I was helping my daughter pick and register for courses at two Universities for her first year. She's been conditionally accepted at both but not yet decided which one to choose. Both U's sent her letters requesting to complete first year course registrations now. Maybe I've been out of this too long; but I found the process very unfriendly, unclear and difficult despite being available online. Most core courses have already been filled-up. Some of those remaining were available at really awkward times, like late evenings. Supplementary courses (tutorials and labs) are not "connected" to the main courses. Requisites are sometimes noted in the footnotes and you wouldn't know about them until the course registration is rejected. At the end of the registration process, her Fall course schedule was looking completely inefficient (i.e. one class Monday evening, no classes on Tuesday, then three classes on Wednesday etc.). For Universities that should be on the forefront of web-based process efficiency, this seems very sluggish.
Questions to current university students:
- Are the above-referenced scheduling difficulties a common thing these days?
- Can it be revised early in the semester?
- How to beat it next time?
Please and thanks.
CY