<p>I will be attending SOAR for transfer students on the 12th and 13th. I want to bring my girlfriend along as we want to do some other things in the SLO and Pismo beach area. </p>
<p>Do I need to purchase the family support thing? I’m under the impression it is an entirely separate schedule and they do their own thing. I just want my girlfriend to be with my while walking around the campus and doing the events. Will there be any problem with this? </p>
<p>The main reason why I’m attending SOAR is just for advising and class registration, and to specifically get other upper division courses waived that I took at another 4-year university. From the schedule it looks like all this falls under day 2. Am I able to opt out of the other stuff just to do this?</p>
<p>Yeah, with SOAR, and WOW as well, all activities are optional. If you only want to go to a few workshops, that’s fine. You’ll probably have to still pay for everything though. And you don’t need to sign your girlfriend up, at least I don’t think. But they might give you some sort of name tag or something, and if she doesn’t have one, that could possibly be an issue. Most of the stuff seems to be informational lecture type things, so it might not be that interesting for her though. I’m sure she could find her own thing to do while you attend that stuff if she’s not able to attend as well.</p>
<p>SOAR is pretty loosely put together, you & friend will be able to opt in or out of all but one thing, lunch. They served a tri-tip BBQ last year which required you to have a ticket. Lunch would not justify paying for the whole package, and no other activity required any formal check in. Lots of different options for lunch on or off campus. Sage restaurant across from the Performing Arts Center serves a pretty good lunch.</p>