<p>I know I have to take the placement tests. Besides that, should I search for UIUC catalogue and decide what classes I will want to take or the academic adviser will fill me in on that day? (Honestly, I have not a single clue what I want take yet, I'm a business major:undecided).</p>
<p>You will need, if you have not already done so, to sign up for a summer session where you register. You should also start looking at the gen ed requirements and the business college core requirements (go to student handbook in the business college section of the website and to the university general education requirments sections) to see what courses you have to take and look at courses available in the fall and times available so things will go quicker when you register. </p>
<p>For example, You say you have no idea what you “want to take” yet. Well, if you started reviewing requiirements, you would soon learn that it matters little what you “want to take” because you must start taking required courses in the fall regardless of what you want. For example, in freshman year you should complete: (a) initial rhetoric requirement which can be one four hour course or two sequential three hour courses: (b) a math sequence (different ways to meet it but generally means you will need two math courses freshman year, one each semester; (c) Commnications 101 (basic speech course); (d) Computer Science 105 (basic comp sci course); (e) Econ 102 and 103; (e) if you don’t have four years of high school language, you need to take language to finish the language requirement; (f) you should start meeting gen ed requirements. For gen ed, you should particularly look at the available courses that meet gen ed requirments and look at them carefully as to the requirments met. A key to gen ed courses is that certain ones meet more than one gen ed requirement and that means you can meet 6 hours of gen ed requirments with only one three hour course (you get only 3 hours of credit but the course counts toward two different gen ed requirments, thus allowing you eventually to meet the overall gen ed requirements with fewer than the total hours shown; in fact some courses count toward three different gen ed requirements). It will be important to know what those courses are before registering so start the review before going to the summer session.</p>
<p>Ah Drusba, I was hoping that you’d weigh in on summer registration and reviewing requirements. I’ve got some questions on this critical subject. You really want to spend your time taking classes that meet the degree requirements for the degree that you would like, and that includes the campus general education requirements, which seem to be further broken down into specific areas. For example, engineering requires 18 hours of humanities and social science electives to get a degree, but you’ve got to meet the 12 hours of gen ed, which is further broken down into 6 hours of humanities and 6 hours of social sciences, and then another 6 of whatever the engineering student wants. If I’m not mistaken, AP credit can be used to fulfill these requirements, as well as some of the core requirements of the engineering degree like Chemistry and Calculus I. And while some people have boatloads of AP credit, once all the requirment slots are full, the credit becomes less and less worthwhile towards making progress to your ultimate goal of obtaining the degree. Is that correct? Also, I think a 32 or greater in your English ACT subscore will give you credit for RHET 105 and fulfill the Composition I requirement.</p>
<p>Also, in Engineering, won’t the core math and science courses also fulfill the campus level Gen Ed requirements for Quantitative Reasoning I and II?</p>
<p>Lastly, while I know of some “two-fer” courses like Hist 172 that will fulfill both a humanities and the western civ requirement, can you give us some examples of the “three-fer” courses that you mentioned above? Really, in order to be prepared for the advising session, knowing this information is critical, and because colleges (an even programs within?) have their own lists of recommended and eligible courses that meet the campus level requirements, you would really have to talk to a college level advisor. Actually, I don’t know why there isn’t a “tips” page on what really amounts to course registration science (or, at least I haven’t found it yet).</p>
<p>^Go here: [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer)</p>
<p>Then just click on a category such as humanities and the arts or social and behavioral sciences. What you will then get is a list of courses that meet that requirement but the list also provides what other requirements the particular course meets and as you will see many meet two requirements and some meet three.</p>
<p>AP courses can be used to meet gen ed requirements. For engineering (or any science major) the courses you are required to take for those majors will satisfy any science and math gen ed requirements; for business the math sequence you are required to take for that college will meet the math gen ed requirement.</p>
<p>One additional question on Summer Registration: Given that your AP scores for AP Chemistry and AP Calculus won’t be in before registering for classes, how would you register for your Math and Chem/Physics sequence as an engineering student? If you get at least a 4 in both tests, you would place into Calc 2 and fulfill your Chem requirement, allowing you to start your Physics sequence. If you’re confident that you’ll do well in the APs, should you go ahead and initially register for your optimistic schedule, or register for Calc 1 and Chem and then later try to drop/add Calc 2 and Phys 211?</p>
<p>wait if you are not going for the summer registration(i’m an international student), does it mean that you would not be assigned courses until august, and everyone else will already have them?</p>
<p>They retain slot openings and release them weekly, so freshman, regardless of when their registration occurs, should have slots available for all courses that they need, but likely not at the ideal time.</p>
<p>wow thats bad</p>