Welcome Week 2026

Welcome Week is the first step in discovering how you belong in the BC Community! Welcome Week is designed for students to meet your FILA 150 classmates and a Soar Mentor, to learn expectations of living in the BC community and to provide resources to enhance your academic success.

First-Year Students

Transfer Students

What to look forward to:

Welcome Week is part of our required extended orientation and transition experience – and the official start of the Bridgewater College academic and co-curricular experience for new Eagles! 

First-Year Students will move in on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. You will spend a week with your Soar Mentor who will guide you through several days of learning about living in community at Bridgewater, getting to know members of your CL 100 class and instructor and forming a tight bond with other members of the Class of 2030. This is a required extension of our orientation and transition experience and will only be excused for students with extenuating circumstances. Please contact orientation@bridgewater.edu if you have said circumstances. 

Residential Transfer Students will join us on campus on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026.  On Monday, Aug. 24, all transfer students will meet their CL 300 classmates and professor and get acclimated to your new home.   

*Please note, if you are asked to arrive at campus early, that information will be communicated to you separately. 

Schedule of Events

The schedule of events for first year students and transfer students will be added soon.

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