Callie, I am not sure what you are suggesting here, Callie. When you say that advisers should not "withhold" information, are you suggesting that they should b saying (however politely), "This is not a good field for you because you'll never get a job?" Or are you suggesting that they shouldn't hold back critical information about the demands of the field because of some worry about being discouraging? My experience is that the problem is seldom that advisers don't say enough. More often they say too much, and impose their own conclusions on the student. Dr. Jane Jarrow