<p>I mean, the most important part about it is the signing up for classes which you can do w/o going..and i have a late orientation, i prob wont be getting all the classes i need anyway. I had a free trip to LA for the black admit weekend.. and it was like the same thing. you stayed on campus for 3 days, you gotta long tour, and walk around for like 4 hours, and they fed us better at black admit weekend...and you guys have the finaid, where your paying 400 as your initial payment..i have to pay almost 2000 for mine, with installments, 500, then 600 then 900..so you have to understand i dont want to spend money unless its very necessary..</p>
<p>Direct quote from my orientation counselor: “If you don’t go to orientation, you’re kind of screwed.” Take that how you will. She continued by saying that the only way to get a halfway decent enrollment time would be (for example) to show an academic counselor a travel itinerary that proves that you’ll be out of the country for all of the sessions. I know this is biased coming from a paid orientation counselor, but I believe there’s truth to it. I’m also pretty sure that there is financial aid available in the form of a fee waiver, if that is what you need in order to be able to attend.</p>
<p>Lol, that quote coming from an orientation counselor…
You’re definitely not screwed. I skipped orientation last year because I wasn’t gonna spend a roundtrip plane ticket just to go tour around and etc… Sure it’s fun to meet people before and all that, but it’s not necessary. I still got all the classes I wanted by enrolling at home. They’ll ask you to answer a couple of questions regarding enrollment times, dropping classes, impacted classes, etc…</p>
<p>Hey jiceo1, I’m not going to orientation this year either, and seriously confused. What do you mean they’ll ask you to answer a couple of questions? Is this at home while you were enrolling or at school? Thanks!</p>