Welcome to campus, class of 2028! Below is a comprehensive list of everything you need to do before you arrive on campus in August. Check in regularly for updated details, instructions, and deadlines.
Important Dates and Deadlines
May
- Late May: Activate your oxy.edu account and Oxy email address
- May 23: L.A. Engage interest form opens (the interest form has reached capacity)
- May 30: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #1 (topics: housing, health/wellness, and disability services)
June
- June 1: Housing application form opens
- June 1: Advising information form opens
- June 10: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #2 (topics: advising, registration, First-Year Seminar)
- June 12: Deadline to submit interest form for First-Year Seminar immersive programs: Life on the Edge or Subversive Art and Media (optional)
- June 17-21: Register for your first class (First-Year Seminar)
- June 24: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #3 (topic: student athletes only - by invite)
- June 26: Deadline to submit housing application form
- June 26: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #4 (topic: international students only)
- June 30: Deadline to sign up for Humanities for Just Communities summer virtual course
July
- July 1: Deadline to submit advising information form
- July 1: Deadline to request disability accommodations for housing or academics
- July 1: Meal plan selection form opens
- Ask your high school or counselor to send your final, official transcript to the Office of Admission
- July 9: Summer Sendoff in Chicago
- July 13: Summer Sendoff in Seattle
- July 14: Summer Sendoff in Los Angeles
- July 14: Deadline to add authorized users to your student account for e-billing
- July 14: Deadline to accept financial aid offer
- July 14: Complete the online entrance counseling, Master Promissory Note, and disclosures for Occidental (if your financial aid offer includes loans)
- July 14: Meal plan selection form due
- July 15: The first e-bill for the Fall 2024 semester is emailed
- July 16: Attend the Road to Occidental Webinar #5 (topics: work-study and student employment)
- July 18: Summer Sendoff in New York
- July 18: Summer Sendoff in Boston
August
- August 1: Deadline to submit new student health forms
- August 1: Deadline to take online placement exams
- August 1: First payment due for direct costs from Occidental (tuition, fees, housing, and meals)
- August 2: Submit a photo for your Oxy student ID card
- First week of August: Room and roommate assignments released by REHS
- August 5: Summer Sendoff in San Francisco
- Submit FERPA Privacy Rights form (optional)
- August 13: Move-in for new international students
- August 14-16: International New Student Orientation
- August 17: L.A. Engage #1
- August 18: L.A. Engage #2
- August 19: L.A. Engage #3
- August 19: Move-in day for new students
- August 19-25 New Student Orientation
- August 19-20: New Family Orientation
- August 20: Deadline to sign up for or waive Oxy student health insurance
- August 24: Students meet with faculty adviser and register for remaining fall classes (during orientation)
- August 26: Attend Convocation
- August 27: First day of classes for the Fall 2024 semester
- August 29-31: Review your clearance form in myOxy
- August 31: Final deadline for changes to your meal plan selection