Advising » First-year students

The Academic Planning Guide is your guide to getting started at Wheaton. Explore. Discover. Start your journey here »

Get Started

• Submit Your First Year Seminar Choices
• Submit the Advising Questionnaire
• Complete the Summer Reading Assignment

Understand the Curriculum

• Foundations
• The Major
• Connections
• Minors
• Divisional Requirements

Complete your Course Planning Worksheet

• The First Semester
• Searching the Schedule of Classes
• Preparation for Potential Majors
• Health Careers: Pre-Med, Pre-Dental and Pre-Health Studies
• Foreign Language Placement Tests
• Music Theory and Performance
• APs, IBs and Alternate Sources of Credit
• Complete your Course Planning Worksheet

Planning tools

• Course Planning Worksheet
• Curriculum Map
• Four-Year Plan
• Weekly Planner

Advice for Students with Learning Differences

Three-Year Option

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