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New Parent & Family Orientation

New Parent & Family Orientations are one-day sessions designed to welcome families to the UCLA community and address the concerns family members have relative to their student’s upcoming university experience. Bruin Day introduced you to the many opportunities available at UCLA but New Parent & Family Orientation will look closer at life on campus, strategies for success, and what it means to be the family of a thriving UCLA student.  Whether you are a family member of a first year or transfer student, new to UCLA or familiar with campus, a parent, partner, or supporter, we welcome you to our sessions.

Your session will feature presentations from UCLA staff, faculty, and students on academics, available services and educational opportunities, the transitional experiences of students and how families can support them, and general campus life. Lunch and light refreshments are included. All activities will be led by New Student Advisors, trained undergraduate counselors who are intimately familiar with the student experience.

New Parent & Family Orientation components are held separately of your student’s orientation session but do coincide with the last day of each three-day First Year session – as well as a standalone session on Saturday, August 5.  Family Orientation run from 8:00 am to approximately 5:30 pm PDT. Your new student(s) should attend a New Student Orientation as the Parent & Family sessions are not intended for students.

Please read through all the information about your session before making your reservation.  If you have any questions about New Parent & Family Orientation, please contact our office at (310) 206-6685, or email us through the MyUCLA Message Center (with UCLA login or without UCLA login).  If you are looking for lodging there are numerous local options nearby as well as the UCLA Guest House and Luskin Conference Center located conveniently on campus.

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SCHEDULE

Your New Parent & Family Orientation will include presentations about UCLA academic programs, advising, and requirements, campus safety and wellness, managing billing and financial aid, living on campus, the student union, and other campus resources. The program will also include information about the physical campus as well as an opportunity to hear from representatives from various student services and resources at UCLA, and lunch is included. Sessions run from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm PDT.

DATES

Summer 2023

Reservations for New Parent & Family Orientation open Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3:00 pm Pacific time.

Session Date Deadline to reserve or cancel
101: July 7 July 3
102: July 12 July 7
103: July 21 July 18
104: July 28 July 25
105: August 3 July 31
301: August 5 August 2
106: August 11 August 8
107: August 16 August 11
108: August 23 August 18
109: August 31 August 28
110: September 8 September 5
111: September 15 September 12

Special Considerations for Reservations

  • If you prefer an interpreter, we have some fluent speakers of languages other than English who may be able to assist in your session. Please specify your needs in the appropriate section on the reservation form and we will follow up with you.
  • If you have a permanent or temporary disability which would need to be addressed while participating in your session, we will make every effort to accommodate you. Please specify any needed accommodation on your reservation and we will follow up with you.
  • If you have dietary restrictions please specify your needs when making your reservation.  We will do our best to accommodate these requests when information is provided.
INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES

If you are not a California resident (you are an international student or live in another US state), you are welcome to attend any available New Parent & Family Orientation session.

Students who are international or out-of-state do have the option of staying in the residence halls for the period between New Student Orientation Sessions 110, 209, or 111 and the start of Fall Quarter – effectively an early move-in.  Students will remain in their New Student Orientation room until their Fall assignment is ready (typically within 1-2 days after the session), then move into their academic year room early, all with meals included. Please see the New Student Orientation Staythrough information for more details.

COSTS & BILLING

Session Fees

$75 per adult

$20 per child (under 18)

Billing Procedures

Your New Parent & Family Orientation fees will be billed to your student’s UCLA BruinBill according to the following schedule (no payment is due when you make a reservation):

July (New Parent & Family Orientation Sessions 101-104): billed in August, payment due in September.
August (New Parent & Family Orientation Sessions 105-109, 301): billed in September, payment due in October.
September (New Parent & Family Orientation Sessions 110-111): billed in late-September, with payment due in October.

Financial Assistance

We know the starting college has many costs and we want to make UCLA accessible for everyone. We hope to be able to provide a partial fee waiver for those in highest financial need, and we are actively working on establishing a process for fee waivers. For now, if you are interested, please mark the box when you make your reservation for New Student Orientation. If funding is available and we can provide this discount, you will be emailed prior to your session’s fee posting on BruinBill.

Regardless of the status of this possible partial fee waiver, anyone attending our programs can request a payment plan to distribute their session fees to be billed in Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. Please call or email us on the message center to request it.

If paying for New Parent & Family Orientation is the only reason preventing you from attending, please contact our office if you need assistance beyond these two solutions.

Payment Policies

  • Failure to pay orientation fees by the billing deadlines will result in a $20 per month Student Accounting late charge and will result in a hold on your student’s records.
  • If you are no longer planning to attend your orientation session, please contact our office to cancel your reservation in order to allow another family to attend. There is no fee for cancelling your New Parent & Family Session reservation prior to the day of the session.
  • If you or your student attend a session but do not attend UCLA, you will still be billed for all session fees for services provided.
  • Payments will only be accepted through the UCLA BruinBill.
  • Your student’s Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) fee does not cover New Parent & Family or New Student Orientation fees.
MAKE A RESERVATION

Reservations begin May 15, 2023 at 3pm (PDT), via the New Parent & Family Orientation Reservation System .

Space in each session is limited and reservations are processed in the order received. Please make sure to read all session information thoroughly including fees, deadlines, and the cancellation policy.

PREPARING FOR YOUR ORIENTATION
  • You can review the steps your student should be taking to prepare for UCLA by visiting the New Student Checklist for first year and transfer students.
  • Academic advising is essential for appropriate course enrollment and academic advisors and counseling are an integral part of your student’s New Student Orientation. Fall Quarter enrollment is a key component of this advising. We work with individual departments across campus to save seats for incoming students in many of the “high demand” General Education and/or major courses and disperse them evenly throughout the sessions.
  • Once you sign up for an orientation session, you will receive a confirmation email about your reservation and be given a link to the “Preparing for New Student Orientation” module. This module will introduce you to resources and websites you and your UCLA student will use that we will cover at New Student Orientation and New Parent & Family Orientation. Please complete the module before for your session.
  • If you’d like, listen to the Bruin Insights Podcast form June 2023 about the new student experience, featuring Kayla Albano from the UCLA Parent & Family Association, Abby Johnson from UCLA First-Year Experience, and Ryan Darling from New Student Academic Programs: Becoming A Bruin: Supporting Your Freshman
FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY ACT (FERPA)

In accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), New Student Academic Programs protects the confidentiality of any student (age 18 or over) records. Access to a student’s records – including all financial records – will be given to that student only, unless the student has given consent. For more information please visit the Department of Education or UCLA Registrar.