<p>*** tufts? having to write more essays in order to choose our advising program!!!</p>
<p>What? I don’t remember writing more essays to choose an advising program.</p>
<p>yeah, we do. such generic questions too. by the way i said double-you-tee-eff in my other post and it got censored for some reason.</p>
<p>Academic advising is the most beneficial when your advisor has a chance to know you as a whole person. Please help your advisor get started before you meet in person by providing brief answers to these questions. (Length is limited to the size of the text box.)</p>
<p>1.)Please briefly describe one thing you are passionate about.</p>
<p>2.)Students contribute to the Tufts community through unique perspectives. How do you think your background has informed your perspective?</p>
<p>3.)If you could pursue any creative project free from financial, time, or other constraints, what would you do?</p>
<p>4.)What kinds of co-curricular and/or employment opportunities are you considering being involved in during your first year at Tufts?</p>
<p>5.)Selected essays from your Tufts application will also be given to your advisor.</p>
<p>Oh yup, I remember those. Don’t sweat them, they’re not evaluating you for any kind of grade, they’re just honestly so your adviser can get a handle on what sorts of things you’d be interested in. S/he can’t know what sort of advice to give you if s/he doesn’t know any of your goals or interests.</p>
<p>they seem kind of dumb though. why not just give them our essays. im so burned out at this point i will probably just write sarcastic answers to all of them.</p>
<p>one thing im passionate about? stereotypical college essay topic anyone?</p>
<p>Except don’t you only have like three or four sentences worth of space to write in?</p>
<p>probably a little closer to a paragraph, but yeah.</p>
<p>does anyone know if we’re more likely to get our first choice in advising program if we submit it early (is it first come first serve or random)?</p>
<p>I think one of the coordinaters on one of the Facebook groups for incoming students said it wasn’t by first-come first-serve but that they tried to give everyone their top choices and that it was very likely you would get one of your top 8 even if it wasn’t your top choice. But I don’t remember how accurate that was…</p>
<p>this is rough bc only a few of all the advising options actually appealed to me… (like 3, including host…) … what if i dont get one of these 3?</p>
<p>yeah i only want host. If i get into one of those stupid classes can i just opt out…</p>
<p>is there a benefit to taking an advising program like CAP that’s graded and a full course that already fulfills a distribution requirement, rather than a half course pass/fail course like Faculty seminar? and is it better to take a program taught by professors so they get to know you better, rather than one taught by students or does it not matter?</p>
<p>Well the benefit, as you said, is that it fulfills a distribution requirement, and if you do well in it your GPA will improve. I would say it’s better to take one taught by a professor, but that’s just personal opinion.</p>
<p>^ vouch, why would you want one student run?</p>