[Chad]

Incoming First-Year Checklist

Coming to McMaster in September? There's plenty of dates to pay attention to! Be sure to take note of the deadlines and dates below. Also, if you have any questions feel free to ask them in our discussion boards, we're here to help. Also note that as we get closer to September, expect to see plenty of coverage of Welcome Week as we get you pumped for your first year at McMaster!

May 28 Deadline for Offer of Admission! (Choosing McMaster of course!)
______ 4pm - Residence application deadline (discuss residences here! See other member's residence picks here.)
______ 4pm - Res Deposit deadline to maintain Guaranteed/Waitlist Status

May 30 Registration begins for the Easy Summer Orientation Program

June 2 Form for Special Accomodation Requests within residence due (June 23rd for Exchange/Transfer students)

June 6 Deadline for residence application changes (PS. CLICK HERE to change your residence application!!!)

June 20 OSAP application deadline for Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship. See more scholarships here.

June 16 SOLAR opens for course registration - see when your start date is here.

June-ish Residence Room Assignments completed

July 11 Deadline for New Student Form
______ Residence withdrawal deadline for receiving half ($300) deposit refund

July 15 Submission deadline for OSAP application if using as funding option on Payment Agreement for tuition and fees

Aug 8 Welcome Day! Be sure to attend. MacInsiders will be covering the details soon.

Aug 30 Residence Move In Begins

Aug 31 Welcome Week Begins (MacInsiders will have loads of coverage!)

Sept 4 First Day of Classes (summer vacation officially over...)

[Quester]

is the Easy Summer Orientation Program only for students in Business? because it says, 'Step 1: Pick your academic counselling session for Business...'

[lorend]

Damnit. There is a typo. I'll get that fixed tomorrow. The first buisness is not supposed to be there. Disregard it.

Before Step One there is: "For example: On July 2nd, if you are a Business Student you would:". So no, it is not only business.

The Office of the Registrar's Calendar will explain everything (which faculties on what days and/or times) as of the 28th so says their website.

However...the faculties involved are:
- humanities
- social science
- science
- engineering
- business
- health sci
- nursing

[Quester]

Originally Posted by lorend

Damnit. There is a typo. I'll get that fixed tomorrow. The first buisness is not supposed to be there. Disregard it.

Before Step One there is: "For example: On July 2nd, if you are a Business Student you would:". So no, it is not only business.

The Office of the Registrar's Calendar will explain everything (which faculties on what days and/or times) as of the 28th so says their website.

However...the faculties involved are:
- humanities
- social science
- science
- engineering
- business
- health sci
- nursing

thanks!

[Chad]

Ya, the website is being worked on, and definitely isnt just for business students! Orientation days are for everyone and I highly recommend going to them. Primarily because our MacInsiders VP is the one helping to organize/plan them this year

[lorend]

The page has been fixed now...I let one of the multimedia coordinators know about the error.

[Richa]

for the course selection days..is it only for 1 specific day?..cuz i would be in a flight then, according to the given dates...!!..can it be done in a day or two too?

[lorend]

you can start picking your courses as of a specific day (depends on faculty). you don't have to do them on that day, that's just the first day you're allowed. once you log into the system though you have a week to make any changes you need. then there is a period (I think a week) when you can't access SOLAR, then you get free run of it until sometime in August.

[FlyWithMac]

"May 30 Registration begins for the Easy Summer Orientation Program"


????

[lorend]

There were some issues...it should be up by tomorrow evening...or so I have been told.

[FlyWithMac]

ummm.... how do you register for the Easy Summer Orientation thing?? I already registered an academic counselling with my faculty but I went to the ESO website and there's no link for the registration????????? ?????? Does it come with the faculty's academic counselling registration??

[lorend]

*sigh*

We had some issues when we were testing it today. Everything should be operational Thursday morning.

I will post and let everyone know when it is available.