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Registration windows close Friday. That’s the last open time before drop/add for the general student body. </p>
<p>People going through a late Orientation can still register (as it wouldn’t be right or fair if they can’t), as can some other groups. The FSU Academic Calendar explains it: [FSU</a> Registration Guide](<a href=“FSU Registrar | Error 404 page not found”>FSU Registrar | Error 404 page not found)</p>
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During Drop/Add you can drop or add classes all you want, no penalty. The only time a late fee occurs (to my knowledge, I’ve never had one) is if you change your schedule after Drop/Add ends. </p>
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The only penalties are to your financial aid- if you aren’t taking at least 12 credits’ worth, most of your financial aid will be pro-rated for however many credits you are taking. </p>
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I’ll just say this piece here: Not all advisors are good at what they do. Sad, but true. While there’s not really a University policy that says that “if you show up to a class that’s full and someone that registered misses the first day, you automatically are able to get in” there is a first day attendance policy for a reason. If you go, and talk to the professor for the class, many will be understanding. And the odds are great that some people will miss the class. As I’ve said before though, what ultimately happens is really up to the professor. If no one misses the first day, and you show up, they aren’t required to offer you a spot in the class. However, I have had a professor before that had 35 people show up to a class with only 25 seats (not including those that had registered and didn’t show up), and he was cool with letting everyone into the class. </p>
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Well, on the first day, you likely haven’t paid for the class anyway. But I would go before class, if possible, and talk to the professor. If however you can’t talk to the professor before class, just sit in the back of class (or wherever), and when they do first day attendance, they’ll likely go through the list of who all is registered and when they are done ask something like “is there anyone I didn’t call?” and you’ll be able to talk to them then. Worst case scenario, they don’t do that and you talk to them after class.</p>
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Technically, I think it’s like the Friday of the first week of class for Fall (it’s the 5th day of classes I believe), although it always has shown up on my account on that Saturday. The Academic Calendar I linked to above though sorta explains it. Either way though, for Fall, you don’t get any excess financial aid funds deposited into your FSUCard account until the Tuesday after Labor Day. </p>
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How is it ridiculous? People have had months to register for classes because they have attended FSU for at least one semester prior to when you are starting. I’m not sure why you are surprised by any of this.
Based on your post history, you were accepted as a transfer for Fall around the end of May. Even if you could register for classes then, everyone else had already had been able to register for classes since March, including many upper-division students already at FSU.
Personally, I’d be ticked to find out on the first day of registration that seats in a class I needed were being held for people who hadn’t even been accepted to the university yet. </p>
<p>As for Housing, all current residents were able to apply for somewhere to live this coming year starting in January (and lasting through March). We all had our assignments for next year for almost 2 months before you were even accepted into the University. Heck, the freshman assignments were already being finalized before you were accepted. What do you expect?
Honestly, you should be amazed that you were even able to get housing at that point that wasn’t in one of the lesser quality freshman dorms. Your assignment is in a building that I was told in April was already putting people on a wait list for the upcoming semester. FSU can’t wait until every single transfer student has had a chance to apply for a dorm before they send out notices of what a person’s assignment is. If they were doing that, they’d be notifying people of their Fall/Spring assignments the day before move-in. There needs to be some cutoff. </p>
<p>I’m sorry you feel slighted. Them’s the breaks though. It’s not the end of the world.</p>