WELCOME TO MILLS

Reserve your place at Admitted Student Preview Day on Friday, December 11, 2009.
Explore A Student's Guide to Mills College to get inside tips about Mills.
Mail in your housing contract and deposit so you can get a great room!
Accept your financial aid award.
Request your final high school or college transcript and send to the Office of Undergraduate Admission by January 10, 2010.
Orientation packets will be mailed in December.
Take your placement exams online for English, math, science, or language, if appropriate.
Activate your Mills computing account.
Make your first tuition payment (due Monday, January 4, 2010).
Submit a digital photo for your student identification card.
Plan your trip to Mills.
Pack!
Sign up for Orientation events.

Web confirmation of semester attendance (beginning 9:00 am on Monday, January 11, 2010).
Move in to your residence hall (beginning 9:00 am on Tuesday, January 19, 2010).
Register for classes (Tuesday, January 19–Friday, January 22, 2010).
Meet your resident assistant and academic advisor.
Complete a new student computer orientation session.
Join a club.
Get a job (see work-study opportunities in the M Center)!

See the 2010–11 Academic Calendar for important dates during the academic year.

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Wear your class color—green, blue, purple, or red—at different events to show your class spirit!
Hear about Mills' services at SO Mills: New Student Orientation.
Learn our school song—Fires of Wisdom—and celebrate with a candle-lighting ceremony during Orientation.
Read the new student book with your fellow incoming students and discuss with campus leaders and special guests.
Sip tea with Mills President Holmgren and your new classmates at the new student tea.
Begin the academic year at Convocation—a formal ceremony to welcome new students and honor graduating seniors and faculty. You wear your class color; alumnae and faculty wear regalia.
Invite your family and friends to Family Weekend so they can experience your life at Mills.
Discover all the clubs and activities on campus and connect with Bay Area resources at our block party.
Attend Reg Fest and learn more about the majors at Mills.
Watch the colors change when the graduating class paints parts of the campus with their color during senior paint night.
Learn about the Pearl M pin or the Mills equivalent of a senior class ring awarded to a senior by the Alumnae Association every April at the Pearl M dinner.
Celebrate Commencement each May on Toyon Meadow as students receive their degrees.