<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am currently a Senior at Elon and can tell you that your daughter should ABSOLUTELY do a generic Elon 101. If she is interested in Intramurals, she will easily be able to find peers interested in creating a team. I’d encourage her to reach out to her future Elon 101 class members and ask who would be interested in joining her for Co-Ed Flag Football 7x7 (that is the first intramural they do in the Fall). She should go to CampusRec to learn more about Intramural Sports on campus (the front desk that you swipe in at before entering the gym facilities).</p>
<p>I understand your concern and would encourage you to tell your daughter this… Elon will do a great job of integrating you with diverse groups of people. The beauty of Elon 101 is meeting peers with different interests and intents for the world. She will get a great experience by doing a generic Elon 101.</p>
<p>You are right to be weary of an adviser. The advisers at Elon are strong, and they love their line of work. Their love can sometimes turn into a desire to turn their students into similar products. I would encourage your daughter to meet with a few different professors in the Fall (from multiple majors) and simply talk to them about her interests. It would be such a shame if she got to Senior year and then realized she loves Sociology, Psych, etc. instead of whatever she ended up studying. She may reply “but that sounds so creepy, cold calling professors asking to meet and talk about their field.” Tell her to try it 3 times, and if she hates it, she can stop. Freshmen do not realize that 98% of professors do this job to mentor students. They are more than happy to sit with a stranger and talk about his or her interests.</p>
<p>Feel free to send a note to my father (the owner of this account) and I will be happy to give you a few names of psych professors I’d recommend she chat to in her first month or two at Elon, to make sure she gets the full experience.</p>