Everything about your first year at W&J学院 is designed to forge the foundation you need to thrive here. Let's dream big about where you want to go four years from now so that, 在一起, we can craft the best possible first year for you on your way there. From the moment you join the W&J学院 community, our mission is to create room for your passions, present the appropriate challenges to sharpen those passions 和 provide the support you need to achieve more than you might imagine.
Planning Your First Year
Before you arrive, we will h和craft a schedule based on your interests, make residence assignments, 和 select the best mentors to help you build the bridges to where you're headed. Planning your first year is so much more than a packing list (but you'll get one of those, too!)
Orientation is a Process
From the Forge Your Foundation 取向 to transition-to-college activities on campus throughout the first year, you'll have many opportunities to engage in campus traditions for the first time 和 create life-long relationships with faculty, 同行, 和导师.
First Year Seminar
Matching your interests with a faculty advisor 和 like-minded 同行 who live 和 learn with you, your first-year 研讨会 orients you to the liberal arts tradition at W&J学院 through thoughtful discussion that will pique your intellectual curiosity.
First Year Experience FAQs
Your first-year experience at W&J学院 begins before you arrive with the Gateway program. The Gateway program helps guide your transition from high school. Online access to forms, key dates 和 deadlines, information about housing, 移动, 餐厅, services on campus, courses 和 placement, 取向, 和 athletics, Gateway provides entry into all things W&J学院 before you arrive.
While you get to know us, we get to know you, too. As we learn more about you, we prepare your welcome to campus 和 your first semester. We'll create your schedule, make housing assignments, identify your mentors, 和 champion your dreams for your time at W&J学院.