Important Deadlines and Instructions for Incoming First Year Students
The following email was sent to first-year students who will be enrolling in August. Parents and family members of new students, we wanted to draw your attention to important dates and deadlines. Please see the full email from Dean Perry Patterson below and be sure to remind your student to be aware of upcoming deadlines, particularly as they relate to class registration in July.
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Dear New Student,
Welcome to Wake Forest! I hope that you are enjoying a good start to the summer, and that you’ve already visited the new students website to begin your academic and personal planning for the fall. Please continue to return to that site frequently over the coming weeks. Please make sure to review all major sections of the website from time to time.
I particularly want to call your attention to the sections entitled “Forms and Deadlines,” “Orientation,” and “Academics.” The first of these will include all forms and deadlines you need to meet. The second contains important information about your first days on campus, as well as optional pre-school programs. The third will contain a growing set of materials designed to lead you toward a first “Round One” of registration and a subsequent “Course Preference Survey.”
Please make sure that you have started to read the Undergraduate Bulletin that has been posted under “Academics.” I also encourage you to consider taking needed foreign language placement tests soon. Instructions associated with these have now been posted, and we strongly urge that you complete testing by July 15, so that you will know your placement before we begin summer registration. Similarly, we strongly urge that you officially report any AP and/or IB scores as soon as possible (details on submitting those scores.)
Your first registration for up to 8 hours of academic credit is scheduled for July 20 and 21. More details and information will follow about that process, which we call “Round One.” Please check your calendar now. If there are reasons you can’t get to a computer during that time, please let us know and we’ll make alternative arrangements with you.
Between July 25-27, you will be asked to fill out an extensive academic survey about yourself and about additional course preferences. Members of the Dean’s Office and Office of Academic Advising staff will complete your registration based on that survey information you provide. Full schedules will be announced by your academic advisers on Sunday, August 27. Again, should your schedule not permit filling out the survey on the exact dates shown, just let us know. We want to make sure that all students fill out this instrument carefully, so if survey submission must be delayed, please don’t worry. Just let us know as we get closer to those dates if you have any questions.
We want to do everything we can to make your first course selections and setting of priorities a simple and easy process. To that end, please follow the advice we’ll be providing in videos that are already appearing in the “Academics” section. Let me note as well the following options:
- If you want to exchange email with student (peer) advisers over the summer, feel free to write askansa@wfu.edu. That address for unofficial student-to-student communications is an abbreviation for “Ask an SA (Student Adviser).”
- If you’d like to join a Skype chat-room session with student (peer) advisers and other incoming students, please see the schedule and instructions posted under “Academics.”
- If you want to reach a staff member in the Office of Academic Advising, you can write to undergraduateadvising@wfu.edu or call 336 758 3320. See also the advising website.
We will continue to add materials and ways to ask questions over time. We wish you all the best with your summer!
Yours,
Perry L. Patterson
Associate Dean for Academic Advising
PO Box 7225, Reynolda 125
Wake Forest University
336.758.3320