Welcome Class of 2024
New Student Dates & Deadlines
Below you will find a list of incoming student processes and deadlines in order of which they occur.
New Student Dates & Deadlines
Below you will find a list of incoming student processes and deadlines in order of which they occur.
Important Dates and Deadlines
Regular decision applicants are notified
Vaccination, health, and physical record forms
Print the vaccination record form. Take this form to your healthcare provider now and have it completed. Download and complete the health and physical exam form.
Directed Studies application opens
Deadline for both early action and regular decision applicants to accept Yale's offer of admission
Deadline to submit the Housing & Advising form
Yale Payment Plan Enrollment Opens
Registration opens for pre-orientation programs
Deadline to submit the Slifka Center form
If you are an observant Jewish student for whom electronics to enter a dormitory or residential college on the Sabbath and holidays poses a problem.
Deadline to request special consideration in rooming because of a disability or medical condition (including environmental allergies)
Yale College Programs of Study (YCPS) available online
High School Math and Science Survey opens
Must be completed by first-year students before July 31.
Deadline to apply for Directed Studies (DS)
Deadline to upload photo id for identification card
Contact id.center@yale.edu if you missed the deadline.
Summer online placement exams begin
Deadline to set up proxy for YalePay
Deadline to register for Pre-Orientation Programs
Deadline to submit the student bond
Mail the completed bond to Yale University, PO Box 208232, New Haven, CT 06520-8232. We cannot accept emailed forms as the bond contains sensitive information.
Students may begin to waive parts of health coverage
Access the Yale Medicat portal and enter your vaccination record information and upload all of your health-related documents
Find your residential college, room, roommate, and first-year counselor
Once you are assigned to a residential college you will be assigned to a first-year counselor. Your counselor lives in the same residence and will help to ease the transition to the academic, social, and cultural life of Yale College. You may also sign up for a peer liaison. Peer liaisons are upperclassmen who help connect first-year students to the wealth of support and programming initiatives based in the LGBTQ Resource Center, the University Chaplain’s Office, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the La Casa Latino Cultural Center, and the Native American Cultural Center.
Fall-term fees available for payment
Deadline to complete Family Information form
Deadline to complete the Office of the Chaplain religious information form
Undergraduate Regulations are available online
Deadline to submit Common Application Final Report
Deadline to submit the FOOT medical form
Deadline to complete the High School Math and Science Survey
Deadline to submit student allergy medical treatment plan form
Deadline for entering/uploading vaccination record and health forms into the Yale Medicat site
Fall-term fees payment due
Deadline for request to withhold directory information (optional)
Summer online placement exams deadline
Pre-Orientation Programs begin
Cultural Connections (CC) program move-in Saturday morning.
FOCUS program move-in Saturday morning.
Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT) 6-day program move-in Saturday morning.
Harvest program move-in Saturday morning.
Orientation for International Students (OIS) program move-in Saturday morning.
Cultural Connections (CC) program begins Saturday afternoon.
FOCUS program begins Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT) 6-day program begins Saturday afternoon.
Harvest program begins Saturday afternoon.
Orientation for International Students (OIS) program begins Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT) 4-day program begins
Opening Day: Residence halls open for first-year students at 9am
Classes begin
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First-Year Orientation (required for all first years). All first-years must be on campus from 8 pm on Friday, August 28 through the evening of September 4 to attend mandatory events.
Deadline to waive parts of health coverage
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Family Weekend
Yale College opens its doors to families and friends and invites everyone to attend the dozens of events planned around campus and throughout New Haven.
Whether you plan to visit the newly renovated art gallery, cheer one of our teams to victory, or sit in on a discussion of Yale College life, you will find the details to those and all other events here. And as you plan your stay, you will also find everything you need to know about navigating the city, dining, and lodging.
Return to New Student Section
An easy way to return to the New Student Resources section and continue reviewing the materials that will help you get prepared to come to campus
