New Student Forms

These required forms will help both you and your academic advisor(s) better understand your interests and goals for your time at the University of Rochester. Use the instructions below to help you complete both forms by the deadlines provided.

Academic Interests Form

Please complete the following form to tell the advising team more about yourself and your interests as you begin your academic journey at the University of Rochester. If you have any questions about the form fields, please contact the Center for Advising Services at cascas@ur.rochester.edu.

Note: If you were unable to complete the form by the deadline or have changes to your form responses after submitting, you will be able discuss any updates to your academic plans with your advisor(s) over the summer.

How to find the form
  1. Log into your MyROC account.
  2. Locate the Academic Interests Form under the Required Forms for Enrolled Students heading.
  3. Click the form title to begin.

Log into MyROC

Form tips and instructions

Section: General Information

  • The First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, and Personal Email Address fields will all pre-populate with the information currently stored in your MyROC account. Please review this information to ensure it is accurate.
    • If your first or last name, or date of birth needs to be updated or corrected, please contact Admissions at admit@admissions.rochester.edu. 
    • If your email address needs to be updated, you can do so using the Change Email Address tool listed under Account Tools on your MyROC dashboard.
      • Please note: your Personal Email Address will display as the email address you used to create your MyROC account and/or submit your application. This will be used by the orientation team to send you an initial email communication in mid-May. After that, the Orientation team and all other University offices will use your Rochester email address for all further email communications.
  • Answer the rest of the questions in this section, as they are all required.

Section: Areas of Academic Interest

  • You only need to complete one of the three Intended Major fields, but we encourage you to complete all three if you have additional programs of study that you are interested in. If you have more than three programs of study that you're interested in, please include them when answering the What are your principal academic interests? question.
  • Use the major/minor search tool to learn more about the specific programs of study. Make sure to use the following filters to get a comprehensive list of available majors:
    • Under Degree Type, check Undergraduate.
    • Under Program Type, check Major.

Section: Getting to Know You

This section features additional questions to help your academic advisor(s) get to know you better. While this section is optional, we encourage you to complete all the questions, as this information will help you and your advisor(s) make the most out of your upcoming advising discussions.