Welcome to campus, new transfer students! 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 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 25: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #2 (topics: transfers, advising, orientation)
- June 25: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #3 (topics: student-athletes)
- June 26: Deadline to submit housing application form
- June 26: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #4 (topic: international students only)
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 previous school 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: Watch the Road to Occidental Webinar #5 (topic: work-study and student employment)
- July 18: Summer Sendoff in New York
- July 18: Summer Sendoff in Boston
- July 24: Attend the Road to Occidental Webinar #6 (topic: move-in and orientation)
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 (for students registered for International New Student Orientation only)
- August 14-16: International New Student Orientation
- August 19: Move-in day for new students
- August 19-26: New Student Orientation
- August 19-20: New Family Orientation
- August 20: Deadline to sign up for or waive Oxy student health insurance
- 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