Advising

All first-year and sophomore mathematics and statistics majors, as well as joint majors, will be advised by the Undergraduate Program Administrator. Please contact them with any math or statistics advising questions. 

After your sophomore year, you will be assigned a faculty advisor, meaning a professor in our department. You can request that a particular faculty member be assigned to you by contacting our Undergraduate Program Administrator. Alternatively, a faculty advisor will be assigned to you. Faculty advisors can help you with things like choosing your upper-level elective courses, arranging for undergraduate research opportunities, applying for graduate school, thinking about career choices, etc. You can contact your faculty advisor either via email or by stopping by their office hours. Most faculty advisors maintain personal webpages that can be found easily via google and that list their email address and office hours. You can also find such information on this list of faculty advisors and their office hours.

If you are a sophomore or junior, you do not need an advising code to register for courses (unless you are part of another department/program, outside of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, that uses advising codes, in which case you should contact that department/program to get your code).

First year students and seniors do need an advising code in order to register for classes. First year students are all advised by our Undergraduate Program Administrator, and can reach out to them to get their code. Seniors should reach out to their Faculty Advisor to get their advising code; seniors only need an advising code for the semester just prior to when they plan to graduate. You can find your advisor’s name on your Student Link under Degree Advice; you can find their contact info and office hours here. If you are unsure who your advisor is or a faculty advisor has not yet been assigned to you, please contact our Undergraduate Program Administrator.

If you are completing a dual degree (ie one major in CAS and one in another BU school or college), a joint degree (eg in Mathematics and Computer Science), or a double major, you will be assigned a faculty advisor in each of the relevant departments. Faculty advisors are typically able to answer questions pertaining only to their specific department or program, so we recommend that you contact the appropriate advisor based on the topic of your question. Students minoring in mathematics or statistics will be assigned a faculty advisor in our department who can answer questions about the mathematics or statistics minor. 

CAS Advising can help you regarding general BU or CAS policies that are not specific to any particular department or program. For example, they can answer questions regarding the BU Hub, graduation requirements, and external credit and transfer course evaluations. You can contact CAS advising using this form.

It helps to keep in mind that advising in an active process; the more you put in yourself the more you get out of it. Try to come prepared to any advising meetings having thought in advance about your goals, interests, and priorities. Consider doing research on your own into any questions you may have in order to more efficiently use your time during your meeting. We will do our best to help you!

The answers to many advising questions can be found on our main FAQ page.