<p>Hi all. I was wondering how important/unimportant it is for me to attend summer welcome. Being from New York, it's a pain to go down to Mizzou if it's just a glorified Mizzou pep rally. If there's anything, however, that is valuable and that I couldn't do at some other time, I'll make the trip. I don't want to get closed out of classes or something because I don't go to Summer Welcome to make my schedule or take placement tests/miss out on my football tickets. </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Parent’s perspective: It is a pain to go that far, not to mention expensive. But we went. Some of it was useful, some was fun but not worth the special trip. Useful: signing up for classes (student), learning more about Mizzou firsthand (parent), meeting other real-live parents, probably for the only time (parents), meeting other real-live students (student). There may be other things I am not remembering. You might want to check with admissions, the registrar, or the SW office about enrolling in your classes if you do not go to SW (if you are in a FIG, you are already enrolled in at least two). It seems only fair that they should let you do it long-distance, but I’m not sure they do.</p>
<p>Since we have family in St. Louis, visits to Mizzou can have two purposes, so we didn’t mind the trip. Students should chime in here about reasons to go/not go. I think there was another thread here about Summer Welcome last year, too.</p>
<p>Edit: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-missouri-columbia/610549-how-important-summer-welcome.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-missouri-columbia/610549-how-important-summer-welcome.html</a></p>
<p>After some consideration we decided to go to Summer Welcome, even though it’s also not convenient for us (we are from CA), but I think it would be useful for our D.
At least she can get her ordered Mac home, finalize her schedule, meet other students, get ID cards and sense the dormitory environment. </p>
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<p>Here’s what you’ll do at Summer Welcome:</p>
<ol>
<li>tour the campus</li>
<li>hear a lecture from your department/college</li>
<li>spend the night in the dorms</li>
<li>meet with students that will be in your class</li>
<li>make your schedule</li>
<li>get your id</li>
<li>sign up for football tickets</li>
<li>go to an activities fair</li>
<li>hang out</li>
</ol>
<p>is it fun? yes. is it worth a lot of money to travel here? no, as long as you’ve been here at least once before (assuming you’d like to have some idea of what you’re getting yourself into).</p>
<p>scheduling: you do that online. you can do it from home no problem. send me a PM and i’ll happily walk you thru online registration. it’s a piece of cake.</p>
<p>football tickets: no rush to get them. you’ll pay for the pass and then pick up the tickets once school starts, first come/first serve. there’s a block of seats reserved for Tiger’s Lair in the student section, and sign up for Tiger’s Lair is first come/first serve after you have your pass. you can buy the pass online also, and you sign up for Tiger’s Lair or get your seating assignments once class starts. </p>
<p>student id: you can get this when you move in, no problems there. it’ll take like, 15 mins probably.</p>
<p>personally: i wouldn’t make the trip. you won’t be vastly far behind if you miss it i promise. if you want contact info for some summer welcome leaders (current upperclassmen who put on summer welcome/are the camp counselors) or for someone who can tell you more about scheduling, shoot me a PM</p>
<p>enjoy the rest of your senior year!</p>
<p>go tigers,
kristin</p>
<p>Thanks for this info- It will come in handy next year. We’ll probably have so much going on getting our daughter ready to go to College (will find out in 2 weeks if she likes Mizzou after our visit). We proably want to get a family vacation in next summer too.</p>
<p>She is also thinking about joining the Missouri Air National Guard to help pay for school (my husband is Full time Air National guard here in Pennsylvania, so she has been saying she is going to do this since she was in 8th grade). Not sure how her joining and doing basic training and tech training works with starting school.</p>