<p>I am soon headed to orientation (well, i have a few weeks...), but I want to be sure I have all of my mandatory forms in. So, what exactly do I need? </p>
<p>Health History Form
Proof of Health Insurance</p>
<p>...I know there is plenty more I am missing. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>I would suggest stopping by Thagard and signing the form that allows them (FSU) to release your information to your parents.</p>
<p>NEWNOLE link - Accepted, now what?
fsu.edu</a> | prospective | undergraduate | accepted students | now what? (freshmen)</p>
<p>Bring transcripts, even it unofficial and downloaded online, for any DE courses completed; or for AP credits from Junior year or prior. They need official transcripts before you start classes, but for advising and schedules you can have an unofficial copy of credits and scores. </p>
<p>The new HIPAA health forms at FSU are good only per incident now. You can't sign a form letting parents have access to all medical records. Each illness or incident has to be signed when it occurs and releases info to parents for that incident/illness until it is no longer a problem. No blanket forms any more. Apparently their legality was called into question. However, the director of Student Health spoke at the orientation, gave EACH AND EVERY PARENT her business card, and said that she will be on the phone to you, signature or not, if your child leaves campus in an ambulance or requires serious emergency or hospital care. She also said that if a parent has any questions about a health issue with their child and there was no form signed, to call her personally, and she would get your student on the phone, or visit your child in his/her dorm room to tell them that mom/dad was calling and to please sign a form or call home if she thought that it was a situation that warrented parents knowing. </p>
<p>If your child has a chronic illness, a form can be signed to care relating to that illness for as long as it is a problem.</p>
<p>And if your child is still 17, you can call anytime, remind the staff that your child is not 18, and ask away.</p>
<p>^^^Along those lines, one of the Deans spoke about privacy, both health (HIPAA) and otherwise (FERPA). He told a funny story about a kid with grade problems. Parents flew in from out of state, marched "Johnny" into the dean's office, "Johnny" signed permission and they all talked, parents flew home and as soon as they left "Johnny" revoked the permission, told the Dean he signed under duress, and made it clear that he would not sign it ever again. And Johnny was within his rights to do so. :(</p>
<p>The Dean reminded parents that, if they are paying for Johnny's tuition/room/board or any part of, or if Johnny looses any scholarship funding due to problems with grades, etc, that parents were also well within their rights to just stop paying.... and to let Johnny know that it was a two way street. He had parents laughing about how Johnny has some control, but signing the checks were the ultimate control if there are communication problems... FSU tries hard to protect a student's privacy, but to try to work things out when students won't let parents in on things. Students can go into the Secure Apps and give permission for parents to have a sign-in which gives parents access to schedule info, grades, bills and financial info (FERPA stuff.) Health (HIPAA) is separate and managed at the Health Center.</p>
<p>i think it it sounds like you are good on the forms. i would recommend reviewing in advance what slasses (sections, professors etc) you want to try to register for. have some sort of a game plan with some backups in case classes are filled. </p>
<p>the summer session and fall advising sessions at orientation will be brief. there are so many students and not enough time to meet in great detail with an advisor during orientation.</p>
<p>once you are matriculated, you are encouraged to meet (and should make sure to do so) with your advisor and get a more detailed advising session.</p>
<p>plan ahead for orientation as best as you can. there is much to do in a brief amount of time. this board is great for helping you to prepare.</p>
<p>for instance, make sure you get up and go to the fsu id center by 7:45-8am on day one of the orientation. the lines were large by 8:30. also try to open a suntrust account(right next store to the fsu id center).</p>
<p>During orientation on the first day, the parents eat at fresh food for lunch, the students at suwannee dining hall. then for the dinner session, both parents and students go to suwannee. we opted to go to the new chili's that just opened in the union. we thought this was really fun. it was a good time for us as parents to catch uyp with our s. it also gave us an opportunity to meet a current fsu student in who was our waiter and was a wealth of information for us.</p>
<p>the orientation guides are great, but sometomes its good to mix it up and speak with students that are not representing the orientation program. besides we had never been to a chili's (aren't any in our area). its a really nice addition to the campus dining options for the students.</p>
<p>make sure not to miss the last event of the day on day 1 of orientation. they have a motivational speaker who we thought was great!. the students really seemed to enjoy him as did the parents.</p>
<p>Was your speaker Prof. Joe Morgan? Or the one listed in the program?</p>
<p>the one in the program. he was terrific!</p>
<p>For the first orientation, it was Professor Joe Martin. This man was absolutely amazing. Maybe that's who sunny is referring to.</p>
<p>i am sure someone else has posted this link already, but it would be good to review this before going to orientation. they throw a lot of info at you in a very compressed time. the more prepared you can be will allow you to get more out of it.</p>
<p>here is the link to academic advising.</p>
<p>Yes, we had "Prof Joe" and he was absolutely amazing. Funny, irreverant, motivating. I want to order his book!!! Someone else was listed in our program, but it was Joe Martin that spoke at our orientation.</p>
<p>We had Joe Martin too (loved him) but my friend and her son had the guy listed in the program (fire eating juggler) and said he was also incredible.</p>
<p>NYCOLLEGEDAD - that is a very comprehensive link! excellent!</p>