<p>I also got called by an admissions rep....she told me she was "very excited" about my application. Haha.</p>
<p>Cool thing: I saw you could double major in architecture and a liberal arts degree! This is awsome news since I only fairly recently (1 year ago or so) decided to switch my major to political science. </p>
<p>On the downside, it would take 7 years. 3 years at Grinnell and 4 years at Washington U. in STL. I'd be like.....3 years older than everyone else....yikes.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got mine several months ago (sent my application in way early, though, even though I wasn't ED) and had lots of fun highlighting all the courses I wanted to take.</p>
<p>If you're really into architecture/polisci, then go ahead and do it - you do have to consider whether or not your parents will pay for 7 years for college (if they're paying at all).</p>
<p>The odds of you following through with your "major of the year" are slim.</p>
<p>After a few semesters of liberal arts, you may become enthralled with a subject you never thought would touch you. You ARE WAY TOO YOUNG to commit to anything.</p>
<p>If in the second year, you continue on this course, God bless. If not, no harm.</p>
<p>i was wondering how you currently pick classes at grinnell...</p>
<p>i talked to some alumni who graduated like 5 years ago, and when they were there, you had to wait in a long line, and then go up to the desks of the professor whose class you wanted to take, and sign up. If you didnt get there pretty early, you were pretty much scre*ed and did not get the class you wanted.</p>
<p>i wondered if this is how they still do it, because this way seems unfair and unorganized...</p>
<p>I got mine at the end of Dec. Actually my host-mom got it a few days after I left the US(I was an exchange student in TN), so I couldn't see it ;( I sent my application in the middle of Dec. so it was pretty surprising to hear from Grinnell so soon.</p>
<p>USTAS
I think the students continue to do this the 'old fashioned' way. That said- my son, who is in a relatively popular major, has had no trouble getting all the classes he has wanted, and he never gets anywhere early....I think that what happens is that they stagger the time you are to come and register by the first letter of your last name, and semester to semester this rotates...so everyone gets a chance at first crack at some point...</p>
<p>Registration for first semester is done "the old-fashioned way," with randomly assigned, staggered times. After that, students meet one-on-one with their advisers, fill out registration cards, and turn them in.</p>
<p>"Old-fashioned way"? It's when all members of the faculty are in one room (the Harris Center Concert Hall), sitting behind tables with their departments, offering their signatures to students who want to take their classes.</p>
<p>no it's about 3/4 of an inch thick and lists all classes/majors, and it has descriptions of each including prerequisites and the teachers who teach them</p>