Advising & Enrollment
Academic Advising
The office of Academic Advising provides comprehensive academic advising that will enable you to chart your own educational journey and make the most of your undergraduate experience at Stanford. Every incoming undergraduate student will be assigned an Undergraduate Advising Director (UAD) who will contact you this summer to begin the advising conversation.
Meet Your Advisors
Undergraduate Advising Directors (UADs): First-year students, who are not student-athletes, will be assigned an academic advisor based in your residence assignment. Your UAD will serve as your primary advisor throughout your time at Stanford. UADs advise all undergraduate students and can assist with both routine and complex matters pertaining to academic requirements and policies; course selection and sequencing; investigating majors, research, and fellowships; and post-graduate study.
Undergraduate Advising Directors for Student-Athletes: Varsity student-athletes will be assigned a UAD for student-athletes, located in the Athletic Academic Resource Center (AARC). Your UAD will serve as your primary advisor throughout your time at Stanford. In addition to advising students on academic requirements and policies; course selection and sequencing; and investigating majors, advisors for student-athletes are uniquely qualified and trained to evaluate student-athletes’ academic eligibility requirements as well as to help you balance your time commitments so that you can meet both your academic and athletic goals.
Specialized Advisors in Sweet Hall: Specialized UADs, including the academic advisor for transfers, are located on the first floor of Sweet Hall. In addition to general academic advising, these advisors have focused expertise from research, grants, and fellowships to co-terminal and pre-professional interests (e.g., pre-law, pre-med, pre-business, and pre-education). New students can begin to make appointments with co-terminal and pre-professional advisors once the academic year begins.
New Student Orientation & Course Enrollment
While Axess opens in early September for continuing students to enroll, as new students you have the 'New Student Advisement' Enrollment Hold on your account restricting you from enrolling. This enrollment hold will be automatically released for frosh during NSO after the Academic Advising Presentation. If you have completed your Approaching Stanford Requirements, you will be able to log in and begin to enroll in your Autumn Quarter courses at that time.*
Course Enrollment Instructions:
*Note: In order to enroll in courses, you must also have completed all other obligations required of incoming students, including submission of the Approaching Stanford Forms, Health Requirements, final official high school transcript, and official test scores (if applicable).