New Student Days?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Drexel University
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<p>Need to make flight reservations...</p>

<p>New Student Days is listed on the Academic Calendar from September 15-19. What do they do during this time? Should my son plan on being there on the 15th? </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure your son HAS to be there. I’m also a high school senior (presumably like him?) so I don’t know for sure, but my brother’s a junior in college and basically Sept 15-19 acts as the freshman orientation at Drexel before the rest of the Drexel class comes to school. So like how high school freshman had an orientation for their first day at high school, I think college students have their own longer orientation for them to get situated at college before the upperclassmen come in.</p>

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<p>So you are saying the orientation is the 5 days prior to the start of the Quarter and not just individual 1 day sessions/</p>

<p>Thanks for the info.</p>

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<p>Hoping you can open this. It has info about orientation (over the summer) as well as New Student Days - in September. Hope it helps. If you can’t open it, you can pm me and I’ll email it to you.
<a href=“Find Drexel Financial & Registration Information | Drexel Central”>http://www.drexel.edu/src/checklist/pdf/undergrad/6968_Orientation.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks famcruisefun…I was able to open it</p>

<p>It shows there is an Orientation Day and then New Student Days. I looked at the Drexel portal and Orientation Days are scheduled in July. Does anyone know if it is absolutely necessary to attend the Orientation Day…or can those tasks be taken care of at New Students Day? We would rather not have the expense of flying my son out in July, and again in September. </p>

<p>I will schedule him to fly in on 9/14 so he can bee there for the start on 9/15.</p>

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<p>Orientation is a great time to make friends and get better acquainted with Drexel in general, but I don’t suppose it’s obligatory. I will say though that I met a couple of my best friends at orientation.</p>

<p>If your son wants to move in on Wednesday then he will have to pay a small fee for early move-in. I would not recommend him flying in super early because most students don’t move in until Thursday anyway. I chose to move in on Wednesday to beat some of the rush but I paid the fee to do so. Don’t bother sending him to Philly on Tuesday…he will not be able to access the dorms. I would suggest having a flight come in on Wednesday or Thursday morning so he can move in that afternoon. New student days really aren’t super important and it’s not an orientation.</p>