<p>Hey, well, I have to register for courses for my Freshman year at ND and the deadline is the end of this month.</p>
<p>Well, I plan on taking General Bio, General Chem, University Seminar, Calc A/B, and Latin. As a premed, I hope thats an ok load and if any current students can comment, that would be helpful.</p>
<p>Anyways, my MAIN question is, when you register courses, can you choose your teacher for the course? From what my friends at ND told me, and based on the teacher reviews from ndtoday.com, there are some teachers that I would NOT like based on these thoughts. What I am saying is that, I have heard it directly verbally and have read about these teachers and I have built an impression that I would like to take my course only under a particular teacher.</p>
<p>Thus, does ND allow you to select your teacher? I know that it is a bit prejudiced, but we all know that sometimes its the teacher and not the student as to why you got a low grade or as to why you had not learned the material thoroghly.</p>
<p>I am the wrong person to ask for obvious reasons (I wasn't there freshman year) but I am pretty sure it is that your advisor at First Year of Studies that registers you so you probably won't have any control over the professors you have. You probably could contact them and ask about it but I think that is the case. I hope someone who was a freshman can help me a bit on this.</p>
<p>The only thing I worry about is I think that will be a very very busy first semester, especially if you have labs! Do you have to take all of those classes right now? I wouldn't delay the Latin if you have been taking it (I delayed Spanish for 3 years and that was a mistake) but perhaps it would be good to only take one science or not take a University Seminar just so you have a little less on your plate while you adjust. Up to you, it just seems like a heavy load to me.</p>
<p>Did you receive a notice asking you to register by the end of June? My son is an incoming freshman, and I have not seen anything like that in the materials that he has received so far.</p>
<p>It just came in the mail today so you may not have received it yet. </p>
<p>I'm a little flustered with the FYS packet. </p>
<p>I am tentatively a business major but my life's interest has always been in politics and economic stuff. That puts me definitely into Economics 10010. But Mendoza supposedly requires 2 out of sociology/anthropology/psychology.</p>
<p>Which would.....seem to take up alot of the focus of my freshman year, considering I'm locked into a "topical" science, the seminar, and some form of mathematics.</p>
<p>So I'm a little confused as to what someone who's not definitely going into one thing should do...</p>
<p>It seems like there aren't enough hours in the day for me to fill my requirements / cover a broad spectrum (to see what i really want to do).</p>
<p>It is hard and you have to prioritize but it can be done. I got my requirements done early and could graduate in a semester but I am staying for the full year to finish a second major. There are lots of opportunities, I know it, but you just have to try to limit your scope a bit. Once you know where you are going, it isn't that bad to finish the requirements. There are a lot of them but you have a lot of time!</p>
<p>I have a question as well. So, for first semester I have to take: Honors Seminar, Honors Philosophy, Biology 10161, and Chemistry (probably 10181, since I'm planning on a biochem major). However, I can test out of Calculus 10550 because of my 5 on the AP test. Assuming a 4 or 5 on my calc BC test, and no 5 on my chemistry test, this leaves me with 4 classes, but it seems like FYS assumes everyone will be taking 5 classes per semester. Given the difficulty of the classes I will be taking, would it be advisable to take a Chinese class first semester as well?</p>
<p>One thing I should have said in my last post is really you may as well. Notre Dame is very nice with dropping classes because you don't get a W for classes you drop after the add/drop date so you can take a class and drop it after midterm if you are not doing well. If I were you I would go ahead and sign up for it and start it and if it is too much then drop it. I should have told the OP the same thing but I still think their schedule looks like hell! I hope that helps!</p>
<p>So irish68178, you do not have any teacher preference whatsover? For example, say if a senior told you, "man don't take this teacher, and if you get him, you gotta switch out as soon as you get your schedule" Can I do that and tell my advisor that I have a friend who recommended this teacher instead...?</p>
<p>As a premed, I just want to take all the precautions towards my benefit despite that I know things may not always be fair and go my way, but I could be wrong, but I heard that in some colleges, you can choose your teacher for the course, but I am not sure at ND. I say this becaues I read a lot of hte teacher reviews at <a href="http://www.ndtoday.com%5B/url%5D">www.ndtoday.com</a> and have realized who I want and who I do not want.</p>
<p>I didn't mean to say that I don't have a preference, I actually base my schedule upon the professors, but I don't know that a freshman gets to choose unfortunately since you aren't really the one registering but they are registering for you. You definately can talk to them or if you get in a bad section ask them to switch you into a different one, and you may as well ask them if you have a preference. I just don't know how helpful they will be unfortunately, but I will be curious to find out. I am the same way with selecting professors, however. I had a professor like Gresik and that was quite a lesson on the difference a professor makes! ND Today is a great resource, but if you can't get the profs you want (and you may not be able to for a while since you won't have seniority) then just do your best because sometimes the professors with the worst reviews are fine, you never know. I hope that makes a bit more sense.</p>
<p>i have a question...we dont get our AP scores till july so i can i pick classes before then without knowing the credit i got from APs?? for example...i took the AP english lit exam and my counselor said if i pass it with a 4 or 5 i wont have to take FYC...soooo im confused....</p>
<p>if you read through the checklist it says to pretend like you are not getting the credit. So put down a freshmen seminar you'd like to take and next to it put "Awaiting Ap Credit" that way your advisor knows to look and see if you got the 4 or the 5. I had the same question with Calc AB and thats what the office told me to do.</p>
<p>Sooo...if I assume I will not get my AP calc BC credit, should I register for a calc class first semester, or would I be safe taking the chance of not registering for a math course first semester and leaving that off to take second semester if I don't get the BC credit?</p>
<p>Whatever you feel best doing, but it would be easy to change if you do get it. I probably would just register for calc and then get switched to calc 2 if (when) you get it.</p>
<p>I wouldn't risk it...assume you didn't get the credit and sign up for a math class first semester. If you do get the credit you'll just take the second semester equivalent of whatever you got credit for. That's just my opinion of course you are free to do as you please.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I'm cofused on fortunatexfool's post but just to clarify, you aren't exempt from a freshman seminar if you score well on any english AP. You can only get out of FYC.</p>
<p>To clarify- if I got the BC credit, I would have 2 of the 3 calculus classes required for the biochem major, so I would only have one math class left to take, which I was thinking/hoping I could leave off until 2nd semester or soph yr. Does anyone know if I am allowed to do this? If I didn't get the BC credit, I would have 2 classes to take, which means I should probably take BC 1st semester to get it out of the way. However, at the risk of sounding cocky/jinxing myself, I will say that I can realistically expect at least a 4 on my BC test, which would give me the credit.</p>
<p>I don't see why you wouldn't be able to wait on that last Calculus class unless it is a prereq. for another class that you want. I still would probably sign up for the lower math class because you can always drop it or change it once you get to South Bend. This is not set in stone, not even after classes start. You have a week to move in and out of classes.</p>
<p>question: Is college like high school where you should be taking the most advanced classes or not? I'd like to go to medical school and am having difficulty discerning which levels to take. Thanks</p>