UC Preview Days - Admitted Freshmen

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - GENERAL
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Saturday, April 8
Highlander Day - UCR
Spring Insight - UCSB
Decision Davis - UCD
Triton Day - UCSD

Saturday, April 15
Bruin Day - UCLA

Saturday, April 22
Bobcat Day - UCM
Celebrate UCI - UCI
Cal Day - UCB

The only one I can’t find is UCSC Preview Day.

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It looks like UCSC’s Spring Spotlight begins on Friday, April 7.

They also appear to have scheduled a variety of events to different targeted audiences of admitted students.
http://admissions.ucsc.edu/apply/yield.html

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I’m trying to figure out which school to visit each weekend. I found some schedules from last year which are helping me prioritize. Personally, the SLO open house doesn’t seem like much more than one could do on a regular tour day.

For others who are in the same boat, here are some of the schedules I found.

April 7-9

UCSB (last year) https://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/docs/default-source/PDFs/spring-insight-program-2016.pdf?sfvrsn=8

SLO (not a UC but in the mix for many) http://orientation.calpoly.edu/open-house
Parents and family http://parent.calpoly.edu/open-house

UCSD (note logo says '16 but date says 2017) http://tritonday.ucsd.edu/schedule.php

UCR (last year) http://discover.ucr.edu/Discover_Day_16_Agenda.pdf

4

One question people often ask, “Will we get to see inside a dorm?”

Cal Poly - yes
UCSB - no

The engineering tour at Cal Poly is probably the best and most informative tour we’ve been on.
There were a lot of interesting events and presentations at UCSB, but we did not have time to attend them all. Your schedule fills up fast there.
Both schools have a lot of nice, friendly, helpful people available.

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Thank you @youcee We did the College of Science and Mathematics tour last year and I agree, the department tours at Cal Poly SLO are extremely informative. SLO also offered a separate dorm tour which was nice. UCD also offers a separate dorm tour. When we took the general tour at UCSB last year, they walked us through Santa Rosa, one of the low rise on campus dorms.

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UCI also showed dorm rooms on a tour. IMO, dorms may look different from the outside, but the rooms themselves are basically the same at all the schools we’ve seen - small.