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By: Genevie Mercado and Noe Gastelum

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 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
UCSC Location
Exact location
The university of Santa Cruz
has a really beautiful campus
for the ones interested in
nature enducesed campus.

● Capitola, CA.
● Aptos, CA.
● Watsonville, CA.
Animals in UCSC campus

● Wild Turkey.
● Koi Fish.
● Mule Deer.
● California Giant
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Salamander.
Cost : Tuition & Fees (per semester)

On-Campus Off-Campus

$14,640
Online

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 Cost of living
Room and Board: Transportation:
On: $18,186 On: $810
Off: $15,654 Off: $1,287

Books and Supplies: Personal Expenses:

On & off: $1,203 On & Off: $1,509

Campus Health Insurance:

On & Off:$2,823

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Financial Aid
a Did You Know?
n Dependent grant: If you have children
t under 18. You can receive up to $6,000.
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C Blue & Gold opportunity plan: Students 83% of
r whos families make less than $80,000 a students use
u year. financial
z aid.
Miller Scholoship: Maxed out financia aid.
Emergency situation (Medical bills).
Typically get 2,000 for an academic year.

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 GPA
UCSC requires

3.00 or higher
(California resident)
A weighted GPA in high school is when
teachers from colleges apply to see what
3.40 or higher classes u took and u had a high GPA from
(Non-California resident) AP classes they see the difficulty og the
clases you took. Unweighted GPA is when
a person had a high GPA but didn’t take
any hard classes.

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 Exams
UCSC requires you to take the SAT and ACT.

SAT: Requires a score of at

least 1170.

ACT: Requires a score of at

least a 25.

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 Personal Statements

Personal statement is one of the

key prerequisites for entering a
university. It is your
motivation letter that makes an Example
admissions committee decide on
whether to admit, reject, or
waitlist your application. What are your
personal goals?

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 Majors and Programs
Computer Technology and
Economics
Engineering Information
B.A. Management B.S.
B.S.

The systems Economics studies They will become

programming how individuals, proficient in the
concentration firms, governments, following areas:
focuses on and other strategy,
software systems: organizations within planning,
courses include our society make innovation,
choices, and how entrepreneurship,i
operating systems,
these choices affect nformation
compilers,
society’s use of its technology,
software
available resources. software
engineering,ect.
design,ect.

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 Majors and Programs
Art & Design Physics B.S.

The art & design The program learning

program focuses on outcomes communicate
the creation of the faculty’s
novel game systems, expectations to
spaces, and students, provide a
configurations that framework for
can produce broad faculty evaluation
ranges of player of the curriculum
experiences, for a based on empirical
wide variety of data.
purposes.

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 PhD Programs
Education Linguistic Physics
s

Teaching Chemistry

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 Masters
Science Social Science
Technical

Artistic Disciplines Humanistic

 Rates
Admission rates:

➔ Freshman - 47.1%
➔ Transfers - 61.0%

Graduation rates:
(These are the chances you have
you getting in to UCSC. Aswell as
➔ 76% how likely you are to graduate).

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 Retention Rates

Retention rate is a data

point that refers
specifically to how many Fun Fact!

first-year students return

to a college for a second
UCSC’S
year. Generally, retention retention
rates include full-time and rate is
part-time students 88.0%

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 Sports
UCSC offers . . .

-Golf
-Soccer
-Swimming & Diving
-Tennis
-Basketball

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 Mascot
-The Banana Slug

“Sammy”

-This mascot was chosen is

because an overwhelming pro-Slug
straw vote by students in 1986.

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 Historical Facts
Theory of Cold Ranked first
DNA sequence
Dark Matter in the country

In 1984, three UCSC UCSC physicists and In 2000, UCSC

cosmologists and a astronomers are researchers were
British astronomer among the most the first to
published a paper respected in the assemble the DNA
detailing their theory world. The campus
sequence of the
of Cold Dark Matter. was ranked first in
human genome.
the country.

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 Famous Alumni
Rebecca Romijn:American actress and former model.
She is known for her role as Mystique in the trilogy
of the X-Men film series.

Susie Bright: American feminist, author,

journalist, critic, editor, publisher, producer,
and performer.

Andy Samberg:American actor, comedian and

producer. He is a member of the comedy music
group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on
Saturday Night Live.

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 Fun Facts
-UCSC's famous banana slug mascot almost
did not survive the '80s.

-Five UCSC alumni have won Pulitzer

Prizes.

-Its almost impossible for students to

go though a whole school day without
seeing a wild animal.

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 Traditions

● First Rain Run

● Climbing Tree 9
● April 20th (420)

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Questions?

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 Resources
https://www.ucsc.edu/fees-cost/index.html
https://financialaid.ucsc.edu/index.html
https://admissions.ucsc.edu/posts/statistics
https://admissions.ucsc.edu/programs/applied-linguistics-and-multilinguali
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https://www.acceptancerate.com/schools/university-of-california-santa-cru
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