Parent Orientation at Santa Clara University

How essential is it that a parent attend orientation? I would love to go with my son but we live in NY and $ is an issue. He doesn’t care if I go at all. Advice/information?

If you mean the summer orientation, our kid went, but we didn’t. I don’t think we missed a thing. There is a “welcome weekend” at dropoff in September, so if you have questions, you can always get them answered then.