Western Carolina University will hold an open house event on October 27th from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm for prospective students. The agenda includes an information fair, welcome session, academic sessions in intended majors, and information sessions on financial aid and campus housing. About 90 departments, including the most popular majors of Nursing, Education, Athletic Training, and Forensic Sciences, will be represented. The goal of open house is to showcase all WCU has to offer and answer all student questions. Lunch and weekly tours are also available.
Western Carolina University will hold an open house event on October 27th from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm for prospective students. The agenda includes an information fair, welcome session, academic sessions in intended majors, and information sessions on financial aid and campus housing. About 90 departments, including the most popular majors of Nursing, Education, Athletic Training, and Forensic Sciences, will be represented. The goal of open house is to showcase all WCU has to offer and answer all student questions. Lunch and weekly tours are also available.
Western Carolina University will hold an open house event on October 27th from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm for prospective students. The agenda includes an information fair, welcome session, academic sessions in intended majors, and information sessions on financial aid and campus housing. About 90 departments, including the most popular majors of Nursing, Education, Athletic Training, and Forensic Sciences, will be represented. The goal of open house is to showcase all WCU has to offer and answer all student questions. Lunch and weekly tours are also available.
Western Carolina University will hold an open house event on October 27th from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm for prospective students. The agenda includes an information fair, welcome session, academic sessions in intended majors, and information sessions on financial aid and campus housing. About 90 departments, including the most popular majors of Nursing, Education, Athletic Training, and Forensic Sciences, will be represented. The goal of open house is to showcase all WCU has to offer and answer all student questions. Lunch and weekly tours are also available.
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Open house event at Western Carolina University for prospective students CULLOWHEE, NC- August 29, 2018. Western Carolina University Office of Admissions will be holding a campus wide open house event on Saturday, October 27th, 2018 from 8:30 am to 4:00pm. The agenda for open house is as follows: 8:30am – 10:00am Information fair held in the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center. Students will be able to talk to different departments from all over campus. 10:00am- 10:30am Welcome session by Sam Miller, PhD, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs as well as Phil Cauley, Director of Student Recruitment and Retention. 10:45am -11:45am Academic Sessions where guest will be able to speak to professors in their intended majors. 12:00pm- 4:00pm Information sessions on financial aid, the honors college, and how to pay for college, as well as tours of residential halls will be available. Western Carolina University has been organizing open house events since the 1980’s. About 90 different departments are represented at the open house events. About 60 of those departments are academic, with the most requested departments being Nursing, Education, Athletic Training, and Forensic Sciences. “At WCU, the Open House events are the ultimate showcase of what our institution has to offer for students that are trying to make decisions about their college career. Students can see everything from the different residence halls to the labs and classrooms used in their specific major. When a family attends an Open House event, our goal is that they have all their questions answered by the time they leave campus” said Patrick Frazier, Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marketing & Recruitment. Lunch vouchers will be available for the registered students and all dining facilities will be open to guest. Students who cannot attend the open house events or wish to have a more detailed tour of campus can go on one of the weekly tours. Weekly tours are held Monday through Friday at 10:00 am and 2:00pm. Preregistration for Open House and more information is available at openhouse.wcu.edu or by calling the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 828-227-7317.