Information for Transfer Students (students who earned 18 or more college credits after graduating from high school).

Information for First-Year Students (students who earned fewer than 18 credits after graduating from high school).

Transfer Students

If you earned 18 or more college credits after graduating from high school, you are considered a transfer student. Otherwise, you are considered a first-year student and should review the information in the First-Year Students section below.

Transfer students SHOULD NOT schedule an appointment using the links on this page. You will be contacted individually by email to arrange your advising appointment. Please contact Emilie Keeler at 610-285-5075 or by email at lvadvising@psu.edu if you do not have an email from Marta DaSilva with instructions.  

New First-Year Students

If you have earned fewer than 18 college credits after graduatiing from high school, you are considered a first-year student.  

Prepare for your advising meeting  

This initial advising meeting is an opportunity for you to talk one-on-one with an academic adviser about your academic interests and goals and to outline your initial steps to reach them.

The more prepared you are, the more the advising appointment can focus on you and your individual goals. 

• Complete and be able to discuss your NSO Tasklist. The transfer credit worksheet and the educational planning survey are important parts of the orientation advising meeting.
• Complete the content shared at the University welcome and in the Canvas modules.
• Complete the Course Planning Guide (part of the Canvas content) to build your tentative first-semester schedule in your LionPATH Enrollment Shopping Cart prior to your advising appointment.
• Complete your pre-registration activity guide and major preferences guide in LionPATH.

What to expect during the advising meeting 

During the academic advising meeting, you should expect to discuss your academic goals and interests—including how they relate to your academic journey at Penn State in general and your first-semester schedule in particular. This meeting is your final step to enroll in first-semester courses.

We hope that you will continue to engage with academic advisers throughout your academic career and that this will represent the first of many interactions.

Schedule as soon as possible

Schedule the first available appointment that works for you. The sooner you have this meeting, the more choices you will have. Reach out for help if you have trouble finding a time that works.

How to schedule your appointment

Please watch this brief video about how to schedule your advising appointment.

When you click a scheduling button, you will be prompted to log in to Penn State’s WebAccess if you are not already logged in. If you have not done so already, you will need to Enroll in Two-Factor Authentication. Instructions are linked on the WebAccess page.

Please note all meetings are in Eastern Time (GMT-5). Please join the Zoom meeting promptly at the start of your appointment time. That is, if your appointment is from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. (Eastern Time, GMT-5), you need to join the meeting by 9 a.m. (Eastern Time, GMT-5). 

You must check your Penn State email for the advising appointment confirmation. This confirmation email will contain the day, time (in EDT), and Zoom URL you will use to meet with your orientation adviser. If any changes are made to your scheduled appointment, new information will be sent to your Penn State email. Please check your Penn State email often, including immediately prior to your orientation advising appointment.

All advisers are prepared to work with students who are deciding among several interest areas.  Please do not schedule more than one appointment.

Schedule your advising appointment.

If you have trouble scheduling an advising appointment please contact Emilie Keeler at 610-285-5075 or by email at lvadvising@psu.edu.