc, i could do all the low div classes required to transfer including the classes that require you to be there in person, but if i do that, the chance is high that i might not get accepted into a CSU or UC since california universities prefer students that attend cc in california. Or thats who they would rather pick first over me

3. this is not so much of a problem but a solution that i tried to come up on my own. My idea is that i will apply to a cc in California, maybe this upcoming Spring 2025, and i will do every required class i can online from here, and then when my contract with the af is done in mid 2027, i will go back home in California, apply to cc again and knock out the rest of the classes which would be most likely science in person. Hopefully this will take only a semester or 2 at most. After that i will apply to UCs using the tag program.

main goal of this is to knock out cc while im in the air force so i dont have to do 4 years of uni after the air force and i can reduce that to 2 years, since i will have done 2 years of college in the air force. Main goal is to do cc now and try and be eligible for the tag program so i can apply to uc in spring 2028 hypothetically. if UC doesnt work out, then i want to apply to SJSU main questions are is this plan possible to achieve? if this plan doesnt work for UC, will it work for CSUs like SJSU? , if you guys could give me tips and corrections i would apppreciate it VERY MUCH. I just need help. thanks for reading!

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Hi I was wondering if there were any soundproof music rooms on campus that an engineering major first year could access just to play music for fun? And if there are rooms, how do I reserve a time to use them or whatever I would need to do to use them.

I have seen a number of posts about students looking for someone to take over a Merced Station Lease.

Any idea why this happens?

My son moved from the dorms to Merced Station this year so I am a little concerned if something is up with Merced Station.

One thing which comes to mind is he toured it in Feb and Merced Station kept bugging him to sign up immediately. He held out till he knew if he got the transfer he was trying for (didnt happen) and signed on finally in April. Merced Station kept pressuring him that rooms wont be available at the 729 rate but they were still available in August for 729.

Are these kids coming online and trying to get someone else to take over the lease in a similar boat? They got pressured by Merced Station to sign leases but then got accepted at their transfer schools?

Or is there a more serious issue with Merced Station?

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Hi! I am looking for a person to take over my lease at Merced Station. You would have a shared room with a shared walk-in closet and a shared bathroom. The lease runs from August 1st, 2024 to July 31st, 2025. The monthly rent is $729. It is a gated community with loads of amenities (gym, pool, game room, etc). This floor plan is with 4 other girls all of them are very nice and organized and everyone keeps to themselves!! It is also a 2 -3 minute drive to UC Merced but if you don't have a car there is a shuttle that runs to campus every 10 minutes. Please message me if you are interested or have any further questions as I am happy to answer!

I understand uc require a 3.0 atleast just seems that this year will be really competitive ans UC Merced is one of the schools in interested in I'm a high school senior. I have around a 3.4 GPa (my old school didn't do AP classes, so I only have one AP). 2 years of Arabic, undecided, and around 16 clubs through the years, im kinda anxious since i dont have many AP classes although it wasn't by choice that i won't get into any uc.

Lowest gpa uc merced will accept from highschool. Easy major to get into ?

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I am a community college student that applied for the Winter Quarter 2025, and I still have not got an email that confirms my ID or letting me set up my portal. I have applied to UCSC and UCR and both have gave me emails and decisions already. I called a UCM advisor earlier today and said that he has no record of my application although I have a receipt from when I bought the applications. Should I wait until tomorrow and call again or is there someone higher up in the admissions office and I can speak to about my problem?

TLDR: I applied and been ghosted.

I bought food at one of the food trucks on campus with my cat card and they charged me twice for the same order. Where can I go to get this fixed?

We're hosting a webinar tonight at 7 pm PDT for anyone wanting to learn more about UC Merced and admissions information for future first-years (freshman) and transfer students. Join us tonight to learn more! If you didn't hear, we were just ranked #1 in Social Mobility - in the country! You can read more about that here: https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2024/uc-merced-ranked-no-1-nation-social-mobility-no-18-overall

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Hi Everyone!

Does anyone know where to exchange MXN for USD in Merced?