Scholars Day Photos

Approximately 185 academically outstanding UCSC applicants attended Scholars Day on Saturday, March 14. The event, held at the West Field House, attracted approximately 470 people, including the prospective students and their family members.

Scholars Day celebrates the academic excellence of UCSC’s faculty, programs, and students and provides prospective students attending the event–who are academically in the top 7 percent of freshman applicants to UCSC, based on GPA and SAT scores–with information about the campus’s people, programs, and facilities.

At the information fair, representatives from the campus’s five academic divisions, eight colleges, student support services, and special programs such as Education Abroad staffed information tables. Event participants were also able to tour a residence hall and the general campus and explore a computer lab.

During lunch, research professor of astronomy and astrophysics Frank Drake and social sciences dean Martin Chemers gave presentations on their research.

Barbara Bedford (far right), director of the Career Center, describes the office’s services for students.

Approximately 250 students, faculty, and staff acted as hosts for Scholars Day.

Chancellor Greenwood talks to prospective students.

A Scholars Day participant reads an article on UCSC’s student body that was printed in the Winter issue of the UCSC Review. Profiles and photos of students from the same issue rest on easels behind the crowd.

Taki Ñan, a UCSC student musical group, performed Latin American music for the event, and Shakespeare-to-Go staged a performance.

Participants came to the Scholars Day event from all across California, from eight other states, and from Canada.