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Harvard students have long complained about the College's poor advisory system, but an initiative by the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) and departmental head tutors may help combat this sentiment...
According to Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, the FDO, head tutors and departmental undergraduate coordinators are trying to aid first-years who feel uncomfortable choosing concentrations and courses...
...more extensive advising is part of a larger effort by academic departments and the FDO to provide options to first-years earlier...
...adds to it. In the houses, tutors who are involved with the school and specific departments, but who are at the same time concerned with me are a welcome change. Suddenly a well-informed advisor--what a novelty! Part of the problem, according to the FDO, is that many well-qualified applicants are lost to the houses. The selection process for proctors takes much longer than that for tutors and many people apply to both and, hearing from the houses first, accept a tutoring position...
...FDO doesn't have an easy job in finding proctors and is maybe doing the best it can. But if proctors had to have attended Harvard for their undergraduate education or have had more experience working in the school they could be more of a resource. The FDO should do all it can to find the right people for the job. In the meantime first-years can only hang in there and take all the wrong courses and get terribly lost and then join the sophomore rush for "Change of Concentration" forms next fall...