Step 6: Looking Forward to Fall!

Congratulations, you are officially a Gallatin student! The Gallatin community is eager to welcome you. Here are a few ways to get started:

Connect with other Gallatin students

• Video chat with Orientation Captains
• Join the Gallatin Class of 2017 Facebook group
  

Developing a Relationship with Your Gallatin Advisers

The Gallatin School places a great deal of importance on advising. The degree of self-direction and autonomy that Gallatin offers can often be challenging as well as liberating. For this reason, Gallatin's layered advising system ensures that students have the opportunity to make meaningful connections with academic advisers and other faculty members.

All Gallatin students have at least two assigned advisers: a primary faculty adviser, who serves as an intellectual mentor to guide students as they navigate disciplines and departments in forging interdisciplinary concentrations; and a Class Adviser (Rahul Hamid for first-year students, Gail Drakes for sophomores, Matthew Gregory for juniors, Meredith Theeman for seniors) who provides support to a cohort of students, fostering a sense of community among students as they pursue individualized programs of study.

Tips on communicating with your Primary Faculty Adviser

At the beginning of the Fall semester, you will be given a Primary Faculty Adviser.  Once you recieve this information you should immediately email your adviser to introduce yourself and to set up an advising meeting.  Here are a few tips to keep in mind when communicating with faculty. In your first advising meeting of the fall semester, you should plan on discussing the following:

• Why you chose Gallatin.  Fill your adviser in on your previous academic coursework and explain why Gallatin suits your academic goals.
• Your timeline to graduation. If you plan to take summer courses or post AP credits, let your adviser know.  If your adviser doesn’t understand your timeline, he or she cannot help you meet important benchmark goals like the completion of your Intellectual Autobiography and Plan for Concentration or your Senior Colloquium.
  
• What fall courses are you taking and what you hope to get out of these courses. You registered for your current courses prior to meeting your primary faculty adviser, so it is important to fill your adviser in on your decision making process and how these courses fit into your larger plan for your concentration.
• Your plans to register for internship or private lesson credit.  Your adviser must approve your plans to receive internship or private lesson credit, so be sure to bring this up ASAP.
• Your plans to study abroad. It is important for your adviser to know if and when you plan to be away from the Washington Square campus so he or she can offer advice and effectively plan on how to support you while you are away.
• Ask your adviser about their interests. An advising relationship is a two-way street. It is important to demonstrate an interest in your adviser’s academic and/or professional interests so that you can better understand how your adviser can support you and so that you can build an overall stronger relationship.

If for any reason you feel that your primary adviser is not the right adviser for you, please feel free to reach out to your class adviser for assistance. Students are able to change primary faculty advisers if they feel that they would work better with another faculty member.

If you have questions about advising, please visit the Office of Advising website or email questions to:  advising.gallatin@nyu.edu

Become Familiar with NYU Student Policies

• Explore the NYU policies that govern Student Standards.
• Read about the NYU Policy on Student Conduct.
• Read about Gallatin's policies regarding Academic Integrity.
• Not sure what constitutes plagiarism?  Take this Quiz to find out.

Get a Head Start

It's never too soon to join the Class of 2017 Wasserman Center for Career Development listserv so that you can begin receiving information about iinternship and job opportunities:

To subscribe to the listserv, activate your NYU email and send a blank email message from your NYU address to:  Join-Career-2017@lists.nyu.edu

Welcome Week, 
August 25-30, 2013

NYU Welcomes You


Kimmel Center for University Life

60 Washington Square South

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Orientation

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts

Date & Time - TBA

Convocation

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts

Date & Time - TBA

The Gallatin Welcome Back Party

Location, Date & Time - TBA

Can't wait for Welcome Week? 

• Take a Virtual Tour of NYU
• Check out what University Life is life at NYU
• Take a look at NYU's Student Resources
• Discover more about the various Events and Traditions at NYU
• Learn more about scenic Washington Square Park and the NYU environs
• Visit the official website of New York City

Questions?

While your registration adviser will not be available to answer questions over the summer, there are plenty of other members of the Gallatin community who are here to help!

• Academics? Email Gallatin's Office of Advising at advising.gallatin@nyu.edu.
• Student activities? Email Gallatin's Office of Student Life at gallatin.studentlife@nyu.edu.
• Housing and health? Email Assistant Director of Student Affairs Nancy Harris.