<p>I mean, I don’t think that I am the ideal person to ask about this, because I was 500 miles away from campus while applying to grad school, but I did use my advisior to some extend, and he was pretty helpful, he always responded immediately, despite the fact that I was no longer a current student, Also, I spoke to professors in y department, who I actually think are the best resource for applying to grad school, because they are going to know the programs that you are looking at better than anyone else, and have experience with graduate students. Honestly, I didn’t hang out with the econ type kids at all, most of my friends were in the humanities, social sciences, art, etc… and these people tend to be at a bit of a lost as to what to do immediately after graduation regardless of what school they went to. (This is of course biased by the fact that I am in biology, where you have to get a phd or md)</p>