Is anyone planning on attending Highlander day?
ME!!
Is it just like a normal visit day?
Me!
Also @72soop from what I know, UCR has an agenda online or an itinerary. I’m not sure if it’s up yet, last I checked it wasn’t, but I think it’s geared towards those who were accepted. It’s different from a visit I think.
@72soop I think its similar but this is only for students that have been admitted so I’m assuming we will get different and more information than you would at a normal visit day.
I’m kind of excited to visit UCR as I haven’t seen it yet so this visit will probably determine if I am going to attend UCR or not!
I wish, my prom is that day
@Katecat27 Aw man! That sucks! Have you visited before?
@hopeful7770
Yupp, I visited yesterday on “Visit UCR” day. I’ll probably visit once more on a day school is in session. Have you visited yet?
@Katecat27 No I haven’t so I’m pretty excited to visit on Highlander Day!
@hopeful7770
Have fun! I actually liked the campus far more than I was expecting. It doesn’t hurt that it smelled amazing (surrounded by orange groves). All of the students I met seemed pretty friendly and in high spirits as well. Even better, both of my senior tour guides already had great job offers. I was also very happy to hear that the dean has a public commitment to reducing student debt. I hope highlander day goes well for everyone! Someone should comeback and write a bit about what happened afterwards for those who couldn’t attend.
This is a bit random but is it common for parents to attend Highlander Day with their kids (incoming students) or is this event just for the students?
I’m a parent and I’m going. The schedule is now posted and they have a session just for parents so it’s for both parents and students. Looks like they have fun things to do for little siblings too
Hey guys!! I felt like sharing how Highlander Day went in case you missed it.
So, personally I was admitted into BCOE and I also received the Chancellor’s Scholarship, so I arrived a bit before 8 am and spent a little over an hour at a breakfast celebration. It was amazing because I was able to meet current BCOE students and ask questions I may have had.
Anyways, the actually Highlander Day went great! There were TONS of booths! Every major had a booth, and a lot of the student clubs and organizations had booths as well. They were trying to recruit incoming freshmen, so I’d written my name & e-mail down on some lists that seemed interesting.
I took a campus tour, went to the BCOE welcome session, attended the military family session, and the health profession session. All sessions were well timed, had time for questions, and were quite informative! Of course the experience is different per major and per person, but personally I enjoyed Highlander Day and I actually was able to submit my SIR during Highlander Day too!
It was nice seeing the campus with tons of other prospective students, and it was great seeing the current student body who run clubs and organizations. I found this day quite helpful, informative, and fun overall!
I missed it 
I went to the school the day before but I didn’t get to see much of it. Just the area around the Hub and the housing buildings. I had a limited time to stay there because I had to get home ASAP (live 2 hours away).
Does anyone know if there will be another highlander day?
@maethestudent, sounds like you had a great experience at Highlander Day. Due to our plane being delayed–twice–we weren’t able to hear the Bournes Identity session, which was something we really wanted to hear. Did they talk about job placement and internships for BCOE students? Average class size for engineering classes?
We took a tour of engineering labs, did the housing tour, general campus tour, etc. Son hasn’t totally decided; he’s checking out San Jose State this weekend.
I can help you out. So the presentation started with a bunch of statistics when the college was formed, how many students there are, etc. They also brought in students that talked about there experiences with bcoe. Now to your questions.
- There were a lot of opportunities for internships and jobs. Besides the annual career fair they said Microsoft, Google, esri were constantly cing down to recrute UCR students. The students that were sharing there experiences had multiple internships with various companies. There were a lot of workshops and the college advisers help build your resume freshman year.
- So the general Ed classes are large from 150-200 with small 20 person discussion sessions. But for the actual engineering courses there are about 20-30 students per class since there are only 2000 people in the entire college.
@Collgbrwsr They talked a lot about internships and jobs! They noted that Microsoft, Google, other companies constantly recruited UCR students. I spoke with a student during my breakfast celebration, and she talked about how she had different internships and so did her peers. Also, gen ed is usually 150-200 but the major courses / engineering courses are smaller since BCOE is pretty small overall.
Thank you! This was just the type of info we wanted. Any stats on 4-year grad rate in engineering?