Joining me today is Dr. Cheryl Klein, who is our deputy dean at the college. And she's also the Aramark shared professor in the hospitality department. Marshall Robinson, who is our Senior Assistant Dean for Student Services and we'll also is in charge of our undergraduate advising. And you will get to know your advisors here very well. And Alex human, who is our Learn, recruitment and visitor experience coordinator. They're all going to be here behind the scenes to help answer questions. And as you should notice just for a moment, if you look at the top of your screen, there should be a Q and a, where it might be under the dot, dot, dot more. But we invite you to put your questions in. And we were Bechdel ask questions as we move through some of the slides that I hope will give you an orientation to the couch. Also Joining me are several learners, students who I'll introduce in a few moments. We'll be happy to answer these questions and are probably in the best position to tell you what it's like to be a student, Hitler or college, and how they made their choice to choose lunar a college. So you'll note that you're all muted because we're in a webinar. If you're not for some reason, please make sure you are unmuted. And again, use the Q and a function. A function. So let's go ahead and get started. And what I want to spend a few minutes on are the five key differentiators that we think make Lerner College a great place to being undergraduate. First off, we have over 17 thousand undergraduate students at the university and 4000 graduate students from thes numbers. You can see that we are primarily focused on undergraduate education and making sure that we provide a great student experience for our undergraduates. This includes the many student clubs, social events, student life, sports, internships. And the list goes on on top of an outstanding academic experience. Now, I taught at New York University for many, many years, which is a very fine business school. But they're, the primary focus was on graduate students. And personally, I believe that the undergraduate experience suffered as a result of that. So it's a, I think it's really important when you're looking at different schools, is how strongly are they focused on the undergraduate experience? And this is something that we really pride ourselves on. Secondly, we have very high-quality programs and faculty work, AACSB accredited, which you can see in the upper right hand, sorry, dyslexic, upper left-hand corner of your screen. And that is the gold standard for business schools. So think of that as the good housekeeping seal of approval. We're also highly ranked program. We rank in the top 100. I think this year we were actually top 75. And when you consider There's over 2000 business programs, that's quite a feat. And one small piece of advice when you're, when you're looking, you D or any other business school, make sure that every CSP accredited because again, it's an assurance of quality. But also if you want to transfer your courses from one business school to another, we don't accept courses unless they come from an AACSB accredited school. So that's important to keep in mind as you're on your, your journey looking at different colleges. Third pillar is large enough to offer many majors and minors. We have approximately 4 thousand students in the college pod with over 3000 being undergraduate students. And because of that, we have over 17 majors. We can offer a large number of majors morning you're gonna find that most business schools, and we also have many minors. I'm going to go through the list of those in a few minutes. But this gives you a lot of opportunity to determine what you want do with your career and tour that interests. Using are many majors and minors to help you focus. But importantly, we're also small enough where a very personal place. Most of our class sizes are between 35 to 55. We're never going to find a 1000 C accounting class at University of Delaware, which you'll find in another state school not too far from here, but I'm not going to mention who they are. I don't know. Rather be a smaller class where I get to know my faculty and get to know the students in my class as well. We also offer one-on-one advising. We have tutoring and Student Tutoring, and one of our students today is the Director of Student Tutoring and career services, which I'll talk about also to make sure that you're successful. And finally, I drop in a small town and then move to, ended up moving to New York City for many years. And know art is a small college town. But it's very close to the major urban hubs that Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and New York City. So I personally think you'd get that small town college scaling with the accessibility to major urban centers, which I think is the best of both worlds. These five key differentiators are part of what we believe allows our students to be so successful. We learn, we know that your educations and investment, which is why we're very proud that the University of Delaware is constantly ranked among the top colleges and universities for return on investment. So let me move forward and give you a few quick facts. I've already mentioned the ranking, but you also should be aware this is very important. I'm sure your parents is that 77 percent of our students at the University of Delaware graduate in four years, and that's way above the national average. So we get you in and we can make sure that you proceed through because we have one-on-one student advising, you'll meet your advisors your freshman year. They work with you individually on your schedules and help you plot out your plan for what you may want to major in. And by the way, you may have no idea what you want to major in when you arrive here and that's fine. And you'll be taking some courses that will help you determine that. Be working very closely with your advisors here. The vast majority of our classes are taught by our full-time faculty, are PhD qualified faculty. And we have a few actions that we use in various courses where it makes sense to use their business experience. As I mentioned, you don't have to know what you want to major on when you come here. You could apply to learn college as business undeclared. And there is no penalty for being business undeclared. You'll progress through the program as quickly. Anybody who comes in thinking they, they want to be a an accountant or perhaps a human resource specialist, or a banker. So you have plenty of time to really make the choice. And so get out of here and four years will just suddenly move forward. As I mentioned, we have over 1717 different majors, everything from business analytics, accounting, hospitality, international business marketing, sports management, management, information systems, finance, financial planning and wealth management. Global enterprise management, you name it. So we have a lot of different majors that allow you to, as you're going through the program, to start thinking about what I really want to do for my career. And then to choose a major that's going to best match those career interests. And by the way, you can double-major. And over a third of our students do double major, and you can choose a major outside the business school as well. So you could major, let's say in Italian and international business, that would be of interest to you. We also offer a lot of miners and as you can see here, everything from advertising. That's a bad management. They come down here and mentioned some of the newer ones that we have, a professional selling and sales management. And by the way, why people don't think that sale should be their career. I will tell you that doing business to business sales is a very lucrative and very exciting career. And a lot of our students are surprised to find that out when they start taking courses in the minor, spy and wellness management and trust management. One of our students today admiring and trust management. And trust management is one of our newest Myers and it really helps prepare you for a career working with large trust and helping those trust manage their funds. And Delaware, as you may not be surprised to know, is the center for trust management in the United States. And so we're very closely tied to the trust banks who hire our students into their, into their banks. So I think you will find that you have lots of choices and get my slide to move. Almost half of our students have more written as a major and over half of them have more than one minor. So again, you can certainly like tailor your experience here to best fit what your interests are and what your plans are. Now, we're very proud to say that over 90 percent of our students graduate. Washington numbers closer at 95% that graduate with real-world experience, which is very important. It's also why our placement statistics are so high. Because businesses now that students here don't just learn the theory of business and finance, and marketing and accounting and so on. They learn how to do this in practice in the business world. And that's a very important factor. So i campus, we have several experiential learning centers. That gets wow, trading center, which is in the upper left-hand corner. That's a semi-rural you're trading room. And I worked on Wall Street by the way for many years at Morgan Stanley. And this looks like a trading room, a smaller training, but what you find in a smaller investment bank or investment firm. But you have all the real-world systems that traders use, the Bloomberg terminals and students beside from free workshops to learn how to use this technology regardless of what your major is. It's also home to the blue hand Investment Club, which manages several million dollars of the university's endowment. And I believe last year they outperform the university investment expert. Now we're always very proud when that is the case. The middle is one South Main that is the home to our Career Services Center. Learn is the only college with its phone Career Services. We have a number of programs out of Career Services and I'll talk about in the next slide. It also is where we have some of our high-tech rooms and where we also have our collaboration rooms that students can reserve so they can work in teams and groups and using some of our technology. Next up, let's see what am I moving to? The JPMorgan Chase Innovation Center on the upper right hand corner, that is the first floor pronoun Hall. And by the way, that there is a real vast JPMorgan space, I can get access to that space unless I have somebody who's got JP Morgan ID. They hire between 1680 of our students every year, largely in the technology areas, to work on their technology projects. And they pay JP Morgan salaries. So those of us on the faculty at all, He's very envious of our students who are working there. But it's a great experience in many of those students go on to work for JPMorgan after graduation. So it's a terrific opportunity. If we move down to the data nova. I think I mentioned before, didn't know that. And the Maryann, these are home to our hospitality students who are learning the hospitality business management. Now, while you learn to cook in the restaurant, are we going to expect you to be a cook? We expect you to be Washington's, go on to run restaurants, hotels, various types of resorts and whatnot. So you have to learn all those different desk skills, customer service skills and so on to be effective. And it's a great program and our students are very sought after in the market. Let's see. And then certainly last but not least, is our horn Venture Development Center, which is the entrepreneurial hub for the university, offers students spaces to collaborate, come up with new ideas for products. There are several pitch competitions. We have investors that come into who have hundreds of thousands of dollars looking to invest in new ideas and out. We have pitch programs that really works out. I guess over our students have turned into quite successful entrepreneurs. And so that's your interest and your path. You can certainly do that. Now, if you'd like to start putting questions in the Q and a, please feel free to do that. We won't ask them on quite yet, but if we had on there that will know what we should be focusing on. So let me now move on and talk a little bit about our commitment to diversity. Embracing and advancing diversity is an institutional value at the university and the college. But it's also a priority for business. We know about business cannot really be successful if it does not have a diverse employee population serving a diverse market. And this is stuff we know from the research that's done absolute winner college. And elsewhere. We have several events and initiatives and student organizations that support and encourage diversity. They want to make sure that all people are part of the university, felt welcome and valued in the campus life. And so one thing I did want to point out, we have our learner diversity council, which both faculty students, administrators are part of, and they host various events throughout the year. We have a Women's Leadership Initiative for our students. And our Women's Leadership Institute is one of the, we have, we have two of the world's leading experts in diversity and inclusion who are running that center. And bring in speakers and run listening sessions and do a great deal to help improve diversity and women's leadership. Not just at the university, at a wide variety of industries around the world that they work with. So hopefully, that gives you an idea of how, of our commitment to diversity, but also why it's so important in terms of the university and in terms of business and being successful. So Career Services, something very important for all of you. I want to talk a little bit about different programs. They're going to start over with our career experts panel. Again, with the only school that has its own independent career services. We have one-on-one career, career advising and career coaching. You also will meet our career coaches in your some of your classrooms. And they're going to have you start working on your resume from the very first semester you're here. And so we get you thinking about job preparing yourself for a job, preparing yourself for putting together your resume, and learning how to be a really great interviewer. So we have an expert correct Strokes panel where we bring in people from around the around the US to talk about how to do a job search, how to overcome impostor syndrome. What are some important interviewing and Career Lessons from their own experience? And these are always recorded and posted and available to you if you can't attend the live of that. We also have our learner edge program, which is where our advisory board members, our alumni board members come in and they work directly with students so that they learn how to create a standard resume, but also to be an impressive interviewer. What do you say and what do you not say? Something very interview, very important. And we have our road to Wall Street. For those of you who are interested in finance occupation, in the occupations in the finance and banking field. We had this program. We take a group of about 30 students a year down to Wall Street. They meet with our a Wall Street advisory board, which are made up, made up a very senior leaders inside of a variety of the financial service firms in New York. And they got a chance to meet with them, to interview with them. And as a result of those connections, many of our students are getting internships in the Wall Street banks, which by the way is very important because now I'm having worked in a Wall Street bank. Most people get their jobs through their internships on Wall Street. So keep that in mind that we believe the internships are extremely important and we set our students up for internships early on. We're also very proud of our executive mentoring program. And that program we pay our students and by the way, anybody can apply sophomore year and above. We want you to have a little experience under your belt. And in that program, we connect you with an executive and a field that you're interested in. And these many squares will talk to, will say they have a mentoring program, or is not just a mentoring program, that's the executive mentoring program. We bring in our executives who have ten to 25 years of work experience. So they're generally very senior, very seasoned, and our students work with those mentors. Oftentimes they're finding their first job through their mentor. And many times we hear from our students that they're taking to you that relationship app even after graduation and become somebody they can turn to for career advice as their journey through their career. And finally, I think this is falling before I get to stop talking and gets a turn it over to the real experts that our students are internships. Again, very important people always want internships. You'll notice at the bottom, in 2019 to 2020, there were over 7 thousand in terms ships for business students and our height handshake system, 82% of those were paid. And for those of you who are from New York, New Jersey area, and I'm interested in jobs in that area. About 30 percent of the jobs are located in that area. But there are jobs all across the nation that are posted. Here are just a few of the companies that are involved in our internship program spans. Hiring our students for summer interns, sometimes for semester-long internships. Depending upon the location and your availability. And let me just, I think this is now my last slide is to talk to their success. As you hopefully have a sense. What about we are very focused on our students developing the skills to be successful in whatever career they're focused on. Over 95% of our students. This is within six months of graduation, are employed or pursuing higher education. 91% of our students have raised their experience here as either good or excellent. Almost half of our students accept a job from an organization. Are they insured? Which is why we think internships are so important. And almost all of our students agree that their employment aligned with their career goals. So again, we want you here to help discover what your career interests are, to then support that interests with our cross courses and programs. But then to have student experiences, clubs, and internships that again allow you to polish yourself, to prepare yourself to be re, successful in the, in the, in the business world or the non-profit sector. So now I'm going to introduce most important people here today, which are our students. So I'm going to ask here recognition on your camera and your microphone. And I'm going to let Kara, who is a senior, introduced herself. So take it away. Chiara. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. I'm from New York, Delaware and I'm a double major in finance and economics. I'm heading into my senior year. I'm just a few things that I'm involved with on campus. I'm in the honors program and the student directory peer tutoring, which I would love to talk about more. I'm a peer mentor. I'm the president of women in economics, a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, which is one of our business opportunities on campus and a member, and women and finance. Thank you. Sure. You want to try your camera and let me put us up. Yeah, Good evening everybody. My name is Ray Lucas. I am an incoming junior here at the University of Delaware with a double major in finance and financial planning, wealth management with a minor in trust management. You can see from the list there are a few things that I'm involved with on campus and in the Honors Program. I'm a sector had at the blue had Investment Club. I can explain what that means later on. Also in the learner executive mentoring program, but also I am able to go outside the business school, find opportunities DC by the institute cybersecurity scholars. And I'm being a, i will be a TA for this fall semester. Glad to have everybody here. Thank you very much range here. So I think now what we want to do, and I'm going to just switch over here. Really watch Amazon. And we'd like to make sure that we get your questions. And there are a couple of questions that are already have already been entered. So one question was, can you talk about how students find different internships and programs that Udi has to support students getting one where I'll tell you not to have any difficulty finding the support because we bring the support to you. But Kara, you've had two internships, one at JP Morgan, I want to add with this, but you want to talk about how you found your internships. You have queries. Now, when you go in your freshman year and you're in your introductory business class, I want to say eBay press internships very hard. So from day wine, it's in your head. You know, you friendship. Learners sets you up with so many resources. So where my software you're going into my junior year, summer. I'm I going to do with status, but I got that because I went to a career fair that was twisted by learner. So you walk into this huge auditorium and there are hundreds of companies with tables and representatives. You get to talk with them one-on-one, hand them your resume. And I actually got two offers from that day. Just because learners set it up. They came to our school now with JP Morgan. And there's also program pod handshake, which every single UD student uses. Learner actually has its own page with an handshake and it'll do all these job listings. So I saw JP Morgan on there. I applied, but I would like to say that professors want you to succeed it to the point where they go out of your way to. I met with a professor and he was asking me interview questions where my JP Morgan, I had another professor wanting me to work out the bad. So everyone's invested in you and from day one you're always getting your internships. This is how you can do it. So there's so many different opportunities. And I know when I was a freshman, I was so concerned about getting an internship because that's all you hear. And UD basically they get you with an internship, I want to say in the tub while you're doing your internships. Yeah. So I'd wish I was in the retail bank, So I was dealing with customers, bouncing ledgers and off that with JP Morgan this summer I am doing interest rate risk and liquidity risk. So we're basically taking everything from it, all lines of businesses, from the bank. We're looking at it and we want to see where we're investing money, where we're exposed to risk, and how to allocate different fines in order to mitigate the risk. And it's been such a great learning experience. And I know so many people are sitting classrooms and say omega is like, when am I ever going to use best? I have you, marie, things that I've learned in a classroom I think than I ever thought I way to OMB and it's that real life experience, but it's going to get, you know, I think furthering your career. Excellent. Thank you. And how did you find your internships and just a little bit about your internship? Yes. So right now I'm going into my junior year, so it's what you would call it a sophomore summer internship tends to be the right lingo for it, but for this one, because I'm not in Delaware right now, I'm actually back up in Massachusetts. I had to use some my own connections up here for being able to find the internship I'm doing right now. It's pretty broad and when I get to do I get to do some auditing work. I get to do some project work. I get to really kinda get to touch a whole bunch of different areas of finance, which is great. But I will echo that everything, everything that Kara said about what UT does for internships, I don't think I mentioned earlier, I'm also in the road to Wall Street program. So I'm being right now, I've even talked to somebody today who is an actual law Street professionals. So the school is constantly throwing opportunities that you Point where you're almost going to have to decide which ones you're not interested in. It's not a situation of can I find opportunities? It's which ones am I really not interested in? Because I have a whole bunch of other opportunities that I can try to take advantage of. So it's really quite remarkable and I would really encourage everyone here to take away from this. In schools everywhere are going to sell you on their career services, on outcomes, et cetera. Delaware thoroughly follows through on everything that it says. I've seen it already. And it's really phenomenal ability and opportunities that you have to find different career opportunities. And right here in the blue hat Investment Club, is that right? So we have a student here has asked about you talk about the investment club and what you guys do. Yeah, absolutely. So the blue and Investment Club be HQ for short, but I'll I'll take the long-form approach. It's a entirely student run investment group. We call it a club, but it might as well be a mini firm because we right now have the portfolio valued at about 3.3 million. And that's coming off of years ago, just a seed amount of 500000 dollars the university gave us. We set the goal far, so ourself every year that we want to beat the S and P 500 were very consistent. I liked and I'm happy to say we're very consistent in beating that mark and outperforming the S and P. But like I said earlier, my position there is I'm a sector head. It's just a tier structure really for how you break up the organization. We do it along the sector lines of the S and P. I'm in charge of the information technology sector, but that's kinda beside the point. The important thing to take away is the hands-on learning experience that I've gotten from the club. It's been a great Because I came into it my second semester, freshman year. And that was before I'd even taken a finance class and I was able to go into my finance classes kinda already knowing a little more than I was expecting to and then also being able to take what I learned in the classroom and apply it to what I do in the club. The other thing I would note is the club and people who, anyone who can use the trading lab has access to Bloomberg terminals that can't be understated either because those are very commonly used on Wall Street or quite frankly, any finance career, wherever you are and very unique that students have the ability to use them. So it's been a great organization. I've learned more than I would have ever expected to in any sort of student organization. And really it's been a highlight of my career so far. That's great. Thank you so much time. So I'm not questioning. I think I'm going to answer. It says, do I apply directly to learner as an incoming freshman? Or do I apply afterwards? And this is very important. You apply if you have any thoughts that you wanted the business and the business school apply directly to the business school. The problem is sometimes people will apply to the University Studies Program, which is sort of like university undeclared. But once you're here at the university, it's much harder to transfer into the business school because we have a relatively high GPA requirement that then to get in the business school as a freshman applicant. So my recommendation, as you always apply to the business school, and you can, and you do choose to majors that you're interested in it. You could always choose a second major outside the business school. Make sure it's your second major, not your first major. And so if something happens in your application in the business school is not successful, you'll still be considered for another program outside the business school. But don't apply to university studies or any other major outside the business school. If you think you ought to be in the business school, it's must easier to get in that way your freshman year if you don't do as well as you think you might do because there are a lot of adjustments that you have to make. Your you're safe. Where if you're in another school and you don't do quite so well, but it's hard to get in the business school. So just I can't emphasize that enough. So I'm not making that a big deal, but it is a big deal. And I think on I'm trying remember, was it here, did you come in is undeclared or was that Raman let me see. I'm not a victim in business and declared. So you both took my words of advice very seriously when you were here four years ago. So a person who was asking about the sports management program, I'm gonna come back to that one. I don't think either ramen or Chiara on in the sports management program. I guess what I'll say about that quickly is that you take all of our standard business courses in addition to the sports management programs, were also very tightly allied with the UT athletic program. And so that a lot of the students there will do in some of their courses, they do exponential worked out at the end the UD athletic program. So we had one student who was working with the athletic director as sort of their secondhand person and got tremendous experience. A lot of our students will end up interning at some of the large sports organizations in the area or in term or in the stadiums. A lot of them end up going into sports marketing type roles. So that I think would be, I think that's helpful for people to know are interested in sports management area. Compiler will also depend. If you'd love finance and you've taken a lot of finance courses. You can also look at sports, but a sports, a financial sports pouring into the organization. So there's a variety of things and the sports management faculty at very closely allied with a lot of different sports organizations, including the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee. And so they will help you find internships and positions. So hopefully that helps answer that question. And then I see another one here that wants to know. Is calculus required for all majors million learners, specifically sports management? I'm quite sure I believe the answer to that. I'm going to ask Marsha Rawlinson to type an answer in the Q and a and case I'm wrong. But I don't believe sports management requires calculus. You don't have all the other I think hospitality sports management did not have a calculus requirement, but all the other degrees with Lerner College do have a calculus requirement and marshes typing an answer now. So if I'm wrong, please check your answer in the Q and a. And then I see another question here about is there a specific major or minor that gets you started to work with the JPMorgan site in the cure you worked at JP Morgan. You did not work in the Innovation Center, is that correct? Yes. So in my understanding, the innovation centers, they're looking for people that have strong technology backgrounds as well as some understanding of finance. Because you're working largely with their technology division in the innovation program and starting the innovation hub that they have at the university. So a good question now both Kara and Raman are double majors with minors, of course, because there are outstanding. And I'm Sam has asked how demanding are classes learn, how much longer will it take if I decide to double major and cured? You want to start with that? Yeah. So learner may say, I don't want to say easy to double-major, but it's nice because a bunch of the business courses overlap with one another. So I think in total I had to cheat to win our courses to finish my double-major in the course of four years. But that's because I chose to do five classes per semester instead of doing the allotted, you can do up to next classes if you want. Your most people do five. But it is extremely easy to double-major in learner. And I have a ton of brands that double-major with one major in learner and then another outside of learner. And you just work with your advisor. And I actually had one of my advisors, right. An exception for me, one of my classes because I was integrating with JP Morgan. I'm sorry, I did not exempt from one of the classes. Now, your advisors really work with you in order to make sure that you're graduating within four years? What's your experience? But yeah, I don't think I could have said it better myself. It's you're not going to die. Doing it is really easy. If that's your, that's your fear that you're going to be overwhelmed. Don't worry. It wasn't the most eloquent way of saying it, but that's kinda just very straightforward. Top notch advisors make it really, really easy for you to plan ahead. Now. Just to put it in perspective, I think part of it also depends on how much credit you come into the university with. In my case, if I adjust on finance, I would have I think could have been done. Diana, my junior year, I chose to elect the other major and add the minor. And because there's a lot of overlap in the early classes about even between majors in terms of what's going to be required for that major specific specifically, I'm still going to be able to graduate in four years and have the lightest class load that I could that'll have of my entire four-year career within the two semesters of my senior year. Granted, I did too when our courses in a summer course. But even then, you can keep a pretty consistent five or six classes per semester, majority five classes and still get it done. So you really shouldn't feel like it's going to be an issue. And the university makes it really easy for you to be able to take the classes and do the majors that you want to enroll in. So right. How did you decide on the majors that you've chosen? Yeah, So finance and financial planning and wealth management, they sound similar, but they really aren't that similar at their core in terms of what career options you might engage with. The reason I decided to blend the two is. Who's going to allow me to graduate in four years. But that would really apply with any other majors. What really attracted me to them is I went in with finance. That's what i general understanding of business. It's always helpful to know good career options afterwards. But with the financial planning, it's something I've always been interested in. And I go out and I would say it's a very unique major to Delaware, just like trust management. I don't I certainly in my search, did not see other schools that had those offerings. It so it was ultimately be contributor of light came to Delaware as well. But in interest aspect as well as the Course Content when you've got and get, actually get into your major specific classes. A lot of content about planning for the future and tax, tax law, et cetera. So it blended really nicely. And I felt that would give me a really good holistic view of two similar but can potentially very different areas of the financial world. And cure. Same question for you. How did you choose your majors? So I actually came in as an international business major. I am the type of person that likes the path like I want to hear Pi. So I was sitting in the UUID. The introductory business. They gave, you were presentations on every single major and the entire school. So that when I got here, I really didn't know why an econ major, what Intel or what a finance major one entail. So I wanted to kind of experience everything. So in that introductory business, you get exposure to everything. And then you also take an introductory econ class. Now I absolutely love my introductory class. That was one of my honors classes. And I connected and certainly with the professor and she actually helped me choose finance. And now I'm so happy because I get the qualitative and quantitative side kind of mixed together, I would say ipython, although it's quantitative at times you get so much theory. And you get to talk about policies and all that. But then with finance, you get to use a lot of your technology skills. I learned so much Excel. I'm with my, with my major so far. So don't be afraid to come in undecided and wait to see what you like to jail because you will get exposed to every single major that UT has to offer. Yeah, I think that's great advice cure that declared as this fine because you have up until the first semester of your sophomore year to freely choose any major within the college as long as you have the right math requirement. So I keep that in mind. And SQL said we do have that first business class, which really is exposing you to all the different disciplines of business. So that even though you may not know what you want to do when you enter by the time you finish that freshman year jail? Yes. Much better idea. But I will tell you we have students that that change major up to their end of their junior year, and that's still possible depending upon major you might choose. Now the tail, you are clearly great students, but you must do something for fun. So what sorry, do you do at around campus for fun? What do you guys do to have fun? And renounced pass it back to you for that person over to Cara. Sure. So one of the things I don't think we've talked a lot about it is the sheer number of clubs to do at UT. I don't know the number, but it's in the multiple hundreds. So if first off, I'll just say that you can find an organization that's going to be tailored to some specific interests. But if you're not trying to do some formal organization, one of the great things about Delaware is I would say the campus layout, campus environment. The green is one of the best places to be. In the spring and early fall. It's gorgeous, the trees and there's a lot of open space. So you'll always see people kicking balls around, throwing frisbees, everything, run it all over the place. So there's always things like that to do with your friends. If you want to just do casual activities. There's a movie theater or plays. So if you're interested in those, you can go to those. If you can think of it's something you want to do, you're going to be able to find where to do it and a group of people to do that certain activity with. So I mean, personally for me, you saw blue and Investment Club, which some of you might not sound fun to me. It's riveting. But those are the types of variety that you're going to be able to find it. Ud. Thank you. Thank you. I'm looking at your resume. You have a ton of different student organizations that you've been involved or leading. So why don't you tell us what you do for fun? Yes, I'm involved in a lot of organizations which has died because you get to network and you get to know really. You're going to realize that learner, it is such a small communities. So when you walk in the doors of learner, you are going to now so many people with HIV, you're involved in these clubs and you're involved in this, the classes and everything. So it's a great opportunity to grow your community. So I do a lot with clubs, but I also just like hanging out with brands on Alpha Kappa Psi is. So they're a part of Greek life, so their business opportunity, but it's also a Snell's law for excreted as well. So we code a lot of social events. We do fund-raising, which has been great. I knew aren't in general, it's such a peaceful area just to go outside. Don't want to walk. I'm from New York, Delaware but it's more I was from like more hope has an area. So it's actually funny the first time that I ever visited dollar campus, I didn't not know dollar was not very like I was walking around campus and my sister and I were blown away by how pretty it lies on 0 was going to find new thing salaries. Such a great community. My friends and I like going on Main Street, eating around, so it's a great splendor songs to know. So I will say for everybody who's attending tonight, if you've not been on campus and on a campus tour, I strongly recommend you come to campus. And I would wait and do that probably in September at best boss wants all the students are back on campus. We've got a chance to really experience the student life and how many things there are to engage in and participate in. So I think that's something that would be valuable for people to do to get a real sense of the University of Delaware. And I always love it when I have new arc. People come to look at the university because they rocked by the South College for years and never walk past. Have any idea that there's a major research university here. I think that's something so cute, I love your story. Thank you. So see what other questions we have here. We consider the environment within large to be competitive. So when you say a small competitive or more supportive than cure it, you want to take that 1 first? Yeah. So I'm in the business opportunity for proper size. How? Honestly, it's a mix of both. But when it comes down to it, it's everyone's bringing everyone. So there's kind of a drive that you want to do the best that you can because we're surrounded by the smartest people. Like I remember getting into AKS thigh and learner. Oh my goodness, these people are so smart. And it kinda just raise my bar for me a little bit. So in that sense, it makes them more competitive. If you wanted to do it like if you feel the need to be competitive, there's that environment. But overall it's very supportive. So you're never going to be in a class where people will like, will help one another. It's very collaborative community. Even in the business Britain or anywhere, I would say it's kind of everyone is so smart. Everyone is getting engineering shapes and people are posting all the time openings for jobs, new opportunities. So it's a great community and I think it's kind of that mixture of both where you can really push yourself if you want to be so many people around you that are doing that. But take, take advantage of the community that's there and the support that's offered. And you also are doing, you're also the president of the student or the student vector of peer tutoring. So you wanna talk a little bit about peer tutoring, which I think is an important opportunity for our students to like to hear about. Yes, So first off, I want to say this scheme, this opportunity was presented to me because of one of my connections with the faculty's. Now, when I say that the faculty really care, they really, really care like they will reach out to you, they'll present new opportunities and it's kind of what you make of the situation. So I had one of my freshman year professors reach out to me. He wanted to start a tutoring program. And it wanted to be like a student generic program where you're going to feel you're not going to feel pressured. You can ask as many questions as you want to. So it's a great community because what we do is we break down. We had about 200 people sign up last semester and we personalize every single group. So a class you're doing, the tutor that you're with, what times works for you and you're going to be in a small group. And it's great to see because sometimes you're in these classes and you're too afraid to talk out loud, like it. You're afraid to speak up. And with tutoring, you kinda get the best of both worlds where you can talk. I'm asked a lot of questions bigger also, I think really engaged in the material as well. And I know tutoring is super important and it's advertised, Oliver learner on there somebody opportunities. So it's been a great experience just to watch the program Rao and definitely don't be afraid to get tutoring. I know some of the smartest people still want to get tutoring because they want that comfortable environment, they want more problems to work on. So it's just a great community. That's a great example of how supportive the students are of each other and helping each other be successful. Now I want to make one clarification. Questions come in about if I haven't taken precalc. I haven't taken calculus. Can I still be admitted into the program? And the answer is yes. We don't expect you to have calculus coming in. But while you're here, if you're a marketing interested in marketing, you will take a calculus course and an upper level stats course unless you were to place out of them when you do the math proficiency exam that you take to place you into the appropriate math course when you come in. So you do not need to have calculus to apply, but we will, most of the majors, you will need calculus if you want to graduate with that major. I know that BA in economics, it's not require that the BS and economic status for instance. So again, there are few programs where the requirements are different. We see it. What else did I miss your O what does the typical freshman year look like as far as classes? So Raman, you finished your sophomore years outright. You're moving into the junior year. So soft freshman years probably still fresh in your mind, what was freshman Freshman year look like in terms of classes for you? Right? So it was a five class five class split per semester. It's pretty typical. I think you're going to see almost everybody do in that up. And it was a it was a great experience and I'm just thinking how to frame it because one of the things that I had is one of the I was in the honors program. One of the people in the honors program reached out. How do you want to schedule your classes? What are you interested in taking? And I reached out to them and that for me made it a very easy start to the whole college process because I just watched my sister go through it. She's going into her freshman year, but she did not have and as active of an advisor, she's gone to a different school. Have a different advisor. Reach up. They didn't have she didn't have that same network. There's much more chaotic, I can promise. So I it was a very easy start, but then the freshman year was was great. The housing was amazing because everyone's kinda in the same boat. I don't know anyone and where am I going? So everyone's really able to help each other out and it forms a really great community. I still the people that I live next to freshman year, still talk to them on a daily basis. So and that's not uncommon either. That's very commonplace thing. And then academically, it was a great experience. Professors understand you're new to college and new to the school. So they are always willing to talk with you, always willing to help constantly have office hours available for you to go and chat with them if you need assistance with the concepts. So it's a was a very easy transition for me from high school, which I know is a relatively unique thing for a lot of people outside of UD. So I've had a great experience, cut short second semester by COVID, but I will say the university is still a good job getting that up and running and helped, really help with the transition for all of us to be able to continue with the freshmen your experience as best as possible, but still complete our classes successfully. Great, thank you and care what your course is like your experience like your freshman Freshman year? Yes, I had a great rush me your experience. So like I said, you do that introductory business, whereas when you come into the learner. So that's going to expose you to everything I really enjoyed that I still talk to the professor today. And then you're going to have like a bunch of your breath where he says, So I think theater, I took a history class, they took one of my science class. And so I think because it's freshman year and you're trying to get act for me to renew environment. You might take one or two business classes. We're also going to take breadth classes, go outside the business plot classes, then experience like you wanted to do, theater or in history, just to get those breadth requirements of y. And then I think in my second semester I took an accounting class. Snow, you're getting little by little exposure, I think, to the business versus before you hit your junior year and it's full on major personas. So freshman year it was definitely an easy transition, I think, because you get to experience everything learner has to offer. But maybe not at the heart, grew up although I would say I'm a junior or senior year. So overall, my freshman year experience was absolutely fantastic. Like race that I was in the honors program. And I'm telling you you go into a learner classroom and, you know, so many different people and I was in classes with them and that I would live with them. So learners just a unity inside the Delaware Community. So it makes it really, really special. That's excellent. Thank you. And by the way, you're both honor students, I believe is that correct? And we have somebody who wants to know should they would recommend doing the honors program and wife. So you want to start with that? Yes. And then to answer the question, yes. No. It's A amazing program. I don't know how else to put it. The people, the staff associated with the Honors Program, phenomenal. They always take an interest in every student's curriculum activities. You name it, they want to know about it. So it's just a great environment. And everyone in the program, some incredibly smart people. So we're going to be taking classes with these people throughout your four years. Forms a nice little community right off the bat. And within your major or classes, you're going to form connections and friendships. They're going to carry with you throughout your academic career at college, at the University. But the other thing I'll say is academically it's great because you'll get access to much smaller classes, which gives you a lot of one-on-one time with professors. Which if you haven't picked up on it yet, is a phenomenal thing to have. And those professors are always willing to connect with you and they'll come back to you down the road if there are certain opportunities that arise as well. So yes, I would recommend you go and do the honors program. And for the I think maybe one or two more essays you have to do on the application. It is entirely worth it and then some excellent cure. I'm going to change my question to you is we're just about out of time. I just realized. So NIH, you're a senior, you're going to be looking back. Looking back now your experiences here, why did you pick Delaware and was that a good decision for you? Yeah. I know It's crazy to think that I was senior. I think it's a little bit weird. By I remember when I was coming in as a freshman. I'm from downwards now. I want to take it out. I want you to explore new breathe. Now during everywhere, if you wanted to hear more about the courses and everything that they had. And then reluctantly IDE for a Delaware because my parents just make sure you know what, just look and honestly instantaneously. And I know that sounds corny. I fell in love and I fell like add hall, like you're going to workplaces. And you might see yourself there, but you can you're not going to call it home and through Delaware. That's why it home wants to me. And now that I'm in my senior year at a 100 percent cite, it was the best decision I've ever made. I think the opportunities that I've had here and had been offered have been endless. I've learned so much and it's prepared me I think, tenfold through what the real world has to offer. And I know that the connections that I've made here, whether it be my friends or my professors, those are the connections that are going to last me a lifetime. And shrewdly, Delaware wants you to succeed. So inside the Lerner College, if you choose to calm, you're going to see that everyone around you is invested in you and wants you to do the best. And I think that's why I am today because I had an amazing community, amazing professors and all my peers, just absolutely fantastic. Now I wouldn't change anything. I personally had to let that be the last word because we're just about out of time. I think that's a great way to to end our student panel. And I thank both of you for being here, taking time out of your schedule. I know that our attendees really value what you had to, to share. So I'm going to go back and share my screen just for a moment. And in case you did not get your question answered tonight or you still have questions. Here are some contact, as well as my personal phone number. So everybody get out a pen and paper and write down 3025281505. That is my personal cell phone number. And if you have a question, you can't figure out where to get it answered. You can always text me or call me. My e-mail is there as well. Now, I'm a email and text chunky. So you're going to get an answer from me very, very quickly. So if you have a question, let me know that you attended that you were somebody attending one of the visit day. So I have a reference. If you call me, I'm not going to answer the phone because I have no idea I get too many adjunct cost, but leave a message and I will call you back. So if you don't know where to go when you have a question burning, that has to be answered and you don't know what to do about it. Call me. This is an example of how small personal place, the learner, ecologist. So when you go to your next collars that you're touring, do me a favor and ask their dean for their personal cell phone number and see if you get it. And with that, thank you all for joining us. We had a great time with you all tonight. And again, thank you to my panelists. And why behind the scene, experts were busily answering questions. So thank you, everybody. Have a terrific evening. Take care now.
Lerner Virtual Visit July 22, 2021
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