Explore Goshen Day Sample Schedule

 

9 a.m. Check in & Continental Breakfast

9 a.m Get Involved Fair – Opportunities

9:30 a.m. Welcome & Ice Breaker

10 a.m. General & Special Tracks Divide 

General Track Special Track
10 a.m.  Academic Spotlight – Meet Professors (Fellowship Hall) 10 a.m. Meet your Special Track

Guide in Sanctuary

 (See bottom of schedule for details.)

11 a.m.  Admissions Session 
11:30 a.m. Financial Aid Session 

12 p.m. General & Special Tracks rejoin

12 p.m.  Lunch at Westlawn Dining Hall 

1 p.m.  Campus Tour

2:00 p.m. Student Life Panel (Church Sanctuary)

Current GC students

2:30 p.m. Wrap Up (Church Sanctuary)

2:45 p.m. Divide based on Track

General Track Specific Track (Business & Nursing)
Check out (Fellowship Hallway)

  • Turn in Survey & Students can receive FREE T-shirt in return
  • Visit excuse form – If needed
  • Turn in your Application – We will waive the $25 application fee for visiting today
  • Counselors are available for individual meeting
  • 3:30pm Meet Overnight Host (If you signed up earlier)
2:45 pm. Admissions Session (Church Sanctuary)

3:15 pm. Financial Aid Session  (Church Sanctuary)

3:45 pm. Check out (Fellowship Hallway)

  • Turn in Survey & Students can receive FREE T-shirt in return
  • Visit excuse form – If needed
  • Turn in your Application – We will waive the $25 application fee for visiting today
  • Counselors are available for individual meeting
  • 3:45pm Meet Overnight Host (If you signed up earlier)

 

Thank you for visiting Goshen College!

 

Special Track Schedules

(Special Track activities occur during the 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. time slot and after 3:15 p.m. outside these times you follow the regular schedule above)

Pre-Med Special Track – Sept. 15, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary (Ryan Sensenig)

10:15 a.m. Program Overview (Ryan Sensenig)

10:30 a.m. Admissions Criteria for Medical Schools (Jody Saylor)

              What you need to study for college

11 a.m. Tour Chemisty & Biology Labs – Student Research Projects

11:30 a.m. Med School & After with a Doctor

             Student Panel

12 p.m. Lunch with current students 

Education Special Track – Sept. 29, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary

10-10:15 a.m. Program Description

10:15-10:45 a.m. Hands-on Learning Experience

10:45-11:15 a.m. Activity in the College Kindergarten

11:15-11:30 a.m. Additional Program Description

11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Meet with Current Students

12 p.m. Lunch with Current Students

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3:15-4 p.m. Reception with Indiana Teacher of the Year, Jitka Nelson (Koinonia Room)

Sign Language Special Track – Sept. 29, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary (Sandy Slabaugh)

10 a.m.-12 p.m. –  Panel Discussion: Visiting students will meet with current students in the program to ask questions and talk about the program and life on campus.  Parents will be invited to meet with Sign Language Interpreting faculty to ask their questions.

12 p.m. – Lunch with current Goshen College Sign Language students

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Friday, 5 p.m. – Visiting students can meet in front of the Welcome Center where GC students will guide them to our event.  We’ll have dinner, play some of our favorite “silent” games, and have a chance to get to know each other a bit better.

Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-9 a.m. Breakfast with ASL students (Newcomer Center, Room 17)

Saturday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. ASL/Theater workshop by Colleen Geier & Amber Burgess, professional actor (Newcomer Center, Room 17)

Saturday, 12 p.m. Stay for lunch or depart for home

Environmental Science & Sustainability Special Track – Sept. 29, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary (Ryan Sensenig & Ruth Mischler)

10:15 a.m. Program Overview (Science Hall, Room 106)

10:30 a.m. Depart for Merry Lea

11:15 a.m. Programming at Rieth Village Ecological Field Station

12 p.m. Lunch with Current GC Students & Discussion of Sustainability Leadership Semester in Residence

12:30 p.m. Field Activities (Farm Tour, Tallgrass Prairie Research)

1:15 p.m. Depart Merry Lea for Goshen College

2 p.m. Arrive back & join Student Panel Session

Nursing Special Track – Oct. 27, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary 

10:15 a.m. Program Overview & Hands-on Activities

12 p.m. Lunch with Current Nursing students or bring students back to fellowship hall to join group  

Business (Accounting, Business, Marketing, & Sustainability Management) Special Track – Oct. 27, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary

12 p.m. Lunch with current students 

Theater Special Track – Nov. 9, 2017

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary

10:15 a.m. Theater Program Overview

10:30 a.m. Short Skits

11 a.m. Theater Tour – (Parent’s are welcome to stay or attend parent session in church)

11:15 a.m. Student Panel

12 p.m. Lunch with current students

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Evening – Mainstage Presentation

Nursing Special Track – March 9, 2018

10 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary 

12 p.m. Lunch with current nursing students or bring students back to fellowship hall to join group  

Communication Special Track – March 9, 2018

10:00 a.m. Meet Special Track Guide in Sanctuary

10:15 a.m. Communication Program Overview

10:30 a.m. What’s the Record?

10:30 a.m. Where’s the Globe? 91.1 Radio Station

11 a.m. FiveCore Media Showing

11:15 a.m. Student Panel

12 p.m. Lunch with Current Students