UC Undergraduate Experience Survey Prize Winners
Prizes for the 2024 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey
The UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) starts on April 2, and there will be over 100 prizes awarded! Prize drawings will start from the very first week of the survey! Taking the survey early increases your chances of winning a prize.
Prizes throughout 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 the Spring quarter to see who has won a prize! Prizes may be subject to change.
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!