UC Undergraduate Experience Survey Prize Winners

More than one hundred gift card prizes will be awarded in spring quarter!

Prize drawings will start the very first week of Spring quarter!  Taking the survey early increases your chances of winning a prize.  If you are selected as a winner in a prize drawing, you will get an email from surveys@ucsc.edu.  Prizes in the 2024 survey will include:

• $10, $50, and $100 prizes for Downtown Dollars!, which can be used at many local restaurants and shops throughout downtown Santa Cruz
• $30 to $100 Bookshop Santa Cruz gift cards!
• $50 to $100 Amazon gift cards!
• $50 to $100 Apple gift cards!

Please visit this page later in Spring quarter 2024 to see who has won a prize!  Prizes may be subject to change.

Also see below to see who won a prize during the previous year of the survey!

Prize Winners for the 2022 Survey

Congratulations to the following winners!  Thank you for sharing your experiences (and pictures) by taking this survey.  Enjoy spending your prize winnings!

Prizes included:

• More than TWENTY $25 Bookshop Santa Cruz giftcards - awarded in prize drawings during summer
• THIRTY $50 Amazon giftcards - awarded in prize drawings during the survey
• FIVE $100 Prizes of Apple giftcards - during the UC Undergraduate Experience Survey's "An Apple a Day" prize week in May!
• FIVE Grand Prize $200 Amazon giftcards - awarded during the middle and at the end of the survey.

Grand Prize Winners! - Throughout the Survey and at the End of the Survey

• First $200 Grand Prize Winner (May): Giselle Nicasio-Aguero - Oakes College
• Second $200 Grand Prize Winner (June): Kasey La - Linguistics, Cognitive Science
• Third $200 Grand Prize Winner (June): Natalie Davis - Neuroscience, John R. Lewis College
• Fourth $200 Grand Prize Winner (July): Haley Jones - Biology
• Final $200 Grand Prize Winner (July): Madison Garay - History of Art and Visual Culture

Late Spring Quarter - "An Apple A Day" Prize Winners!

• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Kimberly Perez - Mathematics
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Siena Oswald - Environmental Science
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Joleen Chow - Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Merrill College
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Megan Amiya - Economics, Merrill College
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Ingrid Herbulot - Oakes College

May-June Prize Winners!

• May $50 Prize Winner: Ashley Hom - Cognitive Science, John R. Lewis College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Kiana Miller - Stevenson College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Salil Tantamjarik - Computer Science: Game Design
• May $50 Prize Winner: Darshika Ravulapalli - Astrophysics, Kresge College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Basil Sheppard - Kresge College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Adan Gallegos - Business Management Economics, Oakes College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Christina Martinez-Fragoso - Astrophysics
• May $50 Prize Winner: Parul Datta - Computer Science, John R. Lewis College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Myron Zhang - College Nine
• May $50 Prize Winner: Elise Turkovich - Cognitive Science, Cowell College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Edith Sanchez - Merrill College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Mars Hosler - Psychology
• May $50 Prize Winner: Benjamin Pa - Sociology
• May $50 Prize Winner: Cosette Yang - Marine Biology, Cowell College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Kimroop Bhatti - John R. Lewis College
• June $50 Prize Winner: Beatriz Aguilar - Biology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Name withheld as requested by winner
• June $50 Prize Winner: Luke Sullivan - Marine Biology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Shavit Melamed - Literature and Sociology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Name withheld as requested by winner

April Prize Winners!

• April $50 Prize Winner: Britney Truong - Biology
• April $50 Prize Winner: Hussain Fatehi - Merrill College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Maureen Eberhardt - Spanish Studies
• April $50 Prize Winner: Oceana Silveira - Psychology, Kresge College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Julia Stewart - Astrophysics, Crown College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Newton Novak
• April $50 Prize Winner: Naitik Poddar - Crown College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Aileen Flandez - Sociology and Education, Democracy, and Social Justice
• April $50 Prize Winner: Venkat Sykam - Computer Science, John R. Lewis College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Maximillian Haber - Anthropology

Bookshop Santa Cruz winners!

• In addition, during the 2022 survey, more than twenty $25 giftcards for Bookshop Santa Cruz were awarded!