<p>so i was looking at the form and it said that your choices are not ranked in the FAS lottery, so you're equally likely to get all of the ones you list. i'm sure i want to do a seminar instead of traditional advising, and there are one or two that i think i would LOVE and am really interested in, and then three or four others that sound interesting but not as much as the others. i know space is limited, so would it be better to list only one or two and hope i get one of them, or list 4 or 5 and hope i get put in my top choices?</p>
<p>also, does anyone know if the iHouse seminar is just for people living in iHouse, or if anyone can do it?</p>
<p>The iHouse seminar is not only for iHouse residents.</p>
<p>As for your other question, I would go with the statement that says, “If you list a seminar, it is assumed that you are seriously interested in it.” </p>
<p>You could list the semi-interesting seminars if you know you’d much rather be in any of the 4 or 5 than in traditional. Granted, listing more seminars might of course reduce your chances of getting into the ones you’re truly interested in, if those end up not being over-enrolled.</p>
<p>Frankly, I’m confused how they can consider your choices completely unranked. If multiple seminars are open when they come down to your name, do they just choose one for you at random?</p>
<p>thanks! </p>
<p>that’s what i thought about the iHouse one and it didn’t say anything, but i just wanted to make sure :)</p>
<p>bahhhh that’s what i figured.</p>
<p>are freshman advising seminars two semesters long?
and what do students who pick FAS do for advising after freshman year?</p>
<p>thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Advising seminars meet only during fall semester, but advisors meet with their advisees all year (obviously), and the advisors sometimes organize outings and dinners for their advisees even after the official seminar is over.</p>
<p>After freshman year, students who pick advising seminars do what everyone else does – they are assigned a faculty advisor in their chosen major department.</p>
<p>Oh, so the seminars are only freshman year. I heard stories of seniors being in the same seminars as freshmen.
So the adviser frosh year is different than the adviser sophomore-senior year?</p>
<p>The stories you’ve heard might be referring to Associate Advisors (AAs), upperclassmen who aid both traditional and FAS advisors. In the case of FAS, these AAs attend the seminar with their freshmen advisees.</p>
<p>As an AA, your advisor is not the person you’re aiding. Once you’ve declared a major (i.e., from sophomore year onward), your advisor is a faculty member in your major department. I don’t know if such a situation is specifically avoided, but if your freshman advisor is in the department you later declare, you might end up with the same advisor for all four years.</p>
<p>As for “seminars” themselves, these exist for upperclassmen, too. They simply aren’t ADVISING seminars anymore.</p>