<p>Freshman orientation sessions begin next week. DS is scheduled to do his June 1 and we're wondering whether others have planned their visits as well.</p>
<p>Yep, mine is June 14th. I live here so its not really a visit, but thats my date.</p>
<p>Mine’s June 8th. Earliest I could get it. I’ll be in Disney World from the 31st of May to the fifth of June.</p>
<p>Anyone else going alone? We kind of figured it was a waste of money for one of my parents to go. If one would have went, it would have been my dad, but he’s really familiar with the school since he went there, so yeah.</p>
<p>My son is going May 30 for the language test and May 31st for orientation. He had to scedule it asap since he is doing a 35 city tour with a music youth group this summer and is actually having to miss a few days of the month long practice camp prior to the tour.</p>
<p>AU, he will also be doing it alone. From what I saw about the parent orientation, I really didn’t see anything that would justify the cost or a loss of a day at work. It’s cool that you are a “legacy”.</p>
<p>Having been to parent’s orientation 3 years ago when our DD did her orientation, I can’t really disagree about the need to attend parent’s orientation. That being said, we are tagging along with DS and attending the parent’s portion because we want to be a part of his experience as we were with DD. He received his housing assignment yesterday and is so excited to become an official Gamecock; we want to share in this exciting time and we love being on campus and meeting other parents.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking a Latin placement test may 30th, and orientation on the 31st.</p>
<p>I tried to tell me mom that she didn’t need to come with me and we would save a lot of money if it was just me, but she wasn’t interested in letting me go alone.</p>
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Well I’m not sure how much of a “legacy” I am. My father went to law school there, so he wasn’t undergrad. Almost everyone in my family went to Appalachian. In fact, no one on my mother’s side went to college… and on my father’s, his two sisters and brother-in-law all went to ASU. But he definitely knows the school better than I do at this point. lol I’m looking forward to surfing it out on my own.</p>
<p>But anyways, it seems that my parents won’t be missing much by not attending, which is good.</p>
<p>I’m still without a housing assignment, but I did have my graduation today, so I’m feeling at least like an official gamecock, despite still being homeless. XD</p>
<p>My daughter has orientation June28. She is from NC attending USC in the Fall. Her friend applied for Capstone scholar and is in there and put my daughter (and vice versa) as a roomate pick. My daughter still has no assignment and did not apply as a Capstone scholar but was told in March she could still be placed as a room mate if a scholar requested her.Is there a chance Capstone will open up space by her orientation date? Her friend is assigned to capstone but wants to change to any dorm to be my daughter’s room mate. I feel bad because she did apply to be a Capstone scholar so should stay there however she is not at all happy with the person she was assigned and my daughter as I said isn’t assigned yet. Any advice appreciated. I told them at this point if she gave up her slot at Capstone is there any guarantee they would be together in another dorm at this late date? Please advise. Monday is when she is planning to ask to be removed from Capstone in order to be my daughter’s roomie but should they both wait til move in and request a change??.</p>
<p>Goodgirl, Capstone Scholars are invited into the program based on their qualifications demonstrated during the application process, one does not apply per se. Perhaps you are referring to the housing form students complete indicating their housing preferences. Capstone House dorm is quite large and while a good portion of the students living there are Capstone Scholars, not all are. In our experience, USC has tried to accomodate housing requests so I am a bit surprised that your daughter and her friend were not placed together. Did your daughter list Capstone House as her first housing choice?</p>
<p>Has your daughter or her friend tried contacting the housing department with this situation to seek their assistance? Hopefully they can assist and get these two friends living together in Capstone House. However, even if they have to switch dorms, I believe her friend, as a designated Capstone Scholar, can still participate in that program even if she doesn’t live in Capstone Houuse dorm. Good luck!</p>
<p>DON HO, I will say that Housing this year is an absolute mess. There are no other words to describe it.</p>
<p>They said that all freshmen should know by June 1, and yet many still don’t know.</p>
<p>I know of plenty of students who were not placed together and they requested each other. My Orientation roommate had the exact same problem. Her friend was a Capstone Scholar and they requested each other. The Capstone Scholar was placed in Capstone while my Orientation roommate was placed in Preston… a Residential College that you had to apply for. She did not apply for it and was placed there.</p>
<p>The bad news is that as long as your daughter doesn’t have an assignment, housing basically won’t help her. I called Housing about five times to figure out why I still didn’t have my assignment and others, who applied to USC after me, already had theirs. They told me something different each time. However, those who have assignments already, are allowed to change their housing. So as soon as your daughter gets her assignment, she should be able to finagle her way into a dorm with her preferenced roommate.</p>
<p>Something that will make it easier: Once your daughter gets an assignment, if she can figure out her roommate (That’s a whole other can of worms in itself), she could ask her if she would like to switch into Capstone and take your daughter’s friend’s place. I was told by housing that that was the easiest switch to make… One where all four people in two dorms agreed to make a switch.</p>
<p>My daughter found out today that she and her room mate are in Capstone. YAY!! One was in Capstone and my daughter had been assigned to the South tower 16th floor. She went to orientation and when she saw where she was going to live she was pretty miserable. The South Tower is very central to everything and the Russell Center is right there however it is traditional with hall bathrooms and she preferred suite. Actually she & her roomie are in a corner room at Capstone so the two just share a bathroom and do not have suite mates. They are just happy to be put together. Looking on the Capstone floorplan the corner rooms are smaller.Her advisor gave her a schedule orientation and she went on rateaprofessor and all she was given had really bad comments like" this professor is horrible…ruined my first year!" She stayed up really late until the system updated and was able to drop that class and get another that had opened as well as dropping her 8AM class in UNIV101 til a later time. They suggested she take that for an “easy A” Any feedback on corner rooms and Univ 101??</p>
<p>I hope you all got to hear VP Dennis Pruitt’s speech during orientation, if he gave it this year. His personal story about his close association with rock star Billy Joel and the intense work ethic of his band is not to be missed. i found it very impressive and uplifting and still think about it, three years later.</p>
<p>He told that story at my orientation. I’m glad you said his name, NervousParent, because I really liked his speech but I didn’t actually know who he was lol</p>
<p>Same here! I had no idea who he was. I was zoning in and out, because all of us had stayed up really late the night before at Preston playing games and getting to know one another. haha</p>
<p>good girl5,
Your daughter will enjoy the corner room in Capstone. My son had a corner room in Capstone, on the 6th or 7th floor. The room is definitely smaller than the others, but the bathroom is for that room only - so only 2 folks sharing, no suite mates. I don’t know what floor your daughter is on, but I do know that the humidity seems to increase as you go higher up in the dorm. At the time son was there (3 years ago) Capstone housing was by major —all the folks on his floor were engineering majors. So it was easy to make friends and study. He is now a 5th year senior and one of his best friends was someone on his floor in Capstone. The dining hall in Capstone is one of the best on campus, too!</p>