Advising
Freshman Year Sophomore Year Junior Year Senior Year
Advising within the Carroll School is coordinated by The Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduates. The advising model is very much a team advising model. All students are assigned faculty advisors, who change every year as the advising needs of students develop. In addition to official faculty advisors, there is a team of deans, staff, and peers who work with Carroll School undergraduates. A student’s team may include their faculty advisor, an assistant dean, a peer advisor, a career specialist, and others.
All Carroll School freshmen are assigned a faculty advisor, who is also their Portico instructor. In addition to regular class meetings, freshmen will meet with their Portico instructor for a variety of advising matters. Portico instructors are assisted by their Teaching Assistants, Carroll School upperclassmen who will mentor their students both in and out of the classroom.
In the spring semester, the freshmen will continue to meet with their advisors to discuss class selection, choosing their concentration, and any other academic and co-curricular questions.
Sophomore Year:
Sophomores are assigned formal faculty advisors to help with course advising in particular fields of study. Also, many decisions regarding 
study abroad, course of study, and how to best spend extracurricular time emerge in the sophomore year. To help with some of these questions, the Associate Dean’s office offers daily drop-in hours where staff will be available to meet and help in academic planning and goal setting for the future.
Sophomores in the Carroll School are also invited to meet with Assistant Dean Jim Halpin to learn about the curricular and extracurricular options at Boston College and within the Carroll School. Dean Halpin advises students on maximizing the academic and extracurricular resources within the university. Dean Halpin welcomes drop-ins from the Carroll School and is open to meeting with students from any school at Boston College for advising.
As juniors begin to think more deeply about jobs, careers and vocational interests, they should take advantage of the Carroll School’s Career Center Liaison. Amy Donegan, Associate Director of the Career Center, works in the Carroll School two days a week and can help with resume critiques, interviewing techniques, and networking tips. Amy Donegan, with the assistance of the Associate Dean’s office, will run various vocational programs such as Career Launch to prepare juniors for the internship search process.
Starting in the junior year, students are assigned to the department of their selected concentration for advising. Students will begin taking more classes in their concentration and will have more focused questions about their field of study. Each department handles advising differently, usually incorporating large group advising programs as well as some opportunities to meet with faculty individually.
Seniors continue with departmental advising based upon their concentration. Departments will be able to provide 
students with vocational guidance which will be their primary focus for senior year.
Advising for seniors is also done by Amy Donegan, Associate Director, Career Center, and the Associate Dean’s office staff, depending on the issue or question at hand.