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FALL 2025 ADMITS

See the message sent to your UC Merced email on Friday, May 30, 2025 from your BAC temporary summer academic advisor.  That message includes information about:

Friday, August 22, 2025:  see the message sent to your UC Merced email with information on Fall 2025 walk-in advising, appointments, and workshops.

 

The Bobcat Advising Center (BAC) is the academic advising home for:

  • 2025-26 first years in every major

  • Lower division undeclared transfers

  • Second and third year undeclared students

 

To contact our BAC team:  use only your UC Merced email account.

Include your first name, last name, and UC Merced student ID number in all messages.

Using your UC Merced email when you contact academic advisors, professors, administrators, or staff at UC Merced will help all offices provide the quickest response

Due to the volume of students that we advise, it may take 1-2 business days for a response.

 

DIRECTOR OF FIRST YEAR AND UNDECLARED ADVISING

Vacant

 

BOBCAT ADVISING CENTER RECEPTION DESK

Main phone:  (209) 291-9739

General email:  bac@ucmerced.edu

 

SUMMER 2025 TEMPORARY ACADEMIC ADVISOR ASSIGNMENTS

Milton Carcamo, Academic Advisor, miltoncarcamo@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0288

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name D, M, Z

 

Maria Ceja, Senior Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Peer Advising, mcejalopez@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0120

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name B, V
  • Advises non-transfer second and third year undeclared with last name A-Z

 

Erendira "Dida" Estrada, Senior Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Undeclared Transfer Student Support, eestrada2@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0119

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name C, Q, Y
  • Advises undeclared lower division transfers with last name A-Z
  • Advises Fall 2025 Prime Plus with last name A-Z

 

Nora Garcia, Academic Advisor, ngarcia68@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0292

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name S, T, W

 

L. Maichi Lor, Academic Advisor, l.maichi@ucmerced.edu, (209) 500-6303

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name A, R

 

Maria Meza, Academic Advisor, mariamezagaytan@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0286

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name I, K, L, N, O

 

Mark Stewart, Academic Advisor and University Honors Program Advising Coordinator, mstewart13@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0311

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name E, F, G, U
  • Advises Fall 2025 first years in the University Honors Program with last names A-Z

 

Xiong Vang, Senior Academic Advisor and Multimedia Coordinator, xvang8@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-0158

  • Temporary summer academic advisor for Fall 2025 first years with last name H, J, P, X