First-Year Student Programs
Welcome, DePauw University Class of 2027!
As a teacher and adviser, I love what I do––and can only hope that this love speaks for itself.-Andrea Sununu Professor of English
Welcome the class of 2027!
This site will be your online resource as you prepare to join the DePauw family.
Visit this webpage for helpful resources!
- Summer Gold Visit Days
- Academic Life
- Parents & Family
- Mentor Program
- Important Contacts
- Helpful Resources
Helpful Resources
Here I am, 20 years later, instructing students in the same classroom where the light came on for me.-Greg Schwipps Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the English Department
TRANSITION & SUMMER ORIENTATION
Transition & Summer Orientation will provide you various items that you will need to complete prior to arriving at DePauw. More details will be available in May 2023.
Summer Transition ChecklistAugust First-Year Student Orientation
Members of the Class of 2027 are required to attend orientation in its entirety from August 19 - August 27. More information on the Fall 2023 schedule will be available in summer of 2023.
The proposed 2023 - 2024 Academic Calendar can be found here.
International Students should plan to arrive for International Student Orientation. For more information, visit the International Student Affairs webpage.
Academics at DePauw
Your first year at DePauw is a time to explore your academic interests, your personal values, and your career and life goals. It is a time to begin building a solid foundation of skills, methodologies, and approaches that extend across several intellectual disciplines.
Explore MoreMeet Your Student Mentors
First-Year Mentors serve as tremendous sources of support to students.
Each First-Year Seminar has an upper-class student leader - called a Mentor - who works with the students in the seminar outside of the classroom. Mentors promote the intellectual, social and personal development of first-year students during their entire first year at DePauw.
Mentor Program & GroupsParent & Family Information
The parent and family webpage a the Class of 2027 in May 2023 is helpful to support your students' transition to DePauw. We hope that you will find this information useful as you help your student prepare for life to college.
Class of 2027 Parent & FamilyHelpful Hints and Visiting Campus
Helpful Hints
Here is some information that will be helpful to you as you think about making DePauw and Greencastle your new home. Please check back here often as information will be added as it becomes available.
Want to visit?
Check out our various opportunities for in person visits. You can meet with our counselors, a coach or professor, and learn more about DePauw. Lets meet!