Curious as to why the pre-orientation at Lafayette is limited to such a small group. Does any one have any experience with this? What type of student applies and gets accepted. My sib goes to F&M and they have a service pre-orientation with 250 freshman participating each year. It was a great way to learn about the community as well as the college - meeting a good number of incoming freshman in a no stress atmosphere. It seems 36 is a very limited number of kids. Love to hear others thoughts.
Good question. My daughter just finished her first year at Lafayette and while her orientation was by far the shortest (2 days?) of all her friends from high school, she actually has been the one who made the closest friends and had the best year. Maybe the school is so small that having a longer orientation just isn’t as important. Plus they set up the kids by dorms in one of 5 Commons (two or more dorms together) and then they do things with their commons and sometimes against other commons, and that seemed to bring them all close together as well.
Lafayette seems to be doing something right.
My son did POSP as a freshman. The focus of the program doesn’t seem to be students bonding with other students, though that is a benefit (as well as the benefit of getting on campus early and settling into your dorm room).
The focus of the program seems more to be about introducing students to the Easton community and spotlighting community service programs that Lafayette has in place. Lafayette has a strong culture of community service and is very invested in Easton.
The students participating in POSP could find themselves acting as camp counselors at the kid’s camp or the teen camp, or they might be serving as activity leaders at the senior center (just a couple of examples). Having a large number of POSP participants would be unmanageable and probably unnecessary.