UC Merced Merritt Writing Program

INCOMING UC MERCED STUDENTS -

The Writing Readiness Review invitation email goes to your OFFICIAL UC MERCED EMAIL ACCOUNT – that’s the email account that ends in “.edu.” The invitation link will not work if you have your UCM emails forwarded to another account.

To complete the placement process, please take the following steps:

1. Access your official UC Merced email account directly via this link: http://o365.ucmerced.edu

2. Look for the Writing Readiness Review invitation email in your UCM email account. If you don't see it right away, search for that exact phrase: Writing Readiness Review.

3. Open the invitation email

4. Click on the SURVEY LINK to begin the placement survey

5. Complete the Writing Readiness Review survey and select your writing course enrollment

Once you have completed these steps and have made a final enrollment decision for your first year writing course, you will have finished the writing placement process.