Advice on Advising
Faculty analysts compared the results of the 1997 and 1999 senior surveys, in which departing students were asked, among other things, to assess the quality of their department's advising.
The results varied greatly between concentrations, but in general, the high scorers tended to be the committees for degrees (which use Faculty from departments) and the smallest departments (which can hire their own Faculty).
Humanities departments received higher rankings. The hard sciences ranked in the middle, and social sciences like economics ranked near the bottom.
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Besides the low student-to-faculty ratio in the honors-only concentration, juniors and seniors have one-on-one tutorials.
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