First-Year Students
Preparing to Meet Your Advisor
Please Note: Updated information for the Class of 2025 will be available in early June 2021. Orientation activities for most first year students are scheduled to begin on campus on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021, with move-in on or before that date. Some pre-orientations or athletic pre-seasons may begin earlier. Given our continued responsiveness to the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask that students and their friends or family not make travel arrangements until the fall semester dates are confirmed and recommend flexible/refundable travel plans at that time.
View Academic Life @ Haverford Modules (Required)
All first-year students are asked to view the following modules as a basic introduction to the curriculum, advising, and registration.
Academic Life Modules Deadline: View all modules by August 1, 2021.
Advising Guide
The First-Year Advising Guide serves as a resources for new students and their advisors as they explore Haverford's departments and programs, and plan their initial steps through the curriculum.
Please note: Requires a valid haverford.edu log-in to access. Viewing the PDF in the Google Drive preview window or choosing to Open with Google Docs will impact the functionality and formatting of this document. For the best experience, download the PDF and view it using your preferred software.
Fill Your Cart (Required)
This exercise is designed to give you practice in using Bionic and other registration resources to explore course possibilities.
Please select 6 credits you would be interested in including in your fall schedule; you will ultimately enroll in 4-4.5 credits. Note that you are not registering for courses during this exercise, but rather beginning the process of thinking about your academic goals for your first semester, one that will continue when you meet with your pre-major advisor and register for courses in early August. To start this exercise, view the Bionic shopping cart tutorial, a short video designed to introduce you to course search and the beginning of the registration process.
Fill Your Cart Deadline: August 1, 2021.
Note: You must view the Academic Life @ Haverford modules before completing this task.
For this exercise, you will not be able to proceed to step 2 of 3 until registration opens August 2–13, 2021 and you've had a chance to discuss your interests and potential courses with your pre-major advisor.