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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why didn't you ask for more details? That would have been my first instinct. You too?[/quote]

I didn't ask for more details because:

1) We were in a big group and my asking for more details would have derailed the tour. I didn't want to be THAT person.

2) I thought it would have been the one and only time I would have heard it. I would not have thought about it more if I didn't hear about it again. But as said, I've seen it mentioned enough times here at DCUM that I thought I'd ask for details here.

Since that tour, we do make it a point to ask about advising, which would include-  are professors helpful in helping you select your classes, explore your interests, help you select a major, help with setting up internships,  job connections etc.    
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Professor here…this isn’t quite right. Some schools assign professors as advisors and others have professional advisors (people who only do advising).  Some schools assign an informal faculty advisor or encourage faculty mentors while sending kids to professional assigned advisors (this is what we do where I work….I happily give advice but send them to their assigned advisor to look at credits and pre reqs and technical things). As for Internships and jobs that’s a totally different thing: you’d want to ask about if internships are required or encouraged, what the career services support is, and if there’s any departmental support for career prep. Putting this all on professors is not an accurate way to look at it: we’re engaged and happy to help but none of these things are our specialty really (unless it’s a branch of our course portfolio or research interest…in my case one of these areas is but that’s not true for any of my colleagues).  [/quote]

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