College of Liberal Arts & SciencesUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

LAS 199: Transfer Advantage (Week 2)

Ruth HoffmanAssistant Dean

Cory OhmsAssociate Director of New Student Advising

What don’t you know about LAS?

We’re here to help!

Quick Facts:• Founded in 1913

• 11,287 students (Largest Undergrad college)

• Most diverse college on campus

• Over 154,000 alumni (eight Nobel Laureates and six Pulitzer Prize winners).

• Over 60 majors

What is the College of LAS?

Before you get like this…

Who should you talk to?

LAS

2002 Lincoln Hall

Department Advisors

Faculty Members

Specialty Advising

(Pre-Law, Pre-Med, Sec Ed,

etc)

Advising on our campus…

LAS Student Academic Affairs Office

Where is it?• 2002 Lincoln Hall• Go up the white marble steps by:

What kinds of things do we do?• Walk-in advisors/deans• Change of majors, Adding majors/minors• Late course adds• Withdrawals/Cancellations• Petitions – grade replacement, late course drops, retro-

withdrawals, etc.• Overloads/Underloads• Incompletes

Department/Major Advisors

Where are they?• Various locations:

http://www.las.illinois.edu/students/advising/declared/

What kinds of things do they do?• Help you select the right courses each semester• Can help you find internships• Can help direct you to faculty for research opportunities• Can help with post-bac goals (med school, law school, etc.)

Faculty MembersWhere are they?• In your classes! Go talk to them!

What kinds of things do they do?• Help you understand the curriculum! Get good

grades!• Help you find undergraduate research

opportunities• Connect you with other faculty, internships,

companies/jobs!• Letters of recommendation

Words of Wisdom

Beware of Alphabet Soup!

Hi RuthThis LAS/JS student is in MCB but wants to change to ESES or EALC or maybe ICT to ACES for CHLH. He was sent here from ODOS. But he only needs to get a DARS from the ARO and an HCLA for his IB class. Can you help?

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The financial impact of missing class…

$28,204 - $33,028 (average $30,616)$15,308 per semester12 credit hours$1275.66 per credit hour$3826.98 for a 3 credit hour classMeets 48 times in 16 weeks for one hour a week$79.72 per hour of class

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Impact on GPA

Average .06 decline in GPA for each missed class*2.9 – 2 missed classes – 2.783.1 – 3 missed classes – 2.92 3.4 – 4 missed classes – 3.28

Academic Standing is determined by Illinois GPASo, all of you have a 0.0!

GPA Calculator: http://www.registrar.illinois.edu/grades/gpa.html

*Study from FYE national conference 2014

Words of WisdomGet Involved!

1. Groups in the College of LAS:• Transfer Advisory Group (TAG!)

- Next meetings: 9/2 and 10/7 in 1022 LH• LAS Council

- Next meeting: 9/9 in 1090 LH• LAS Leaders

- Apply for membership:http://www.las.illinois.edu/alumni/students/leaders/

2. Registered Student Organizations3. Office of Volunteer Programs4. Illinois Leadership Center

We’re glad you have joined us in LAS!

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