revquackers

If any of you have questions about the quant psych program at UC Merced feel free to reach out, I'm currently a fourth year there.

I'm in the psych program at UC Merced and we're having our prospective student day this friday, not sure what poli sci is doing though but almost all the programs are doing it Friday and Saturday this week.

I'm currently a graduate student in health psych here at UCM what questions did you have?

Well, if you can find some people when you get here I would recommend renting a house but many of the apartments are affordable and safe. I'm renting a two bedroom house downtown-ish and I pay about $700 a month. Here's a list of a couple where my friends live. http://www.villagelandingmerced.com/ http://www.northwoodvillagemerced.com/

Yeah the air here is horrible, also I guess the only real difference you'll have is we have a lot of hispanics here which is great because that means lots of mexican food! I know for our department we have about 3 or 4 favorite mexican places which catches some of the non-california non-central valley folks a bit off guard at first. Yes you can put avocados on everything and yes it's amazing

Well, we just got a craft beer bar which is nice, we also have a fun coffee shop called Coffee Bandits, there's a few museums that are fun, lots of stuff happens on campus but it's more focused on the undergrads, grad division does some nice stuff bowling parties dinners ect ect, lot of people have house parties. That's about all I can think of or at least all that I really do.

Yeah, the real selling point of Merced is you're about 2-3 hours away from all the best California has to offer which is nice. Just make sure you have a car and some friends and everything will be fine. Any other questions or concerns? I'm assuming you're one of the new poli sci graduate students have any questions about that?

Currently at UCM, well the city has gotten better over the years but the entire central valley has high unemployment and such so I would say Merced is doing better than it's smaller neighbors but not as well as the larger cities near by (Fresno and Modesto). Housing prices were so low a few years ago I know a couple people bought a house but they've risen a bit now. Where are you coming from?

Just as a general FYI two of the last three years UC Merced has had extra spots in their PhD program for developmental, hope this helps https://web.archive.org/web/20110504133420/http://www.apa.org/education/grad/graduate-openings.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20130529170905/http://www.apa.org/education/grad/graduate-openings.aspx http://psychology.ucmerced.edu/2.asp?uc=1&lvl2=4&lvl3=4&lvl4=11&contentid=7

To the person who got into UC Merced for Health Psychology can you message me your POI? I'm still waiting to hear back, thanks.