<p>When do prospective freshmen register for courses? And how many classes do you all recommend?</p>
<p>orientation week.
you will be pre-registered for 2 classes in columbia college (1 in seas), so most students will take between 2 and 3 other classes. your advisor most likely will suggest only take 4 for starters, i didn’t have trouble taking 5.</p>
<p>at columbia you can also ‘shop’ so you could try out a class and drop it if you think the work will be too much, or register for it late.</p>