About Your Advisors

Your Academic Advising Director is a PhD-level, full-time professional UAR advisor whose office is in your residential complex. Academic Advising Directors focus on the students in their residence and can assist with both routine and complex matters pertaining to academic requirements and policies, course selection and sequencing, investigating majors, research, fellowships, and post-graduate study.

UAR Academic Advisors are located on the first floor of Sweet Hall and are are available during daily drop-in hours for quick ten-minute questions. Drop-in advising hours are Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Advising is also available by appointment. Sweet Hall Advisors provide specialized advice regarding research, fellowships, and pre-professional interests (e.g., pre-business, pre-education, pre-health, pre-law).

Varsity athletes are served by UAR advisors whose offices are in the Athletic Academic Resource Center (AARC) located in the Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation. The Academic Advisors for Student-Athletes are uniquely qualified and trained to evaluate student-athletes’ academic eligibility requirements as well as to help student-athletes balance their time commitments so that they can meet both their academic and athletic goals.

The relationships you form with your professors, advisors and mentors will shape your undergraduate experience and influence you in ways that will last a lifetime. A hallmark of undergraduate education at Stanford is the opportunity to work closely with faculty (renowned scholars in their fields) who are actively engaged in research.

Each new freshman and transfer student is assigned a Pre-Major Advisor (PMA), a Stanford faculty or staff member who volunteers to advise a small cohort of students from the time they first arrive until they declare a major. Your PMA is a mentor who can help you navigate your Stanford journey.