<p>I am astounded. My son has had 3 years of high school Spanish and the advisor suggested he take Portuguese or Polish. Thank goodness he texted me about his meeting. </p>
<p>I am also surprised at the lack of class availability in basic Intro classes for freshmen. I thought he would be in good shape since he signed up for an early orientation session.</p>
<p>Maybe she wanted him to be tri-lingual? It could also be that the advisers here aren’t too great.</p>
<p>I heard that they allocate a set amount of seats for each orientation…</p>
<p>Did he register online? I heard some kids were gung ho with their laptops and all for online registration…</p>
<p>That’s silly. I get the impression that the advisers they have here at orientation aren’t the best. (my advisers were in my honors program so luckily I didn’t have to deal with that.) Does your son have AP or Dual credit for Spanish? If not, he’ll end up having to take a couple of semesters of a foreign language to fulfill the core requirement.</p>
<p>Also, some basic advice is that if you see a class that you need/want and it’s waitlisted, don’t be discouraged. Put yourself on the waitlist and make it so that the system swaps one of your classes for the waitlisted one. I’ve been on several waitlists and have always eventually gotten into the classes. Classes will probably open up and your son should just be checking several times a day online for the classes he wants to see if anything has happened with them.</p>
<p>That…that’s just…wow. Portugese is a lot different than Spanish…it’s sooo not similar and then… Polish… I don’t know what he was thinking.</p>
<p>I would advise, first, the literal, take Spanish and then if that’s full take French. I’m fluent in Spanish both from home and have been schooled in Spanish and French was easy to learn because of that. Italian is the next best thing too.</p>
<p>And they do save seats for each round of orientation but they go really fast. He’ll have a slight better chance when it registers for the spring semester later on and so on.</p>