<p>Taken from the UC Merced website:</p>
<p>Shared Experience Program</p>
<p>UC Merced will participate in a special UC program designed to admit academically qualified students who meet UC admissions requirements but cannot be accommodated by one or more other UC campuses to which they applied. The Shared Experience Program will allow such talented students to enroll at UC Merced through the end of their sophomore year and then transfer to their original campus of choice, if they wish, provided they meet the program’s academic requirements.</p>
<p>[U</a> C Merced - UC Merced Reports Record Numbers of Applications and Admission Offers for Fall 2007 Freshman Class](<a href=“http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/03302007_uc_merced_report_record.asp]U”>http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/03302007_uc_merced_report_record.asp)</p>
<p>I believe you are offered it when you apply to other UC’s. It’s guaranteed admission to the school of your choosing, just you have to stick out your GE years at Merced in hopes you’ll stay and expand the growing campus.</p>