What colleges offer a trip before starting as a freshman

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I know WVU offers a 6 day trip to incoming freshman for. Nominal fee. I love the idea of this because you get to meet a small group and bond before starting college. Any other schools offer something like this? I’m not going to choose a school based on this but I’m curious.

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Washington & Lee. Mine did the hiking trip.

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Here is the information on William and Mary’s pre orientation trips.

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Cornell - Outdoor Odyssey Pre-Orientation Program | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University

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I did this trip the first year they offered it, it was a hiking and camping trip up House Mountain. Met my husband :joy: 10/10 would recommend!

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If you’re describing a pre-move in trip involving outdoor activities such as rock climbing, hiking, and kayaking, lots of schools offer this.

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I’m pretty sure that Dartmouth is one.

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Tufts, U Miami, Stanford, Hamilton.

If you have a school of interest, just google their orientation. There’s likely many.

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Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, Lewis & Clark, Middlebury.

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Williams also has orientation week trips.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks has camping and rafting trips for new students. I did it when I was a new student (a million years ago) and loved it. There were about a dozen students and we even had the school chancellor join us.

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Tons of schools offer this sort of thing – it might be a question you can ask during college visits. I would personally not use this as a major criteria to choose pretty a college as pretty much every college has an orientation program for freshmen.

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My Hamilton trip is kayaking on a lake :slight_smile:

I have friends doing community outreach, canoeing, hiking, art exploration, literally everything. Something I love about the program is that they take our phones which really allows us to get involved in the activity and with others.

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Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport takes their freshman class to Paris!

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UNH offers several experiences depending on interests. One is at their research lab off the coast. Some allow early move in and are locally based.

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As an alternative version of this, Kenyon offers pre-orientation trips in West Virginia.

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Hendrix has several options, some more active than others (mountain biking&kayaking, museum&lake swimming, rock climbing&camping, etc ) A good introduction to their Odyssey program.

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For no extra charge??

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Lehigh has some great options, quite a variety!

https://studentaffairs.lehigh.edu/content/prelusion

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