A Distinctive First-Year Experience

Summer Registration
Choose your courses, learn about our traditions, and meet members of your class.

Fall Orientation
This four-day program helps our new students transition to college life. Begin classes, experience dorm life, and meet new students. You will receive your freshman beanie and experience the rich history and traditions of EC.

Candlelight Ceremony
Reflect at what lies ahead in your four years at Elmira College.

Parents' Weekend
Impress your parents with entertainment, honor society inductions, athletic competitions, local tours, and the annual Dinner Dance.

Experience Tradition
Mountain Day, Holiday Banquet and Ball, Core classes, Octagon Fair, the Honors and Recognition Banquet, theme dinners, freshman writing seminar, Midnight Madness...by the end of your first year, these and other proud traditions will have become a part of you, securing your own place in the legacy of Elmira College.