Welcome to Incoming Students Events
Summer 2026
Local Harvard clubs often provide admitted students with their first in-person welcome to our Harvard community through welcome events in the summer (northern-hemisphere season).
- Welcome to Incoming Students & Their Families (Summer)
Welcome to Incoming Students events are a great opportunity to welcome newly enrolled students and their families and to engage with their local Harvard community. If your club is planning an incoming students' event, please consider a date between the June 13 to 30, 2026 timeframe while scheduling your event. Note that many students are likely to depart for campus’ programs before the academic start of the year. The deadline to register to host a Summer Welcome to Incoming & Their Families Event is Friday, May 1, 2026.
To register your club to host a summer welcome event please complete THIS FORM (only fully completed forms will be processed, and information added to the online listing). All the information you provide will be added to an event listings page (will be updated in 2026) to better facilitate the communication process for our colleagues at the Harvard Admission offices with the newly admitted and incoming students.
IMPORTANT:
Harvard College Schools & Scholarships Committee
- If there is a Harvard College Schools & Scholarships Committee in your area, please be in contact with them to coordinate efforts before completing the form.
- As not every country/city has a Harvard College Schools & Scholarships Committee, please reach out to ssinfo@fas.harvard.edu for details in your community. We would appreciate your patience regarding a possible delay in receiving a response as they are in the midst of the application process.
Harvard College Parents Committee
- Harvard College Parents Committee is eager to support efforts to welcome families to Harvard. This dedicated group of parent ambassadors help the College convene and foster an engaged and supportive community of Harvard parents around the world and are happy to assist through co-hosting the summer welcome event, taking the lead on the parent-focused portion of the event, or simply being a resource.
- As members of the Harvard College Parents Committee do not reside every country/city, please reach out to the Harvard College Fund Parent Engagement Program at HCF_PEP@harvard.edu for details in your community.
Other Information
- This initiative supported by the HAA is in addition to your own outreach to incoming students. Please verify that the student is admitted to/attending Harvard in the Fall 2026.
- Most Harvard Clubs share an expansive view of our Harvard community, welcoming parents and guardians of students. As you plan these events, please make every effort to include the families of incoming students. You can encourage newly admitted/incoming students to share the event invitations with their parents/guardians.
- The HAA is unable to provide admitted or enrolled student contact information. Promotion via the admissions offices is our only means of promoting these events to new students.
- It is not possible for us to provide counts of newly admitted/incoming students per city/country.
- Therefore, we recommend that you make sure that your event/s is/are of general interest to local alumni so that you will still be able to attract club members to attend even if there are few or no newly admitted or incoming students in your area.
- Please respect student privacy by refraining from posting or distributing their names, as well as any photos where nametags or other identifying details are visible.
Questions? Please contact your staff liaison or email clubs@harvard.edu.