Congratulations

We welcome you, as an officially admitted student, to your Domain. All your hard work over the past four years has come to fruition–and trust us, we know you’ve worked hard. Now it's time you decide whether the next four years will be spent diving into your academic life, leading SOP trips, getting to know professors over a cup of coffee, and forging exceptional friendships with folks from all around the country. Come start the newest and most exciting chapter of your life–today, right here at Sewanee. Congratulations on being admitted to Sewanee!

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My Sewanee Story: Watson Hartsoe

This is Watson's story. What will your Sewanee story be?

Watson Hartsoe
Longboarder, anthropology major, youth mentor, rocketman.

Let's Celebrate at sewanee

EXPERIENCE SEWANEE

Experience is open to all admitted students. This visit program will allow admitted students to tour campus, meet other admitted students and parents, hear from current students on their Sewanee experience, and meet faculty in departments that align with your academic interests.

 

EQB AWARDS DAY

EQB Awards Day is an invitation-only event for admitted students. This event is a fantastic way to see all that Sewanee has to offer academically, athletically, and socially during one of the most beautiful times of the year. Connect with Faculty, current students, and celebrate your well deserved academic achievement.

 

PERSPECTIVE SEWANEE

Perspective Sewanee is an invitation-only event for admitted students. Perspective offers an engaging program for admitted students interested in discovering the diversity of people and the numerous multicultural opportunities Sewanee has to offer. Admitted students interested in this program who would like to be considered for an invitation should email their admission counselor.

 

Can't make one of these events? No problem. Schedule your very own admitted student day when it works for you!

Enrollment Checklist

What's more real than your very own Sewanee email and student ID? Pay your enrollment deposit and get started on your Enrollment Checklist! By completing the heavy lifting now, Sewanee's comprehensive enrollment checklist allows you to focus on the hard stuff before move-in this August. Login to your Applicant Status Page to begin working on your Enrollment Checklist!

A sample of Your Enrollment Checklist 
  • Active your Sewanee Email account
  • Complete your Residential Life form
  • Begin the course selection process
  • Submit your photo for your Sewanee ID card

On the Domain

Tour your new playground, your laboratory, your new home on the Cumberland plateau.

Nate Wilson
University of the South's Domain Manager, Nate Wilson, takes you on a tour of Sewanee's 13,000

Arrival & orientation

We cannot wait to welcome you in August! Over multiple weeks, Campus Life will organize the arrival and move-in of multiple new students to campus. Incoming students should consult with their Admission Counselor if they have questions regarding their arrival. 

  • New Students can participate in Finding Your Place, PRE, or their fall sport. Fall varsity athletes on the field hockey, football, soccer, and volleyball teams are unable to participate in FYP or PRE as this will conflict with pre-season practice. Read more on FYP & PRE below.
  • All incoming students will participate in New Student Orientation. 
  • Families are encouraged to attend New Student Orientation. 
  • International students should review arrival information from the Office of Global Citizenship. 
INCOMING STUDENTS | LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS | UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Finding Your Place  Aug. 12-21, 2020
PRE Aug. 19-21, 2020

New Student Orientation - Family portion ends at 2 pm on Aug. 23.

Aug. 22-25, 2020
First-Day of Classes Aug. 26, 2020

The Sewanee Outing Program (SOP)

On SOP trips, students learn valuable leadership and technical skills while gaining a greater appreciation for the natural world.

Joyce & Rob
The Sewanee Outing Program (SOP) gives students the chance to explore Sewanee’s 13,000-acre campus, the surrounding region, and wilderness areas across the United States.

Sewanee Outing Program's PRE Orientation (PRE)

PRE-Orientation offers incoming first year students the opportunity to get to know Sewanee in a unique and exciting atmosphere. While familiarizing themselves with the 13,000-acre Domain, students meet other first year students and upperclassmen in an environment that creates trust and establishes new friendships.

Whether rock climbing for the first time, crawling through winding passages in Walker Springs Cave, or building a house with Sewanee Outreach, PRE-Orientation provides memories and friendships that will last a lifetime. Registration will open in mid-April 2020.

 

Walking in Place

Geology Professor Bran Potter leads a field visit to explore the geology and hydrology of Lost Cove during Sewanee’s Finding Your Place program.

Finding Your Place
FYP is a serious academic endeavor. You will study hard and push yourself to examine topics and perspectives that you may not have considered thus far. Don’t worry, that’s good. That’s what Sewanee is all about.

Finding your place (fyp)

Why does place matter? Places speak to us through our senses and their sense of community, through their stories and their history, through the environment and the culture—but the truth is, it takes time and attention to make a place your own. This program is a great way to get started. 

Finding Your Place is a first-year program (conveniently the same acronym) that introduces first-year students to campus, course work, professors, and classmates. Its place-based approach synthesizes knowledge and experiences across many disciplines and prepares students for an engaged life in and beyond Sewanee. Registration will open in mid-April 2020.

Beyond the Gates

Amy Hobeika, C'92
A microbiology class at Sewanee sparked an interest in Amy Hobeika, C’92, that led to a career in medical research. Today, as a faculty member at Duke University, Hobeika is conducting research that may lead to the development of cancer vaccines.

Career Prep

Whether your immediate postgraduate goal is graduate school or a career, the Sewanee Career Center is here to give you a hand from the very beginning.

Starting your freshman year, the Career Center staff will encourage you to look into summer internships. Then, they’ll tell you all about the endowed internship funds that provide over $600,000 to Sewanee students pursuing otherwise-unpaid internships and research opportunities each summer.

The Career Center also works with our students after graduation to see how they’re faring in the “real world.” Here’s what they found out about the Class of 2018 seven months after graduation: 

  • 98.3% of graduates were employed, in graduate/professional school, or pursuing internships or fellowships
  • 74% were employed
  • 14% were in graduate or professional school

Our dynamic Outcomes Infographic can show you even more about the fields that Sewanee’s academic programs prepare you for. If you really like a lot of information, check out where graduates have landed since 2010. It's sorted by academic major. 

The Sewanee Pledge

The Sewanee Pledge
Guaranteed. Funding for a summer internship or research fellowship. Study abroad for a semester at no additional tuition cost. Graduate in four years.

The Sewanee Pledge  

Sewanee has taken a leading role in making a first-rate education more accessible, making scheduling and advising more personal, and making honor central to life on the Domain. Now, we have deepened our commitment by adding new guarantees for new students.

  • We pledge—to help Sewanee graduates secure good jobs and spots at top graduate programs by providing funding for a summer internship or research fellowship.
  • We pledge—to help Sewanee graduates find their place in an increasingly interconnected world by providing you with access to a semester-long study-abroad program at no additional tuition cost.
  • We pledge—that you will graduate in four consecutive years (with one major). If you do not, Sewanee will provide up to one additional year of study tuition-free.

Of course, you will have to do your part, too. But if you meet Sewanee’s academic and social expectations, we pledge—we guarantee—to make these opportunities available to you.

You've got questions? We've got answers.

Living
  • How do I find out what my mailing address in Sewanee will be? The Sewanee Post Office (SPO) is responsible for handling every Sewanee student’s mail and packages. 

More about Sewanee

Visit Sewanee
Welcome to the Domain

A visit to the Domain (it's what we call our 13,000-acre campus) is the best way to determine if Sewanee is a good fit for you. Once you set foot on campus, spend time with our students and professors, or take a stroll through Abbo's Alley, we are confident that Sewanee will find its way into your heart.

Come see us
Programs of Study
37 Majors, 43 Minors, 15 special programs, & More

Our small classes mean that your voice will be heard, your contribution will be expected, and your opinion will be listened to (and disagreed with, and challenged, and seen from a different perspective, and pushed in a new direction, and considered—and you know what? Maybe we’re both right. See how it works?).

Explore Majors & Minors
Campus Life
Welcome movers, shakers, dreamers, explorers, and soon-to-be lifelong friends.

We're a community where everyone has a place and there's a place for everyone. Group study? We'll bring our notes. Rock climbing? We're geared up and ready. Jam session? Sure, we'll play with you. Whatever you want to do, at Sewanee, you'll never have to go it alone. Unless you need your space. Then, we totally get it.

Our promise