<p>I'm going to be taking classes this summer at SBCC, and would like to talk to a UCSB counselor beforehand. I'm in EOP and e-mailed them, asking if I could schedule an appt. but never heard back from them. Do we get "assigned" counselors? How should I go about this? I wouldn't know where to find information...
(I'm in the College of Engineering, if that matters...and I'll be a freshman this fall).</p>
<p>Evening Imgoing2college,</p>
<p>Note that my answer is from my own experience and thought.</p>
<p>As UCSB works off the quarter system and summer courses are offered to all students, meeting a counselor or getting advice as to what classes you should take would be the same as it is for any other semester, contacting and speaking with the counselor of your major.</p>
<p>So for myself I should meet and speak with the Psychology advisor in the College of Letters and Science and you should meet with your major advisor in the College of Engineering.</p>
<p>Naturally, transition into any university is accompanied by an orientation session where many ins and outs are explained in terms of course planning and selection. And since we’re going to summer session, orientation starts after the beginning of class.</p>
<p>What I would do personally is to e-mail the academic advisor for your major of your school and ask them for guidance as an incoming freshman to your major. What classes to consider and take if possible.</p>
<p>As a freshman most of your initial coursework will involve a liberal-arts education but as always there are some classes where you can potentially “double-dip”. Transfer students are a little more compacted as to what they can and should take as they are jumping into their major now head first.</p>
<p>In the end, the academic advisor in your major is the person you will go to repeatedly throughout your college career to check up on the courses your taking, what you should take, what you need to focus on, etc etc. Thus that would be the individual I’d track down to speak with.</p>
<p>Thanks, Arckeya. You said, “What I would do personally is to e-mail the academic advisor for your major of your school and ask them for guidance as an incoming freshman to your major. What classes to consider and take if possible.”</p>
<p>Where can I find this contact info?</p>
<p>I got to here:
[UCSB</a> College of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/prospective_undergraduates/advising_and_student_services]UCSB”>http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/prospective_undergraduates/advising_and_student_services)</p>
<p>But I can’t find actual e-mail addresses. (My major is Comp Sci). Anyone in this major know who the counselor is?</p>
<p>try this page: [UCSB</a> College of Engineering - contacts](<a href=“http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/current_undergraduates/contact_info/]UCSB”>http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/current_undergraduates/contact_info/) </p>
<p>I got to it from this page - <a href=“http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/current_undergraduates/[/url]”>http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/current_undergraduates/</a></p>
<p>Thanks mike. I wonder which one is my advisor…?</p>
<p>Should I just e-mail all 3 or choose one and hope it’s mine?</p>
<p>if you email all three you would probably get a faster response. if you email one and it turns out it’s not your adviser, they’d just forward it to the person that is which may take a bit longer</p>
<p>^Good point. I’ll do that. Thanks everyone!</p>