Registered DD for orientation in July. I remember her friend (currently in first year at CPP) attending an overnight orientation. Is it different this year or am I just not seeing it?
It’s different this year. Because of the semester conversion, the summer is very short. Because of that, orientation is only one day this year instead of two. There will be an online portion to make up for the missing day.
They will offer a dorm room for you kid if you request it as we will be driving up the night before. Heck I dont want to do a 2+ hr drive to be there at 7:45. That way he can get up and go to orientation and I can putz around. Only 3 days for parents and one is filled. So I will not be attending the parent day. Figured I’ll take my knitting and crocheting and sit by the koi pond and enjoy the peace and quiet lol.
Thanks @Mom2Engineers @bean981
I haven’t logged on in a long while! DD is going to overnight orientation this week. Can’t believe how quickly this is going!
My son had his on Friday and was overnight on Thursday. He said only like 10 kids were there. I guess I thought there would be more. Do as much prep work on the schedule before you go cause they clearly do not give them a lot of time if they have incoming AP credits. Apparently they have the scores but not the course equivelants so for instance my son had AP Calc AB. He had to get add codes for any class that had 1st semester calc as a prereq. So of course he had one wrong lab and dint realize it until after they closed so we are hoping he can call on Monday. They only have a 3 day window to add/drop so his is Monday and they said well you have to come back on Monday. I was like ummm no we are not driving back up there again until school starts. I think they are so used to commuter students that can just go 30 min and be there. They can plan a schedule and put them in the cart so then they can just get what ever codes they need. It seemed like some were already filled up.
@Bean981 Thanks got this info! Where can you view the schedule?
@socalmomof4 sorry I just saw your post today so I’m guessing you are either done with orientation or attending tomorrow. Good luck