Transfer Advising
What to do when you feel lost
Soon you will feel settled into your new home away from home. But in the beginning, it can sometimes be hard to get your bearings. You have faculty, staff, and peers on campus eager to advise you.
Transfer students at BU are generally assigned academic advisors in the same ways as incoming first-year students. Visit the Find The Right Advisor page to learn more about your school/college’s process. But if you’re having trouble figuring out who your advisor is, or how to connect with them, each school or college has a contact person for transfer students who can point you in the right direction.
You may find the Transfer Roadmap a helpful planning tool. You can use it to start thinking about what you want to do with your time at BU, and you can have it with you when you meet with your advisor.
Academic Advising Contacts for New Transfer Students
CAS
CAS Advising (casadv@bu.edu)
In addition to your academic advisor within your department, you are always welcome to reach out to CAS Advising (casadv@bu.edu).
CDS
CDS Advising (cds-advising@bu.edu)
CFA
Brendan Hoey (brendan2@bu.edu) in Student Services
CGS
Alyse Bithavas (bithavas@bu.edu) in Student Services and Academic Advising
COM
Annie O’Connell (aehickey@bu.edu) in COM Undergraduate Affairs
Abby Bodnar (abodnar@bu.edu) in COM Undergraduate Affairs
Kevin McPherson (kmcph@bu.edu) in COM Undergraduate Affairs
ENG
Carmel Barrau (barrau@bu.edu) in the Undergraduate Programs Office
Pardee
Sophia Gish (sgish@bu.edu) in Student Affairs and Services for students whose last names start with A-Gi
Alethea Cono (acono@bu.edu) in Student Affairs and Services for students whose last names start with Gj-Pa
Lauren Thams (lthams@bu.edu) in Student Affairs and Services for students whose last names start with Pb-Z
Questrom
Deanna Baker (drbaker@bu.edu) in the Undergraduate Development Center (UDC)
Sargent
Erin Phair (ekp@bu.edu) in the Academic Services Center
SHA
SHA Advising (shaadv@bu.edu)
Wheelock
Liz Vassallo (vassallo@bu.edu) in Student Services
Transfer Roadmap
You can use the Transfer Roadmap to start planning out your undergraduate experience at BU. Your experience will of course include your classes, but it will also include the things you decide to do outside the classroom—activities, international experiences, internships or work, and more.
Use the front side of the Transfer Roadmap to plan the courses you will take. This will be a work in progress!
Use the back side of the Transfer Roadmap to envision how you will round out your BU experience. What activities do you want to try? Who do you want to meet? What would you like to do in the city of Boston? Abroad?
Discuss your Transfer Roadmap with your advisor as you develop it. Together you can think through how the different elements of your BU experience are fitting together, and what you are learning along the way.
Finally, remember that maps can be helpful, but only if you are willing to redraw them as you learn more about yourself and the world around you.
