<p>Is there a list anywhere of colleges that offer these pre-orientation trips, programs etc?</p>
<p>I know a bunch of the Ivies do them, as well as other schools, but I am looking for a comprehensive list if one exists.</p>
<p>Pomona, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Northland, Prescott.</p>
<p>Indiana University</p>
<p>Through CC, we should be able to make a comprehensive list ourselves–get all parents on parents forum to share their knowledge.</p>
<p>Harvard, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Whitman does pre-Orientation “Scrambles”–both outdoor and social service trips</p>
<p>Rice offers Urban Immersion
[Welcome</a> to the Community Involvement Center](<a href=“http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~service/programs/ui/ui.htm]Welcome”>http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~service/programs/ui/ui.htm)</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is another one.</p>
<p>Colby COOT</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark</p>
<p>WUSTL offers several versions, pegged to different interests and usually with an outdoorsy component.</p>
<p>CU-Boulder also does an outdoor type adventure program for incoming freshman. Also there’s a summer for-credit geology program for incoming freshman with some research involved.</p>
<p>Add Cornell, Yale and Princeton.</p>
<p>My son, rising senior, just commented that the cooperative travel or similar trip is a really good way for him (specifically) to meet people and it would be a great thing for him to have a solid nucleus of friends when he arrives for orientation. I’m hoping to be able to add some schools to his list – or at least add that information to his list – as another data point if he is lucky enough to be able to choose between schools next spring.</p>
<p>edited to add: A close friend’s D participated at Princeton, loved it, and has then led trips in subsequent years.</p>
<p>D1 was a FOP (freshman outdoor program) leader and highly recommends these trips to incoming freshmen. During the freshman year, she makes it a point to try to get her FOPers together again for a reunion.</p>
<p>Bates AESOP</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve University (that’s where I’ll be going in the fall!) has trips called “Case Ventures”- all different trips, whether you want to go sightseeing in Cleveland, going to different restaurants, outdoors stuff, community service.</p>
<p>hobart & william smith colleges have some sort of camping trip before orientation.</p>
<p>Smith has several–an outdoor adventure one off-campus, and a bunch of different ones on-campus.</p>
<p>Besides the FOP outdoor program, Harvard also offers FAP-Freshman Arts Program, FIP-Freshman International Program, and FUP-Freshman Urban Program, as pre-orientation options.</p>
<p>Wash U in St. Louis has a ton of different pre-O programs.</p>
<p>Bard College has its well-known three-week Language & Thinking seminar, required for all incoming freshmen before upperclassmen arrive.</p>
<p>Ohio State has several.</p>
<p>Just got home from DD’s University of the Pacific orientation. They require all freshmen to go on a trip at the start of the fall semester. Trips include a community service component. They tried to claim they were the only U. doing this. I did not concur.<br>
DS’s hnors program does a one day outward bound type trip with incoming freshmen for NEU. More of a ropes course type team building thing. Not like UOP’s which is definitely an overnight with the community service component.</p>