PA

Part of Speech

Abbreviation

Pronunciation

['pee 'ay]

Description

An abbreviation for Peer Adviser. A PA is a student who is trained welcome new students, including incoming freshmen and transfers, during Wildcat Welcome and help them transition to Northwestern. New students are organized into small groups of about 5-15 people, appropriately called PA groups, that have one or two specific PAs assigned to them for the entirety of Wildcat Welcome.

Example Sentence

Nina is thinking about applying to be a PA next year.

External Links

http://www.northwestern.edu/orientation/about-us/prospective-peer-advisers/index.html