New Student To-Do List
Pre-Advising Requirements
Your Pre-Advising Requirements below must be completed before your scheduled advising appointment. To learn more about each item, click on the titles below.
- Register for Orientation after you confirm your offer of admission. June dates fill quickly.
- Complete the Pathways to Course Registration Modules
- Complete Placement Assessments, if necessary. Details and exemptions are included in the modules.
- Be Tech Ready before your orientation session.
- Send Updated Transcripts at least two weeks prior to your advising appointment.
Additional New Student To-Do List – Prior to Start of Classes
The Pre-Campus Arrival To-Do List should be completed before arriving on campus for your first semester of classes. To learn more about each item, click on the titles below.
- Complete Mandatory Programming after you complete orientation and before the start of classes.
- Send Vaccination Records after you confirm your offer of admission.
- Send Final Official Transcripts before the start of classes.
Complete Pathway to Course Registration Modules
The Pathway to Course Registration Modules are full of valuable resources including information about your academic plan and how to register for classes to help you get the most out of your academic advising and orientation sessions. Please complete your modules before arriving for New Coug Orientation. Please check your email frequently — additional information and reminders will be emailed to you leading up to your session.
The Pathway to Course Registration Modules for Spring Orientation are now live! Be sure to use the Student Login so completion of the modules is logged on your account.
Modules for students attending summer 2025 orientation sessions are currently under development.
Placement Assessments
It is important that students who need to take these exams complete them at least two weeks prior to their academic advising appointment, as scores will determine which classes you are eligible to register for with your academic advisor.
Math Readiness Survey
As part of your pre-advising, please submit the brief Math Readiness Survey. If you have taken a college level math course or an AP, Cambridge, CLEP, IB, or SBAC exam for math credit it will be helpful to have your transcripts ready before filling out the survey. You will need to input the name of the credit issuing institution and course.
ALEKS Math Placement Assessment
Complete the ALEKS math placement assessment if you are not transferring in college-level math. Do I need to take the math placement assessment?
Writing Placement Assessment
Take the Writing Placement Assessment if you plan to enroll in English 101 or an equivalent course. Do I need to take the writing placement assessment?
Foreign Language Placement
If you plan to enroll in a foreign language course, please visit the Language Placement Testing website for more information.
Be Tech Ready
Activate Your Okta Account
Log in to your FutureCoug Portal and click “activate Okta” next to your Network ID. Then, follow the directions to activate your Okta authentication.
Setup Your WSU Email Account
We strongly recommend setting up your WSU email account before orientation.
- Go to the website office365.wsu.edu.
- Login on the WSU Sign In Page with your Network ID and Password (same as myWSU login).
- On the Office 365 Landing Page, click the “Mail” Icon.
- The first time you access this, it will ask you to set your time zone.
- This will then take you to your Inbox for your Office 365 email account.
- Your email address will be your_networkid@wsu.edu.
Apps & Tech Assistance
- Install the Guidebook App. Visit https://guidebook.com/space/wsunco/ from your phone to install.
- Download the ZeeMee App. Visit https://zeemee.app.link/wsupullman from your phone to install.
- Need technology assistance? Contact Crimson Service Desk or call 509-335-HELP (509-335-4357)
Send Updated Transcripts
Pre-Advising: Send updated transcripts prior to your scheduled advising appointment or orientation session (whichever comes first) to get the most out of your advising experience. This includes Fall 2024 grades, AP test scores, and other college level coursework. These can be unofficial transcripts.
Pre-Campus Arrival: Make sure that your high school or transfer institution and testing agencies are sending final official transcripts and test scores to the WSU Office of Admissions. Students who are in Running Start, High School in the College, or other dual enrollment programs must send transcripts from each college/university providing college-level academic credit.
Apply for Campus Housing
Spring/August New Coug Orientation: Housing is not provided. Students will move directly into their housing for the semester.
Summer New Coug Orientation: Students will be housed in our residence halls.
You can apply for housing 24 – 48 hours after you have confirmed your admission. If you’re eligible to live off-campus, explore additional options at offcampusliving.wsu.edu. The priority deadline for new housing applications is May 1, 2025. All applications received at that time will be treated equally in the first round of the placement process.
Complete Mandatory Programming
Incoming first-year and transfer students are required to complete the following mandatory programs:
Consent and Respect: This course discusses healthy and unhealthy relationships, the importance of consent, and how to report gender-based violence if it occurs.
Alcohol Wise: This 15-20-minute self-guided alcohol survey provides feedback specific to your own alcohol usage. The program is required for all incoming students who will be under the age of 21 at the beginning of their first semester.
Hazing and Hosting: This course helps you identify and report hazing if you see it happening. Washington State has a no-tolerance hazing law.
Instructions to complete this programming will be sent to your WSU email address from WSU Health Education.
It is your responsibility to complete this program during your first semester. Failure to complete the course will result in a hold on your student account. See more about the mandatory programs or contact WSU Health Education with any questions: health.education@wsu.edu.
Send Vaccination Records
WSU students are required to provide documentation of:
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Measles (Rubeola), OR MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) Vaccine
- Meningococcal Vaccine (MCV4/ACWY)*
- Tdap – tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough (Pertussis) Vaccine
- Varicella (chicken pox) Vaccine
- Tuberculosis screening for high-risk populations (Login to your WSU Patient Portal to complete the screening)
Find details regarding immunization requirements, submitting documentation, exemption requests or getting immunized if you have not done so at cougarhealth.wsu.edu or contact cougarhealth.immunizations@wsu.edu.
Failure to complete the course will result in a hold on your student account.
Note: If you were vaccinated in Washington State but cannot find your records, view the instructions for downloading your immunization records.