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Nathans says she doubts that a formal peer advising system for first-years could ever be created because students cannot see other students' records. She says that an advisor's access to those records are central to good advising...
...prefect program website notes that "While proctors shoulder the responsibility of formal academic advising and personal counseling, prefects can help direct first-years to other College resources, like peer counseling groups or department offices...
...some close to the prefect program wonder whether more formal responsibility on behalf of the prefects for academic advising would really benefit all those involved...
Nathans will continue to explore options for improving first year advising, options that will likely not include a formal peer-advising program...
...prefects specifically do not do formal academic advising," she notes. "The most involved and most successful of the prefects indeed are critically-important advisers as well as role models and friends to students in the entries to which they're assigned...