<p>Does anyone know--
Is the latest orientation date (15-16 August) close enough to the beginning of classes for students who are coming from distant places to not have to leave in between the end of orientation and the start of classes? I live really far away and will also be doing the honors welcome week thing, so is it feasible for me to just stay through orientation and the start of classes and all?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I think those are about a week and a half apart if that helps.</p>
<p>So I’ll have to come two separate times?
I’m not international but do they make international students come twice or do they have a special orientation for them? : /
(it’s hard to find this stuff on the website because so much of it hasn’t been updated since last year or since the spring semester of this year : / )
thanks again : )</p>
<p>i’d probably try calling admissions and just asking</p>
<p>haha yes, that was my plan for tomorrow, but since it was too late today I thought I’d try making sure no one on here had any input (:</p>
<p>They have an international orientation that is basically a day or two before move-in. So I guess either come twice, stay the whole time, pick another orientation date, or don’t go to orientation. I would definitely call to find out all of your options.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that skipping orientation is really an option. You’re probably going to have to attend both separately.</p>
<p>Some people can’t make it, so they can call in and register that way. That’s what I meant by not go.</p>
<p>You are charged the orientation fee anyway, even if you don’t go. And most advisors won’t allow you to register except for during your orientation time (such as within two weeks before it starts or whatever) so if you aren’t going, they’ll probably make you wait until right before the semester starts.</p>
<p>You can call and see what you can do about getting into the international one. However you can’t just stay for a week or two between orientation and move-in. For one thing, where in the world would your stuff be during orientation, and secondly they have other students doing an orientation the following week (from a different college). You can’t just move in early if your dorm is elsewhere, because the buildings don’t open.</p>
<p>I wasn’t planning on just hanging about in between orientation and when classes start, but I was kind of thinking the honors welcome week would fall in between? but it’s still too long… Seems like they would have more convenient timing for all this, but what do I know.
I’ll just have to go to an earlier one and make multiple trips, I suppose!</p>
<p>Does anyone know if parents stay stay on campus for orientation if they can use the gym?</p>
<p>Uh… I doubt it. You need a husky ID to use the gym (or a paid subscription), and I don’t recall getting anything that would substitute for those during orientation. You do get tickets to eat though.</p>