When does PSU usually hold its new student orientation?

Am I supposed to get orientation information via email after completing Aleks and my education survey? I haven’t gotten anything…

@Ajpat123 After you complete ALEKS they will send you a post card with your NSO date on it. Nothing by e mail. So wait a week or so and you should get your postcard.

I called and asked Admissions and the lady in the office said the postcard won’t come until April, even though I completed everything on March 1. Just another agonizing waiting game…

@Techtheatrewiz Thanks for letting us know that. I think my D is taking the test today. After a week she would start to wonder. I wonder if it matters then if you take the test now or April 1st? I assumed the earlier you take it…the quicker you get your NSO date and first choice of classes.

@jlhpsu Okay thank you, Just didnt want to think I deleted an important email or something. Also just to make sure theres no deadline as to when to retake the ALEKS placement test right? I just have to place in the right math class before NSO, right?

@zipbags It is true that the earlier you take it, the earlier you should get your NSO date and the first choice of classes. The good news is if you get your NSO date and you don’t like the date you can call and change it. The summer students will get the first NSO dates because they start earlier. When we were moving our daughter in for summer, she had friends who were there doing their NSO.

My son had his NSO mid-July and was able to register for every class he wanted.

Are students able to choose who they dorm with for the one night? (For example, a friend or your roomate for the upcoming year.)

Has anyone gotten the email with NSO dates yet?

I know the School of Theatre is July 12 &13, 13&14, 19&20 and August 18th. These dates may be the same dates for other programs in the College of Arts and Architecture, but I’m not sure.

@zipbags Not yet. When we went to the accepted students day last week, they told us we would get an e-mail the first week of April. Nothing yet.

The emails came out today

@THONMOMPSU I didnt get anything.

@THONMOMPSU should I be worried?

@Ajpat123 sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner…did you receive an email yet?

I have, I created an account and everything but now it wont let me log in. It says my email doesnt exist and when I try to request my password (just in case thats the reason why it wont log in) it says my email isnt in the system. So I try making a new orientation account and it says my email already exists so I dont know what to do, either way I cant get any help that I need.