Summer Newsletters

2026 Weekly Student Newsletters

The Approaching Stanford Newsletter is sent to all incoming undergraduate first-year students each week, beginning in May. The newsletter, delivered only to your Stanford email account, provides campus information, critical updates, and necessary action items leading up to New Student Orientation. To ensure you don't miss a newsletter, use your SUNet ID to log into your Microsoft 365 Stanford email account at webmail.stanford.edu.

• May 8, 2026 - Welcome, Class of 2030!
• May 11, 2026 - Approaching Canvas Course, Frosh Forms, and Summer Bridge Program
• May 18, 2026 - Frosh Requirements and Special Programs: ITALIC, SLE, Summer Bridge
• May 27, 2026 - Frosh Housing and Disability-Related Housing Accommodations
• June 2, 2026 - Frosh Forms & Housing Due June 5, Summer & Pre-Orientation Programs, Language Requirement

Summer Newsletters for Families

From mid-June to September, the Approaching Stanford team will send a monthly Family Newsletter to parent/guardian contacts listed by your in your Approaching Stanford Forms. To add your parent/guardian to the mailing list after the Approaching Stanford Forms deadline, please send an email request with your parent/guardian's name and contact information to approaching@stanford.edu. Note that this request must come from you, the student, not your parent/guardian.

Once the academic year begins, these parents/guardians will begin receiving the quarterly Stanford Parent and Guardian Newsletter. To add your parent/guardian to the mailing list after the academic year begins, please send an email request with your parent/guardian's name and contact information to mykidis@stanford.edu. Again, this request must come from you, the student, not your parent/guardian.