2011 recruitment bits and pieces

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

Much better article.

What is "pre-major"? Is that the new PC term for "undeclared"?

Pre-major is an undeclared major usually within a defined college or program. Someone could be pre-major health professions or pre-major College of Communications if they were accepted into that college but had not selected a specific program.

Schools do this because students change their majors a lot the first two years, and a lot of majors within a college might have the same course requirements at least for the freshman year. The college can have a counselor advise freshmen and then parcel them out to advising by faculty once they have a better idea of what they want to do.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by HQWest

The college can have a counselor advise freshmen and then parcel them out to advising by faculty once they have a better idea of what they want to do.

This seems like a great advising model.

Students usually end up with an adviser-change with each major-change. Depending on the number of changes a student goes through, that could lead to seriously inconsistent and, at times, non-existent advising. With the system you've described, students receive consistent counseling with smooth transitions between the two advisers.

/random advising tangent