Bear-y Important Newsletter #7 | July 31, 2026

! Top Tasks !

• Get ready for course registration
• Upload your AP/IB scores
• Complete the Anti-Hazing program
• Submit Health Requirements
• Send O-Trip paperwork
• Attend Pre-Arrival Webinar
• Report outside scholarships to Bursar

ACADEMICS 
 

Course Registration is here!

• Review step-by-step Registration Guide. 

• Register in Workday—your first schedule can be just a starting point. 

• Have questions? Join a placement or advising Zoom session or email askacademics@bowdoin.edu. 

• On August 31, meet your advisor; and speak to faculty at the Academic Fair. 

Registration: August 6 at 9:00 AM EDT (First-Year Students)

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AP/IB and other External Exam Scores

If applicable, please confirm your Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or other international examination scores are reflected in Workday. You only have until the end of your sophomore year to submit these scores.  

→ View Your Test and Placement Scores 
→ Guidelines: Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or other international examination scores 

ARRIVAL DAY

Arrival Day Schedule & Map LIVE!

Check the First-Year Experience webpage for the official Arrival Day Schedule & Map beginning August 1! Find all the details about the big day there and share with your families.

COMMUNITY BUILDING

 

Stop Campus Hazing Training - Required for All Incoming Students

Complete the very important but quick (under 30 minutes) hazing training required of all incoming students. 

→ Stop Campus Hazing Training

Deadline: August 15

HEALTH AND WELLNESS 

Why is it important to submit Health requirements?

You may have missing immunizations that you need to get prior to arrival.
You may need help with prescriptions that require shipping and storage.
You are an athlete that needs to be cleared for participation.
You don’t want a HOLD on your course registration!

→ New Student Health Forms

MAIL CENTER

Send Packages to the Mail Center!

You can now send packages earlier, starting August 3. Each student is assigned a unique Smith Union shipping address, easily found on Workday under View Profile → Contact. You will receive an email notification from the Mail Center system once we’ve received and processed any of your mail items. 

→ Find more information here
→ Mail Center

O-TRIPS 

Orientation Trip Assignments are Out! Paperwork due August 10!

Check your Bowdoin email to find your orientation trip assignment. Please submit your O-Trip paperwork (linked in your email) by August 10.  

→  Read about your orientation trip and get your packing list

Deadline: August 10

PRE-ARRIVAL

Pre-Arrival Webinar Meeting and Live Q&A

Tuesday August 11, 2026
7pm - 8:30pm EDT
Zoom Link 

Learn about Arrival Day and Orientation during a live Zoom webinar. Staff from Academics, Dean’s Office, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Outing Club, and ResLife will answer your questsions LIVE. Students, parents, and families encouraged to attend.  

RES LIFE 

What Brick will you live in? Housing Assignments arrive early August

We are diligently working through first-year housing, and you will hear from us in early August with your dorm and roommate assignments! At that time, we will also ask you to select an arrival time for move-in day, which is crucial to helping us manage move-in day traffic. 

→ Read about First-Year Housing

STUDENT ACCOUNTS 

Do You Have a Scholarship from Outside of Bowdoin?

If you were awarded a scholarship from outside of Bowdoin that will be sent directly to Bowdoin, please report that to the Bursar's Office via Workday. Check your email for messages from Bursar-Student Accounts dated July 10 & 27 for more information.

→ Email the Bursar

 ☆ Top Tips ☆

• TRIVIA: Enter to win a $5 Bowdoin Café card by answering this question: "Ivies is a Bowdoin Spring tradition with activities aimed at bringing the campus community together. What event in 1865 led to it being called "Ivies"?". The answer to the previous newsletter's trivia was "Hawthorne and Longfellow".
• Bicycles at Bowdoin! Bicycling is a great way to get around campus and the town of Brunswick.  For information on Bowdoin’s free daily and semester long bike rentals, or details on how to register your own bicycle (required) as well as bike storage and bike safety, visit our Bicycles at Bowdoin website! →  Bowdoin’s Bike Info and Resources Hub
• Family Chat: Now is a great time to sit down with your family and make sure you're all on the page about your plans for arriving to campus in a few short weeks.