Academic Advising Registration and Orientation is underway at SMU, events for first-year and incoming transfer students kick off June 29 and conclude August 17.
According to SMU’s Office of New Student Orientation and Student Support, the university will welcome more than 1,400 first-year students and 300 transfer students from 39 countries this fall. The class of 2014 is 53 percent female and 47 percent male, and 54 percent of SMU’s incoming class is from out of state, with native Texans in the minority at 46 percent.
Welcoming the class of 2014 are 15 student leaders and directors who have dedicated their summer to showing the class of 2014 the ropes at SMU.
SMU senior Katie Castellucci, Mustang Corral director, joined AARO “to provide a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere for all of the incoming students.” She hopes to make the new students comfortable in a new environment.
“I wanted to make Mustang Corral a memorable experience for all the incoming students,” Castellucci said.
“I, myself, hope to gain a better Mustang Corral experience, and hope that the incoming students will feel welcomed at SMU.”
Joining Castellucci as a MustangCorral director is SMU senior Stephanie Chung, who hopes “to adequately prepare all first-year students for an amazing upcoming year, and to help connect them to the abundance of resources, people and opportunities here at SMU.”
This is not Chung’s first rodeo; she served as a Mustang Corral leader for the class of 2013 and enjoyed sharing her knowledge and love for SMU with the incoming first-years that she decided to return this fall.
“I hope to gain more experience with working in student affairs and I look forward to being able to contribute to all the programs in the Office of New Student Orientation and Student Support, in addition tolearning and growing as an individual this summer,” she said.
AARO sessions are jam-packed with information on SMU for both students and parents, including advising, residence hall tours, student and faculty panels, campus involvement and resource expos.
Welcome activities, which include events like “Night At The Club” on August 21 and the Rotunda Passage and Convocation on August 22, begin after AARO.
