Traveling to Orientation
What to Bring to Orientation
Freshmen Orientation
- Your Orientation Confirmation brochure
- Driver's license (for student employment processing), if applicable
- Social Security card or birth certificate (for student employment processing), if applicable
- Casual clothes and comfortable sneakers for your overnight stay
and for walking around campus
- Pillowcase and twin bed sheets or a sleeping bag
- Towel, toiletries and a hair dryer
- Umbrella or portable fan for your room if weather dictates
- Notebook and pen
- Alarm clock
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Transfer Orientation
- Your Orientation Confirmation brochure
- Your Credit Evaluation of Transfer Work (If you do not receive it before Orientation, it will be in the University's computer records for academic advising.)
- Driver's license (for student employment processing), if applicable
- Social Security card or birth certificate (for student employment processing), if applicable
- Comfortable shoes
- Umbrella if weather dictates
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Accommodations
Since Orientation begins promptly at 8 a.m., many students, parents and guardians choose to arrive in the area the night before their scheduled Orientation session. The Storrs area has a variety of lodging choices that will accommodate you.
Please be advised that the Freshmen Orientation program only provides overnight on-campus accommodations when your Orientation program is in session. It does not accommodate students before or after their session. The Parent-Guardian Orientation program for the parents and guardians of new UConn freshmen does not include overnight accommodations. The Transfer Orientation program is a one-day event that does not include an overnight stay on campus.
If a student is attending Orientation alone and needs to stay on campus the night before their session:
- She/He can make a reservation for a room in South campus, which would be at a separate cost to the student.
- Prices are: $40.50/night for a Double and $55.00/night for a Single. Payment is by check only made out to the University of Connecticut. Payment is expected upon check-in at the Rome Commons Housing Desk.
- Accommodations are typically suite-style; a Double room means there are two bedrooms with a shared common area and bathroom. A Single room means the room has a private bedroom, which could be part of a shared suite. All of these rooms include bed and bath linens.
- Reservations are taken on a first come, first serve basis.
- Reservations must be made in advance by contacting Amy Crim, Coordinator of Conference Housing, by email at amy.crim@uconn.edu or by telephone at (860) 486-8331.
- The rooms in South are available from May 25 to July 7, 2009.
Directions to the UConn campus are available online.
Carpooling to Orientation with Your Friends
If you would like to attend Orientation with friends who are also new UConn students, you and your friend(s) should return all reservation forms and payments in one envelope. We cannot honor car pool requests if this procedure is not followed. Remember, attending Orientation with friends only makes sense when the UConn School or College of each student in the group is meeting on the session date requested.
Carpooling requests do not pre-determine your Orientation group or roommate for the two-day Orientation program. The Office of Orientation Services does not honor roommate requests for the program.
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