Parents & Family Weekend
Registration is now closed.
If you have already registered for Parents & Family Weekend, please visit the "Plan Your Trip" section of this website for important information about transportation and parking during Parents & Family Weekend. In addition, please note there is a new ban on all bags (including purses) in Michigan Stadium.
We are unable to accept any cancellations at this point. If you purchased tickets and are unable to attend Parents & Family Weekend, we recommend that you have your student pick up the tickets and then post them "for sale" on the Parents & Family Weekend Posting Board, located at the Michigan Union Pond Room on Friday, November 6 from 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
If you are looking to purchase additional tickets, please visit the Parents & Family Weekend Posting Board, located at the Michigan Union Pond Room on Friday, November 6 from 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Registration Process
Registration Deadline
Confirmation
Ticket Pick-up
Non-Refundable Registration Fee
Cancellations
No Order Changes
Football Ticket Information
Additional Information
NOTE: You must read all of the information on this page and on the Events page before proceeding to the online registration form. We cannot accept changes to your order once it has been submitted. Remember to order tickets for your U-M student too. All participants are required to have a ticket for all ticketed events.
Registration Process
Registration is now closed.
Registration Deadline
The registration deadline was Friday, October 9.
Confirmation
After you register online, you will see a confirmation page of your order. If you do not see this confirmation page of your order, your order was NOT completed and tickets have NOT been reserved for you. The Office of New Student Programs is not responsible for orders that were not completed correctly. Please print the electronic confirmation page for your records.
In addition to the electronic confirmation page, we will mail you a confirmation letter with information about check-in and parking, approximately 2 weeks after we have received your registration. The confirmation letter you receive in the mail serves as your official confirmation letter. If you do not receive a confirmation letter in the mail, please contact our office at (734) 764-6413.
Ticket Pick-up
For security and logistical reasons, tickets purchased through the Parents & Family Weekend registration form will not be sent through the mail. Tickets must be picked up at the Michigan Union on Friday, November 6 between 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. by either you or your student.
We strongly recommend that you check-in for Parents & Family Weekend on Friday so that you can participate in as many activities and events as possible. If you can’t come to the check-in, your student may check-in for you and can pick up your tickets by presenting his or her student ID.
In the event of an emergency if you, or your student, are unable to pick up your tickets on Friday, you may pick up your tickets at the pre-game tailgate on Saturday, November 7 at the Indoor Track Building. Tickets picked up on Saturday must be picked up no later than 90 minutes before kickoff. After that time, we will take football tickets to the Athletic Dept. Will Call window, located at Crisler Arena. All other tickets will be forfeited.
When ordering tickets, be sure to include your U-M student. We encourage you to attend events with your U-M student, and everyone attending ticketed events must have a ticket. Please be advised that if your student is performing at an event, you must have a ticket to attend that event and watch your student.
Non-Refundable Registration Fee
There is a $45 non-refundable registration fee. Parents & Family Weekend is a self-funded event. Your registration fee covers the cost of overhead expenses, including publications, postage, registration materials, staff, building and room rentals, and equipment rentals, and the non-ticketed events and activities offered during the weekend. Event fees are kept to a minimum; the weekend is designed to cover its costs. You will receive a $10 discount on your registration fee if you order tickets to two or more different events on the Parents & Family Weekend online registration form. This discount does not apply to tickets purchased directly through other organizations and ticket vendors.
Cancellations
If you wish to cancel your entire Parents & Family Weekend registration, we must receive written confirmation of all cancellations by Friday, October 9, 2009. Those families who cancel before Friday, October 9 will receive a refund for tickets purchased through the Parents & Family Weekend registration form, less the non-refundable registration fee, 2-3 weeks after the request is received. Refunds will not be issued after October 9 for ANY reason. Cancellation requests can be made by mail, e-mail or fax. Cancellation requests cannot be made by phone. Cancellation requests can be mailed to: ONSP, 1100 LSA Building, 500 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382. Requests can be emailed to parents.weekend@umich.edu, or faxed to (734) 764-6291.
Note: Cancellations for tickets purchased directly through ticket vendors or organizations (designated with this icon in the Events page 
) and not purchased through the Parents & Family Weekend online registration form cannot be refunded by the Office of New Student Programs. Contact the individual organizations regarding their refund policy for the following events: Red Dress Gala, Men's Hockey Game, Hillel Dinner, and Planetarium Shows.
No Order Changes
Once you have submitted your order, we are unable to accommodate changes. Please be sure to carefully read through the Events page of the website prior to registering for Parents & Family Weekend, so that you know which events you wish to purchase tickets for. Everyone attending a ticketed event must have a ticket, so be sure to purchase a ticket for your U-M student as well.
At the Parents & Family Weekend check-in location, there will be a posting board for families wishing to buy or sell tickets. We encourage you to use this posting board if you wish to purchase or sell any of your Parents & Family Weekend tickets. In addition, if there are tickets remaining to any events, we will sell them at the Parents & Family Weekend check-in location. However, most events typically sell out, so please do not plan on being able to purchase tickets at the last minute.
We strongly encourage you to carefully review the Events page prior to your initial registration. In addition, when ordering your tickets initially, be sure to include your U-M student. We encourage you to attend events with your U-M student, and everyone attending ticketed events must have a ticket.
Football Ticket Information
If you are requesting football tickets, and only wish to attend Parents & Family Weekend if football tickets are available, do NOT make travel arrangements prior to receiving a Parents & Family Weekend confirmation letter in the mail. The University will not be responsible for the costs of travel arrangements made prior to the receipt of your confirmation letter.
Traditionally, the football tickets reserved for Parents & Family Weekend have sold out. For this reason, and because we believe our program presents families with a unique opportunity to explore the entire University, we strongly encourage you to purchase tickets for other Parents & Family Weekend ticketed events, so that you can participate fully in the Parents & Family Weekend experience. Football tickets ordered through the Parents & Family Weekend registration form are a part of the complete Parents & Family Weekend program. As a result, you will be charged the non-refundable registration fee which covers the additional costs of the program, including overhead expenses and the non-ticketed activities offered during the weekend.
We have a limited quantity of football tickets and can only offer four tickets per family. Though it has over 100,000 seats, Michigan Stadium routinely sells out. This ticket shortage affects the entire University of Michigan community, not just families. In the event that we have not sold out of football tickets by October 9, additional tickets will be available. Information will be posted on this website if this happens. [Please note: the Parents & Family Weekend brochure that was mailed to families of freshmen incorrectly listed only 2 football tickets would be available. This was an error. Families will be allowed 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.]
Football tickets purchased through the Parents & Family Weekend program are not in the stadium’s student section. As a result, if your son or daughter has student section season football tickets, you will not be seated with him or her during the football game. We realize that this is unfortunate, but it is a necessary consequence of the logistics of the Big House.
If you need more than four tickets per family, or you only wish to attend the football game and do not wish to participate in other Parents & Family Weekend activities, you should contact the Athletic Ticket Department regarding ticket availability at mgoblue.com.
Additional Information
If you have questions, please contact us via e-mail at parents.weekend@umich.edu, or call (734) 764-6413 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. EDT.