<p>Our oldest went to a state U and the academic advising pretty much consisted of meeting with your advisor freshman year to sign up for classes during orientation. If the kids had questions they pretty much had to figure it out on their own or if they were lucky an older student helped them.</p>
<p>A friend went with her college senior son to meet with his advisor because they couldn’t figure out if he had enough credits to graduate or not-complicated major. He has to go another semester because he missed something early on. He is at a big, well respected, research U. This was his 3rd advisor because of staff turnover or sabbaticals.</p>