<p>How do you contact your freshman advisor before course selection? Do you use email ?</p>
<p>I don't think you'll be given an advisor until you come to Tufts, and you register for classes during Orientation with the help of both the professor advisor and 2 upperclassmen Orientation Leaders.</p>
<p>On the contrary, you'll fill out a form for freshman advising and recieve information on it in August, I believe it was, and they'll tell you your advisor's name and email address. You'll have to rank your choices of Explorations, Perspectives, CAP courses, and Host Advising. Then they'll assign you one of your choices and let you know. I got my first pick.</p>
<p>oh, interesting! We def. got the information for our Orientation Leaders and their contact info during the summer, but I don't think we were assigned faculty advisers until later. I guess they changed it? Sorry for the misinformation - so it looks like you can start pestering them with questions before you set foot on campus :-D</p>
<p>How do select your freshman courses without advising in the summer? I thought you need to enroll courses during August, right?</p>
<p>LOL, I hope I'm right about this at least: you register for courses when you're on campus, during Orientation, after sitting through a little demonstration on how to register and with the help and advice of your advisors.</p>
<p>That is also what I read on the website.</p>
<p>Its very confused that Tufts has six advising programs for first-year students. Which one is the best one for Premed track students? Can you choose more than one advising program?</p>
<p>uml1958 - You can only pick one advising program. I don't think there's one in particular that's better for a premed student, but maybe you could pick a program that has a science-focused class or research opportunity. You can always change your advisor when you officially declare a major.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there is something to be said for an advising program that is just fun and has nothing to do with your intended major. I was in the Perspectives program, and we focused on the films of Stanley Kubrick, and it was a blast hanging out with 11 other freshman and 2 upperclassmen and not having to worry about how it counted towards my major. You have plenty of time and available credits to take courses unrelated to your major.</p>
<p>If you really don't want to take any of the classes they offer through the advising program, I would suggest you go for host advising, which is just assigning you an advisor at random.</p>
<p>True, you can only pick one advising option, but there are multiple layers of advising at Tufts.</p>
<p>For instance, there is an additional advising program for pre-health students on top of the advising you are selecting when you choose between one of the 6 different types of first-year advising options. I wouldn't worry a great deal about finding a particular program that is 'better' for pre-med students, since you have the pre-health advisers to help with pre-med stuff. (And you should take advantage of that opportunity as soon as possible when you arrive).</p>
<p>so apparently the advising form has gone up on the website and is due June 15th</p>
<p>the only reason any students know about this fast approaching deadline is because some students have been poking around the website</p>
<p>i didn't even know a specific website for the classof 2012 exsisted</p>
<p>are we going to get e-mails or letters about this???</p>
<p>also is advising first comefirst serve......if you turn in the sheet on june 15th weill you not get your first choice?</p>