Following up on @ukfan72’s post, those attending should have gotten an email with those dates. My son totally missed it. 
(Fortunately, by the time he ran across it, he still had time to get it done.) In case you need it, here are the requirements and their dates, by weekend: https://www.uky.edu/seeblueU/content/information
@Momto2too thanks for the link! Go Lexington !
Anyone else going to Merit Weekend tomorrow?
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Let us know how merit weekend was. Was anyone unsure about attending UKy, and now you’re sold? My daughter and I are going for our 2nd visit April 7 (traveling from Austin, TX). She is only a junior, so she will be applying this fall IF the Patterson is still available!
We were 100% committed to UK already and attended this weekend. S is engineering college with minor in music. We thought that this was well organized and material was very helpful. The advising sessions went smoothly and he is registered for all Fall classes and got his first choice of the Honors College course he wanted and his schedule is 10:00-3:00 every day.
Get there early if you want to get a student ID made! We got there around noon and no waiting. By 1:00 the line was 50 yards long.
Visited the UK Art Museum which currently has a cool photo exhibit featuring Doris Ulmann/Andy Warhol.
Campus construction is winding down on most everything at this point and the “newness” of everything is impressive. Still building the new student center and Lewis Hall for Honors. Overall, I was impressed and jealous that I attended back in the stone ages before all the capital investment.
Some advice, get to the parking garage early on Friday, the girls basketball NCAA was in town so parking was limited, I don’t know about the next 2 weekends. The garage doesn’t have a normal entrance you enter to the left of an island :-). There was plenty of signage to get from the garage to the Singletary Center which is a lovely building. As stated by Backbeatcat get your ID early (I can’t imagine what the line looks like during K week). The ID location and where you bought lunch was really crowded, probably more so when students are around so have some patience.
We stayed by the airport at a courtyard, if you are doing the same eat breakfast at the waffle house on Friday, the courtyard breakfast was very expensive. There was plenty to eat at the event if you don’t have any diet restrictions. I didn’t see any variety on Friday but I also wasn’t looking.
The presentations were very informative especially the break out sections for the parent/child for their college major choice. We went to the engineering one, they did an awesome job. Do NOT forget a laptop or iPad so your child can register for classes. The Saturday session was broken out for parents at one local, the child someplace else. The parents got a “what to do in Lexington” which would be really useful if you have young kids, a health presentation, and a safety one, both were really well done.
Overall I give UKY an A for the weekend, it is very well done, runs with military precision, don’t be late!
I’m curious how the course registration worked since this is my oldest. Did the advisor have a list of recommended classes for them or are do they do it on their own? How much prep did your child do for that? A general idea of classes or a list of specific days/times?
For engineering, hard core stem, and business program they credited yourAP and college classes then gave you a list of what you were taking, you then went ahead a picked your first class to your last one on the list. The engineers didn’t get many options. It was pretty easy you used your UKY ID and logged in it took my son about an hour in the hotel. The advisor then reviewed it the next day. Forgot to mention they gave you a newspaper like catalog of a bizzillion class listings.
Icing on cake: new dorms, access to honors college, friendly campus, very well regarded for STEM, Registered Nursing 
My s is attending merit weekend this upcoming Friday. It looks like the first thing we have to attend is at 4pm on Friday? Most interested in student ID and registering for classes. He will be in the business school LLP. Do they assign an advisor to them? Do they chat one on one to know what they should sign up for? Can you obtain the student ID only on Friday or also Saturday?
@houndpup We attended this past weekend. Signups for foreign language placement exams started at 11am on Friday; opening session was at 2pm. Lines are long and it takes a while to park so make sure you get there early. You can get student ID on Friday, or on Saturday 10-2. Your student will need to show a driver’s license or other government photo id in order to obtain the student ID. Can’t speak for the business college, but advising was not one-on-one for my kid who is in College of Arts and Sciences. I think they just put the kids in a room with 4-5 people who went around and helped them.
@VandyAlum93 what time does it wind down on Friday (to get ready for dinner?)
@2sunny UK will feed you dinner on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Friday consists of various presentations until 8:40pm, with a brief break around 5pm for casual sandwiches and chips. Saturday sessions last from 8:15am-2pm with a casual breakfast in the morning and lunch at “The 90” at 12:15pm.
Also have a S in A&S, and was same for him - room of advisers. It was a little confusing for him, but he got it done.
Be sure to take the foreign language placement exam, even if you are a stem kid. Do get in the queue for your ID, I have heard horror stories about doing it K week, even a long line during merit weekend is significantly shorter than the 1st week of school. S did the ID on Friday it took 20 minutes, he did take the 1st foreign language placement exam at 11 ish.
I would recommend getting there early Friday if you want to do a campus tour or explore the campus. There was a tour offered that left from the Singletary but it was during the foreign language exam my son was in. Also recommend getting registered and then eating in a dining hall before coming back for the welcome at 2. As mentioned above, there was food available, but not a typical student dining experience, and my son wanted to see what that was like. Also, in case your student has not checked this, there are 4 year curricular maps online for each major. This will give your student a good idea of what to register for. It was not a problem to remove pre-enrolled classes if those did not work due to other conflicts. However, because students were pre-enrolled in WRD 112, my son was not able to switch to another section of that class as he’d hoped. The class and waitlist were full. I thought it was a well-organized weekend with lots of great information. Very worthwhile!
Our D, a freshman at UK with sophomore standing, changed her major over the summer before school started and worked with her advisor to make all the neccessary changes over email. Painless.
Also, don’t forget taking the foreign language placement test, is just that = placement. If you place ahead, don’t forget the CLEP test as a way to get credit(s). Our D was not in AP for foreign language in HS, so she took the CLEP test at the beginning of summer.
I went this past weekend w/ D. We arrived at 11:30, parking was easy. Got registered, signed up for language exam and were given folders w/her info. Went over to get student ID- super easy, no line and walked right in. Was $15 for ID & $5 for optional plastic holder. The language exams were running VERY late; we found out later that the first group had 50 kids for 25 computers, so it just snowballed from there. Ran so so far behind we didn’t have a chance to eat and we were 30 minutes late for the 2:00 kickoff presentation. The evening ended at 8:40.
Saturday morning, the kids and parents went separate ways. Parents were bussed over to the stadium for info about the school (books, parking, health info, etc) and info about things to do in Lexington. During breaks it was nice to step outside and watch the football players and see the stadium. While parents were at the stadium the kids talked to their advisors and made their schedules. Since it was a beautiful day, a bunch of us parents walked back to meet up with our kids for lunch.
Some recommendations:
- Eat before the program starts on both days. The food was not our taste and once the seminars start, you don’t have an opportunity to get something else.
- Friday night we looked over the preloaded schedule on my D’s UK account and well as requirements for her majors and the honors college along with how her AP classes impacted credit and placement.
- On Saturday they give the scores for the language exam. (We were pleasantly surprised that D tested out- I didn’t know that was possible)
Overall had a really good experience and my D is now on board with going to UK.