Summer Newsletters
Weekly Student Newsletters
The Approaching Stanford Newsletter is sent to all incoming undergraduate first-year students each week, beginning in May. The newsletter, delivered only to your Stanford email account, provides campus information, critical updates, and necessary action items leading up to New Student Orientation. To ensure you don't miss a newsletter, use your SUNet ID to log into your Microsoft 365 Stanford email account at webmail.stanford.edu.
- April 3, 2024 - Letter to Admitted Students from Stanford President and Provost
- May 10, 2024 - Welcome, Class of 2028!
- May 15, 2024 - Required Forms and Special Frosh Programs (ITALIC, SLE, LSP, SSEA, SOAR)
- May 22, 2024 - Frosh Housing, Ethnic & Academic Theme Houses, Medical Housing Accommodations
- May 29, 2024 - Frosh Forms Due June 7; Summer Bridge Deadlines; Language Requirement & Placement Tests
- June 5, 2024 - Frosh Forms and Housing Due June 7; Pre-Orientation Program Applications
- June 12, 2024 - Vaden Health Requirements; Pre-Orientation Program Application Deadlines
- June 19, 2024 - Commencement Highlights & Civil Dialogue Workshops
- June 26, 2024 - Our Academic Values & Academic Advising at Stanford
- July 3, 2024 - Introducing Your Orientation Coordinators
- July 10, 2024 - OC Coffee Chats; Civil Dialogues Program
- July 17, 2024 - Welcome from the ASSU; Advising Video #2: Exploring Interests at Stanford
- July 24, 2024 - Vaden Health Requirements; Advising Video #3: Resources for Choosing Courses
- July 31, 2024 - Advising Newsletter #2: FAQs, Resources, Placement Tests & Diagnostics, OC Coffee Chats [Corrected]
- August 7, 2024 - Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education: COLLEGE, ESF, ITALIC, SLE, PWR, IntroSems, Frosh 101, and Ways
- August 14, 2024 - 2024-25 Course Catalog, Health Insurance, and Convocation Guest Tickets
- August 21, 2024 - University Core Values & Required Online Modules Due Sep 16
- August 29, 2024 - Move-In Day Instructions and Life on the Farm
- September 9, 2024 - You've Approached Stanford! 2024 NSO Preview
Summer Newsletters for Families
From mid-June to September, the Approaching Stanford team will send a monthly Family Newsletter to parent/guardian contacts listed by your in your Approaching Stanford Forms. To add your parent/guardian to the mailing list after the Approaching Stanford Forms deadline (June 7), please send an email request with your parent/guardian's name and contact information to approaching@stanford.edu. Note that this request must come from you, the student, not your parent/guardian.
Once the academic year begins, these parents/guardians will begin receiving the quarterly Stanford Parent and Guardian Newsletter. To add your parent/guardian to the mailing list after the academic year begins, please send an email request with your parent/guardian's name and contact information to mykidis@stanford.edu. Again, this request must come from you, the student, not your parent/guardian.