<p>Any insight into which is generally chosen more often/frequently by students? Any particular feedback to each/any of the advising options? Any advantages that some have over the others.. i was thinking about CAP</p>
<p>Look at [this</a> thread](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/703076-advising-class-registration-questions.html]this”>Advising class/registration questions - Tufts University - College Confidential Forums).</p>
<p>thanks 10char</p>
<p>hmm quick add on to this – there seems to be an excessive amount of humanities/cultural types of advising classes and a huge dearth of science-oriented/related advising classes. I kind of want to try calc 3 – but feel like it’d be too advanced for me, seeing how i just only completed calc AB as a senior in high school…math is one of my best subjects, but just in terms of material-wise i feel like i would be behind those who take Calc 3 but have already taken calc BC… is the calc 2 class more along the lines of what would be covered in a BC class, or do you think i would be able to manage in calc 3 without having taken BC and still not be behind the curve</p>
<p>Seeing as Calc AB gives you credit for Calc 1 and Calc BC gives you credit for 1 and 2, I think Calc AB is probably roughly equivalent to Calc 2. If you have any interest in majoring in something that has calc 2 as a requirement, you need to take that. If you have a good grasp of integrals, though, I would say you can probably manage calc 3 (I don’t know where AB/1 ends and BC/2 starts). Calc 3 is multivariable, and is thus mostly just an expanded view differentiation and integration (partial derivatives, double/triple integrals). I don’t think you really need to know the more advanced BC stuff like power series.
So, while you may be able to handle it, I don’t see any reason to skip calc 2.</p>
<p>right i see - i don’t want to skip calc 2 - that would be silly… i was trying to find an advising course that i could take that i was interested in, without having to do host. i just wish they didnt skip over calc 2, or offered something more along my science/bio interests</p>
<p>ah sorry - just reread the calc III descript and came across: “Please note: this course is the third in Tufts standard three-semester calculus sequence. Only students with significant calculus preparation (and/or an AP score of 5 on the Calculus BC exam) should consider this course.” – i guess that counts me out</p>
<p>is host okay? i feel like im not going to be close with my advisor which will hurt me in the long run…</p>
<p>Your adviser is not necessarily going to be very relevant at all to your future academic planning. I did the non-class advising option (assigned a random adviser), and he ended up being in the sciences. He also ended up knowing next to nothing about advising for anything outside of his department (also he was so engaged in a research project at the time that he didn’t really meet with all of us that much). Especially if you are interested in the sciences, I would not worry too much about the freshmen year adviser. </p>
<p>Instead I found professors that taught introductory courses in the science field I was interested in and talked to them. That helped to sort out coursework and things like that. You may get a great humanities adviser, but often times they will still forward you to a science department friend of theirs for consultation on science classes. Most of the time, unfortunately, faculty in the humanities and sciences don’t know they both exist though.</p>
<p>ah okay, so what is this advising really for then, if its not necessarily going to be relevant to my future academic planning? (sorry im really confused and stressing over this probably too much). – would it be smart to take CAP Calc 1 and just get an A in it to bring up my gpa? or is that not smart/waste of time? – also was thinking about intro to comm. health – would that be a good one for a pre-med route?</p>
<p>do pre-meds ever get a pre-med advisor? i know they do at other schools. if so, when?</p>
<p>Yep, there’s pre-med advising. Carol Baffi-Dugan is the pre-health adviser, and Shirley Smith, associate director of the pre-health program, is also available for questions.<br>
<a href=“mailto:carol.baffi-dugan@tufts.edu”>carol.baffi-dugan@tufts.edu</a>
<a href=“mailto:shirley.smith@tufts.edu”>shirley.smith@tufts.edu</a></p>
<p>Pre-major advising is a little pointless. You don’t really need to be close to your pre-major adviser, but if you want to be, you wouldn’t need to be in a class to do, you’d just need to spend time with your adviser in office hours.
guildsman is right, just take intro classes in fields that interest you and seek out your professors from those classes. They’ll be glad to help you, and its more important that you build a relationship with them (you will probably choose one of them to be your real adviser in your sophomore year) than it is to have a relationship with a random professor of staff member from a random department.<br>
Of course, if there’s a CAP class being offered that’s relevant to what you want to do, there’s no particular reason not to take it. Community health is probably a good idea. It’s more social science than it is hard science, but its important for potential doctors to develop a working knowledge of the social framework within which disease occurs.</p>
<p>thank you! that certainly clears it up a lot you two… i think im going to go with comm health as my 1st choice, and host 2nd – but do u think it’d be wise to retake calc 1 for an “easy A” or not bother.</p>
<p>That’s really up to you. The only thing you’d lose by doing it is the opportunity to take a different course.</p>
<p>BTW, I second taking community health 1 and 2. Even if you don’t pursue the second major in Community health, those courses offer extremely important perspectives on healthcare. CH 1 is about public health, health issues, framing healthcare concerns, etc. CH 2 is about the healthcare system and policy - the class changed my perspectives on healthcare completely.</p>
<p>Someone told me that the advising classes are .5 of a credit, does this include the “real classes” like cal 3 (which was mentioned before)? They also told me that the classes were “easier” does this include the math and science classes?</p>
<p>Does the host advising program also offer .5 of a credit even though it’s not a class?</p>
<p>No credit for host advising. Advising classes vary - some are half credit, some are full, some are pass/fail, some are letter-graded. You’d have to look at the particular class. “Real” classes, like calc 3, intro to community health, intro to philosophy - classes that are typically available for all students but have had a few sections set aside for freshmen - will usually be full credit, letter-graded.</p>
<p>is it possible to transfer out of/drop your advising class? its so stupid that if we don’t want to do an advising class we still might get one.</p>
<p>^^ vouch, good question</p>
<p>Yeah, you can drop it</p>
<p>cool!</p>
<p>thanks.</p>