New Student Check-in

Next Steps

• Reserve your space by paying your $100 commitment fee. Download the form (43 KB, PDF).
• Request that your final official transcript from high school with a graduation date, Advance Placement test scores and official college transcript(s) (if applicable) be sent to the Academic Advising and Registration Office. This is mandatory and should be done as soon as possible after completion of all courses so proper credit can be applied towards your student record.
  
  Transcripts and AP test scores should be sent to the following address:
  ATTN: Coordinator
  Academic Advising & Registration Office
  College for Creative Studies
  201 East Kirby
  Detroit, MI 48202
  
• You will receive a letter in the mail from the Academic Advising & Registration Office. Your letter will contain information on your student username and password which enables you to log into your CCS e-mail account. Once you log into your CCS email you will be provided with an email from your Academic Advisor on how to log into the Blackboard site. On this site, you will receive more information about Registration, Orientation, and your English Placement. New students are required to log into Blackboard to complete the Fall 11 New Student Check-In and confirm your attendance for Welcome Week Orientation. New Students who have not taken the ACT English or the SAT Writing or who do not have English transfer credit, are also required to confirm that they will be taking an English Placement Exam. Instructions are provided.
• Attend CCS First Year Experience (Orientation) and English Placement (if applicable - students who have English transfer credit or who have been awarded AP credit are not required to take the EPE. Students who have taken the ACT English exam or the SAT Writing Exam also do not have to take the English Placement Exam).

Financial Aid

If you are interested in applying and you are a U.S. citizen, follow the instructions below:

Students Living On Campus

• Return all of the following housing paperwork: Housing application and $200 housing deposit, Resident Acknowledgement (signed), First Housing payment of $350, Medical History form and Medical Information form to the Office of Student Life. Housing assignments are made on a first come, first served basis for applicants with a complete housing file.
• Find a local doctor. It is important to do this now, as your housing application will be placed on the waitlist until this is complete. Call the phone number on the back of your health insurance card and ask for doctors who will be covered by your insurance in Detroit. Then choose and contact the doctor's office to complete the necessary paperwork. Again, it is important to do this with your housing paperwork so that you will be given student housing.
• Move in on your designated move in dates, provided by the Housing Office.