<p>I'm jealous that you guys got to stay overnight!</p>
<p>dang for UCLA i've got to pay $365 for 3day 2 night orientation. Family is another $60 per individual. Wow, don't they love to suck up our money.</p>
<p>Woah! I guess most schools charge for orientation. Well I'm going to UC Merced and it cost 70 for me and 60 for guest.
Here's an additional question...
Should I go to orientation and why? At Orientation what did you do? Did you pick your classes? Anything else...</p>
<p>At my school, you're required to go to orientation or you can't register for classes. You register at the end of your session and you have to do all the things during the orientation they have for you (the meetings with advisors and stuff, etc) or they won't let you register either.</p>
<p>UMD CP charges $140 for a new freshman orientation: 2 days, one night in the dorm, lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, gym/pool time...plus all the academic advising and college transition stuff.</p>
<p>$100 for a transfer student orientation--lunch, advising, etc.</p>
<p>$60 for a parent orientation: presentations, lunch, bus tour, student panel.
$10-15 extra for a trip to DC, Baltimore, Annapolis, 5-hour walking tour, athletic tour, dining services cooking lesson, etc.</p>
<p>The Orientation Office is a self-supported office, so all the money we get to pay and house our staff (33 paid students for the entire summer) and for everything we buy for the program comes from Orientation Fees.</p>
<p>THANX guys this was helpful!</p>
<p>I'm not sure how much Rice is, but I think it is just part of the tuition and housing. It lasts 7 days, Sunday-Saturday the week before classes. Saturday is usually an "outreach day" where students have the opportunity to volunteer in several Houston organizations/hospitals.</p>
<p>$150 for two day orientation, students stay in a dorm.
$145 for each parent who is not going to stay the night on campus
parents are encouraged to attend.</p>
<p>Orientation is free for us. It’s a day long (24 hours) and we stay overnight in the dorms. Parents can come if they want, but almost everything is separated between parents and students.</p>
<p>I go to University of Richmond - orientation is free, required, starts on a Wednesday and leads up to when classes start that following Monday. Parents are invited to events on move-in day, and some events the next morning, then they go home. they don’t have to pay anything either.</p>
<p>I’m going to SUNY Oneonta and the students’ orientation fee is covered in our fees/tuition and parents pay $120. My mom is coming up with me, but she won’t be attending any sessions…I’d rather be alone anyway, that’s how it’ll be in college =]</p>
<p>I’m going to Binghamton University, and the orientation fee is $205. I’m a little irked but I think I’m going to go anyway to avoid the hassle of going back and forth between the school all summer trying to get what I could have done in three days completed. </p>
<p>That was a really awkward sentence.</p>
<p>Anywho, my parents didn’t come to my last orientation either, but I honestly forget what I paid to go. I think it was less than $205 though. I want to say $150ish? This orientation is 3 days, 2 nights, but I think it might be worth it because I’m going to be commuting to this new school and it’ll be nice to be able to meet people.</p>
<p>My orientation is free but it’s also required. freshman move in a week early and they do all the boring stuff like no drugs etc…</p>
<p>however we do have optional preorientation activities that cost about $600. but if you’re on financial aid you don’t have to pay.</p>
<p>Some of the schools I’m looking at have long pre-orientation programs, sometimes as much as six weeks. I’d never be able to go because I need the money I’d make during the summer, but they are pretty cheap. $600 for six fully residential weeks + one class is a bargain. That, and they offer financial aid. This is at WashU, by the way.</p>
<p>Mine was $40 then $10 for every guest. It was only an all day thing as well.</p>
<p>I don’t recall every having to pay a freshman, transfer or new student orientation fee. It was probably included in the tuition.</p>
<p>I always hated going to orientation…probably because I’ve gone to so many of them.</p>