<p>I would love to get advice/suggestions from current Tufts students or alumni on the various freshman advising choices. Any comments on the option you chose and how it worked out or what you have heard from your friends would be very helpful. </p>
<p>Also your general impressions on how helpful the program was in smoothing your transition from high school to Tufts. If you choose an option lead by upperclass students rather than a professor (Explorations and Perspectives) did you feel that it was worthwhile? Did you feel that this interaction with upperclass students was a real benefit or did their lack of teaching experience hinder the class? If you chose one of those upperclass led options did you feel you didn't get enough direct contact and advise from the faculty advisor as you would like?</p>
<p>For those admitted students who haven't looked into the advising options you can find a description of each at the Tufts site listed below:</p>
<p>I think that it's too early to think about this at this point. Later in the summer (June if I recall) we (incoming students) will get access to a website as well as something in the mail that will show all of the subdivisions within the different advising categories (only the categories are on the website that lfrieden mentioned) and that will make it far easier to see what it is that interests you, etc. I've heard good things about some advising options from friends of mine and bad things from others. I think that it really depends on the person: do you want more advising or limited advising? How much contact do you want to have with your advisor? Answers to these and other questions should help determine whether you should go for something with minimal advising like Host Advising or something more substantial like CAP.</p>
<p>I liked my Perspectives group, it was good to get an upperclassman perspective on the school, and to get class recommendations and other sage advice.</p>
<p>My son did Perspectives. He thought it was fun but really just a waste of time. If he did it all over again he would have done curricular advising.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm reading through this and thinking how on top of it you all seem compared to me... I guess I've been too busy graduating! (it is seriously a week long event at my school) But now that thats over I can't wait to look into what you guys are talking about...</p>
<p>I did host but dont think it makes much of a difference. I was too overwhelmed to choose my first COLLEGE class (!!!) during the summer so I opted for host (which is just having a regular advisor and no class to go with it). My roomie did perspectives and complained every wednesday that she would rather be anywhere but in a 3 hour boring class. If you find any of the themes for the classes interesting, go for it. Other than that, makes little difference. What's really important is your advisor for your major, but you won't get that advisor until later.</p>
<p>I would recommend choosing the CAP course if it is a class that is interesting, or host advising. I would not recommend Perspectives or Explorations, simply because they're not "real" classes (and can take up a lot of time, from what I hear). The way I look at it, you're not paying $40,000 to be taught by people your own age. I took a CAP course that fulfilled two requirements; I'd recommend thinking ahead about the (many) requirements you have to fulfill and going about it that way.</p>