The presence of faculty during the initial orientation is of greta important to most students. A brief contact with faculty could go long ways with the future students. Actually, that can be the convincing factor in getting the individual to accept it's new reality as an "student".
Unfortunately, in our industry (for-profit) only a selected group of faculty is ever present during orientation. Mainly the administration and departments chairs are the main event performers at orientations. Various entities used different aprroaches to the handling of students and the information distributed during orientation. Is this type of operation help out students with acclimatization? Most certainly the answer is "NO". Sometimes a brief tour of the campus and departments does not arouse the curiousity of the future students.
But what about the interaction with instructors baking some cookies and letting the future student take there product home. Now, that is awakening to a major experience. In conclusion involvement needs to be at a deeper level than just tour the facilities.