Steps After Being Admitted
A Distinctive First-Year Experience
Summer Registration
Choose your courses, learn about our traditions, and meet
members of your class. 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.