<p>Title says it all I'm in Polisci I want to switch to Behavioral Neuroscience</p>
<p>Can it be done at orientation or should I just do it online?</p>
<p>I would just call and ask what to do.</p>
<p>You should not plan on dealing with this at orientation. It isn't as simple as an online switch. You need to call Admissions and discuss with them.</p>
<p>Yeah, I already contacted my advisor because of another issue, and she said to email or call her right away if I ever wanted to change something like that. I just submitted my preferred classes and everything, and it said you are pre-enrolled in certain classes (although you can switch some, I think) according to your major. Definitely do NOT just show up at orientation with a different major. There is even a link on the portal saying "Request Change in Major".</p>
<p>What are the preferred classes? And when did you have to pick them. My son is going to be in the pharmacy program. I don't think he got anything about preferred classes.</p>
<p>Orientations are schedules around majors so you should (again) call. Are you an engineering major neuchimie?</p>
<p>I just received a few days ago an email saying that I had to take a "tutorial" before orientation. It talked about the core, and how majors work at Northeastern, and other informative things like that. At the end, it had a list of classes that I would be "pre-enrolled" in due to my major. Next was a form to fill out where you could put at most 6 classes that you would like to take instead of the pre-enrolled ones. For instance, I was pre-enrolled into Calculus 1, but since I was a Calc BC student and a Higher Level IB Math student, I requested the Calculus 3 class instead as one of my 6. I also put down a french class, because it said you could put down electives you would like to take if possible.</p>
<p>The form was more of an email to the advisor, not an official "these are your classes" registration. It said that my advisor would be contacting me soon to discuss my choices.</p>
<p>However, I am orientation A, which is only two weeks away. They may only have students do this tutorial/preferences closer to their personal orientation day.</p>
<p>And no, I'm a Chemistry major in CAS.</p>
<p>lowermorelandmom, i'm in pharmacy too and i didn't get anything about classes...I think pharmacy students dont rele get a choice...we barely have any electives throughout the 6 years. I think 1st semester you can decide between calculus or psychology but maybe we do that at orientation...</p>
<p>Pharmacy majors don't choose classes, nor do health science majors. You are pre-placed.</p>
<p>Which means Bio with Potts-santone at 8:00 am, most likely.</p>
<p>Emily2007 I have a few questions for you. For pharmacy, when you go to orientation are all of your classes already chosen for you? Do you get the schedule at orientation? Also it looks like the first semester you take either pre-calc or psychology. Do you have a choice? Which did you take? Can you place out of pre-calc? How was your first year, was it difficult? Did you live on the Bouve LLC floor in stetson west? Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm actually not a pharmacy major, I'm behavioral neuroscience, but I know a little bit about pharm because the first year course load is practically identical in both majors, so I have some good pharm friends.</p>
<p>Don't quote me on it, but based on how most science majors work, the schedule will be given at orientation with classes already chosen, then students meet with their advisors to go over any issues or changes they want to meet. This is really to the student's advantage--it guarantees that students will get into the classes they need, this is especially important in science, because upper level courses have so many pre-reqs (ie. Regulatory Cell Bio needs Biochem which needs a full year of Organic Chem which needs a full year of Chem.)</p>
<p>You can definitely place out of pre-calc, a lot of science majors go straight to Calc I or some skip to higher levels. That'll get taken care of during orientation. As far as psych, I think it would be a good idea to take it during first semester. Simply because it's a relatively easy class, which is nice to have while taking bio/chem and adapting to college. Overall, first year is manageable, it's no harder than first year of health science/bio/chem/neuro. It's not a breeze, but someone entering a 6 year Pharm program probably expects that. </p>
<p>As far as Bouve, I have friends who did it, I don't know if it made a huge difference. You can easily make other Pharm friends without living in the LLC, plus in my opinion, it's nice to have friends outside your major. That's really a personal choice though.</p>
<p>Emily, I jjust changed my major to behavioral neuroscience would u mind giving me any pointers/advice or just talking to me in general about u find it?</p>
<p>It's just going to be a lot of science. Lots of biology, lots of chemistry, a decent amount of math, and a lot of psychology, although there's some variety in the type of psych classes you take.</p>
<p>I love the program, the curriculum is good, there are lots of different options in which courses you take, the professors are really good, and there are lots of opportunities for co-ops and research. I really have no complaints, except for being required to take Calc II, which might actually kill me.</p>
<p>Oh don't worry, Calculus II isn't so bad. Just fight the suicidal urges and read the book twenty times.</p>
<p>Wait til Calc III. That's good stuff.</p>
<p>I'm taking Calc III as my first college class at 9:15 am... My parents call me masochistic.</p>
<p>Do you know who you have yet?</p>
<p>The teacher? Yeah I do. In fact, I think I know my whole schedule right now, so long as it doesn't get changed at orientation in a week or so. But I'm nearly certain this is the schedule I'll have.</p>
<p>I have Calc 3 with Martsinkovsky, Organic Chem with Rozners, Chem at NEU with Beuning, French Comp and Convo with Ziane, and Inquiries into Art/Humanities (the honors thing) with Kindelan.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how these teachers are? I can't even pronounce my calc teacher's name...</p>
<p>Hmm, I haven't heard of any of your professors. Ratemyprofessors is a good way to get a general idea of how professors are. I had a good time with Gaffney for calc III (even though it was a lot of work). I think you pronounce it Mart-Sink-Ov-Skii. You'll find some professors have difficult to pronounce names (I.e. Kugabalasoori, Maheshwaran). </p>
<p>You might find your schedule change in August. Last year I found that all of my professors changed in August, but my actual roommate's schedule stayed the exact same.</p>