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Housing: New and Enjoyable

Living on Campus On-campus housing provides a safe place to live, surrounded by caring staff and other students who will help you transition to college life. You can focus on your studies and enjoy your college experience while living among friends in our well-maintained facilities. UC Merced is proud to guarantee housing to all incoming first-year and new transfer students meeting the necessary deadlines stated on our website: housing.ucmerced.edu. Entering first-year students who live on campus during the fall term are guaranteed a second year of housing, if all deadlines for applications are met. On-campus housing is also available to continuing students on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Summits

The Valley Terraces

Three residence halls make up The Summits community: Cathedral Hall, Tenaya Hall and Half Dome — our new- est residence hall opening in Fall 2013. The Summits is designed as a traditional corridor-style residence hall experience

Nine magnificent halls of apartment- style suites accommodate continuing and transfer students with two or three double occupancy bedrooms, a shared living room and private bathroom. The Terrace Center is located at the heart of the community. It provides laundry facilities with an Internet notification system for Valley Terraces and Sierra Ter- races residents, mailroom, Housing and Residence Life office, comfortable study

The Terrace Center

with five bedrooms sharing a common restroom. Half Dome will be home to new and continuing students while Cathedral and Tenaya Halls will be exclusively for first-year residents. Residents in The Summits partner with campus custodial staff to maintain the cleanliness of restrooms and public areas including study rooms and in-hall laundry facilities available 24 hours a day. The Summits provides many great amenities for residents to enjoy. Residents can take advantage of the Resident Learning Center located on the first floor of Tenaya Hall. Other amenities, such as a computer lab and printer, gaming center, vending, dance and music rooms, meeting rooms, mailboxes, kitchen, outdoor barbeque, and more, are available to residents.

lounge and computer room. The Den is a common meeting place for residents to enjoy a large-screen TV or play a game of pool, air hockey or pingpong. Movie nights, dances and other special events take place in the Terrace Center’s California Room.

The Summits Marketplace

The Sierra Terraces

Centrally located off the paseo between Cathedral and Tenaya halls, The Summits Marketplace offers a large selection of snack items, grab and go microwavable items, groceries, personal care items and more. Don’t forget to try a F’Real Shake.

Sierra Terraces is also home to first-year students living on campus. Two-story residence halls (Tuolumne and Mariposa) offer community living with two or three students per bedroom. Every two bedrooms share a private bathroom. Both halls have common lounges, computers and a

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kitchen to make a late-night snack.

PHOTOS: Students who live on campus experience a sense of academic and social community with their peers, creating friendships and memories that will last a lifetime.

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