Key Deadlines
Check your HLS email account regularly for important information from HLS departments and community members.
- Apply for financial aid.
- Apply for housing.
- Apply for ADA and/or medical accommodations.
- May 5: Activate your HLS email account. Instructions will be sent to your personal email from the J.D. Admissions Office.
- June 1: Submit required student visa documentation to the J.D. Admissions Office.
- June 11: Deadline to provide Health and Immunization Records to Harvard University Health Services.
- June 22: Zero-L online course goes live.
- July 1: Deadline to provide official final transcript(s) and college certifications to the J.D. Admissions Office.
- July 4: Register to vote.
- July 15: Deadline to submit a photo for your Harvard University ID card.
- July 25: Your first Student Account Notice (this includes your tuition charges) will be sent.
- July 31: Deadline to waive University-sponsored health insurance.
- Early August: You will receive an email with instructions for logging into HELIOS, our student web interface, to update your contact and emergency information.
- Early August: Your Amicus profile goes live.
- August 1: Update your MessageMe profile.
- August 10: Deadline to have any student loan included in the calculation of the books and supplies cash advance (if eligible).
- Your second Student Account Notice (this includes your tuition charges) will be sent. Your account must be paid prior to registration.
- Deadline to set up direct deposit within your student account in order to receive an books and supplies cash advance (if eligible).
- August 12: Deadline to Purchase an MBTA pass through the Dean of Students Office (if needed).
- August 15: Deadline to review and complete “Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Other Sexual Misconduct.” Details will be sent to your HLS email account in July.
- August 15: Last day to pay your Student Account either via payment or financial aid.
- August 16: The books and supplies allowance cash advance will be released to you (if you are eligible and have setup direct deposit).
- August 22-24: University ID card Pick-up – This is a mandatory event. This will be a rolling process occurring Monday through Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. More details will be available later this summer.
- August 23: Deadline to have any student loan for which you have applied included in the calculation of your fall semester cash advance.
- August 23: Deadline to set up direct deposit within your student account in order to receive a fall semester cash advance directly to your bank account. If you do not set up direct deposit your advance will be mailed to the local address you have on file with the HLS Registrar. International students who do not yet have a US bank should contact SFS for guidance.
- August 24: Deadline to update your contact and emergency information in HELIOS.
- August 25-30: Mandatory 1L Orientation. Programming begins on Thursday, August 25 and continues through Tuesday, August 30. Attendance for the entirety of Orientation is mandatory for all incoming 1Ls and will occur on campus in Cambridge. The student services teams will provide further information, including your section’s Orientation schedule, in early August. Planning is also underway for social programming over that weekend.
- August 26: Date you will receive your fall semester cash advance (if eligible).
- August 31: First day of 1L classes.