Advising All students, upon matriculating, are assigned to an academic advisor who guides each student in all academic matters. For freshmen, this would include the initial selection of courses and general assistance in adapting to the Cornell undergraduate environment. Courses are selected on the basis of a student's background preparation and stated interests and are subject to change if advanced placement credits have been earned or if students wish to register in different classes.
Students are free to change advisor, for any reason, during their degree.
This might be occasioned by newly emerging interests on the part of a student that could be better served by another advisor, or the result of special rapport developing between the student and another advisor. Transfer students are especially dependent upon the advising resources as they have less time to complete graduation requirements at Cornell. The equivalence of courses transferred from other colleges to those offered here is not always clear which may complicate choices in completing prerequisite sequences, as required for application to professional graduate programs. Cornell students contemplating changing their college of admission, or changing to Animal Sciences from other programs within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, should seek advice as early as possible. General enquiries about the Animal Sciences undergraduate program or advising matters should be directed to either of these individuals.