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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
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 |
Seeing how I am just about to graduate university in 5 weeks I'll will chime in.
So yeah, unfortunately first year registration is hectic because most universities open registration for classes for students already attending in March/April so students who get accepted later on unfortunately have to pick up classes in awkward times. BUT DONT DISPAIR! haha, the great thing is first week of university in the fall people drop/change classes like there is no tomorrow and this is where your kid will have to take advantage, and I mean literally sitting there refreshing every little while to see if a spot is open in a class she wants.
You won't have to beat it next time, just the unfortunate circumstance of first year students. But make sure she keeps up to speed on when class registration for the next semester open's up to take advantage RIGHT AWAY if she wants to schedule out when she wants her classes/what classes she wants.
Labs for classes - pretty straight forward just look at the description for which course ID number the class is for the lab and click the two (usually right after the class ends ex) 1:50 end 2:00pm lab starts)
I can't even tell you, or begin to describe how messed up some of my schedules have been over my university semesters over the years. I now go to school at night (Mon-Thurs) 6-9pm each day after working full time. Thank god 5 more weeks of this ####.