Course registration, junior status, japn placement, violin, prereq, and mail!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>Hello everyone! Hope all your summers are going well. I'm down in the Florida Keys, cut off from frequent internet use and my mail. :) (Still having a good time though).</p>

<p>I have a few somewhat unrelated questions about registration.</p>

<p>1) I'd really like Honors Econ and H Self Knowledge (self knowledge required instructer permission because it's geared towards sophomores and juniors but Dorit Bar-On told me she'd be happy to have me in her class). Through Honors registration I'm into Intro to Fiction Writing and Reverberations. Is there any way that I can get into either of those courses without waiting until the drop-add period? It'd help me out if I knew a little more about my schedule before I start looking towards my non-honors courses to see what also fits in.</p>

<p>2) I took two years at Guilford College and a month or so ago I got a letter saying that all of my credit had transferred and that I had just three hours away from junior status at Carolina. What does that mean? Does it mean that I get any of the perks of registration, parking, etc, or is it just some phrase that will never effect me?</p>

<p>3) I've been working this summer on catching up to Japanese III (can't remember the course number) for Carolina. I bought their Genki series textbooks and workbooks for Japn I and II and am now reviewing and plan to have completed Genki I by at the latest midway through July (this isn't the problem, I'm enjoying this part). The problem is that the placement test for Japanese is just a day or two before courses start, and if I don't place into Japn III then I have to wait a semester to get into Japn II, at which point I may have forgotten a substantial amount of material! I'm scared. What would you all recommend doing? I was thinking of emailing the prof over the summer and letting her know of my progress to try and get into Japn III through my studies. If I still need to know or review a little material by the time the placement test comes, maybe she'll be lenient and allow me in. Is that a crazy idea?</p>

<p>4) I play violin pretty seriously although I've taken a hiatus this year and my practice has diminished. I'd like to have a private teacher at UNC next year. Am I supposed to be emailing people right now to figure out who my teacher will be, or is it as simple as signing up for a course?</p>

<p>5) I saw a course in the Bio department called 'Animal Behavior.' Sounds interesting but I don't know anything about Biology (I took H Bio back in 9th grade but we literally got to about 10 of the 50 chapters in the book). Is Bio a prereq? I'm figuring it is.</p>

<p>6) I'm away from home and my mom cut off the mail at home (we get back in the beginning of July). Has any mail been sent out regarding anything? General college, honors, or Carolina Scholar stuff that anyone knows of? I'm so worried that I'll miss out on something. In May I was at my cousin's graduation for a few days and when I got back I got my honors registration packet that was due the day before and I ended up registering late.</p>

<p>So I guess I have a lot of questions. They all came to me when I woke up this morning. Any help on any of these questions would be much appreciated and would ease my prone-to-worry mind.</p>

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<p>Cloying-- I will send you a pm about the Japanese. Hope it helps.</p>

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<p>I'm a bio mjr taking Animal behavior this fall!! Bio 101 and Lab are prereqs. for it</p>

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<p>How did you like Bio 101 and the Lab? I think I'm placing out of the science + lab because of my Chemistry stuff but I really like taking some hard science stuff each semester. I feel like they bring me out of the abstract and back down to earth. Are there other science courses that you've really liked?</p>

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<p>Cloying, I'm sending you a PM about violin lessons.</p>

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<p>congrats on getting all your credits to transfer, i have a lot of friends who transfer here and UNC only takes a handfull of their creidts.</p>

<p>Anyways, as long as you are a transfer student then you should get the "perks" of the year they classify you in. Whatever the system classifies you as is what the system will see when assigning class registration dates and parking spots. If you are an incoming freshman then they would just classify you as a First Year Student.</p>

<p>i could be mistaken but this is what I've seen from my transfer friends. The big benefit would be the better registration date.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I didn't expect all of my credits to transfer.</p>

<p>I'm actually not a transfer student. It's a bit of a weird situation. I just graduated from a public high school in NC where junior and senior year are spent taking all our classes at Guilford College (which is a four year college in Greensboro, NC). It works out really well because I'll place out of a lot of 101 classes and if I'd like to, I'm probably half the way to a Math or Psych major. Anyway, so when we apply to colleges we don't apply as transfer students but rather as first years. But in the letter I received about my credit transferring, it had a little key to the side that matched up number of hours transferring to year status.</p>

<p>In any case, I'm just going to assume that I'm a First Year Student with a lot of credits to my name.</p>

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<p>yea, thats pretty much what you'd be then, but having all those credits is really nice since it makes it so you shouldn't have any crazy credit packed semesters. Plus if you wanted to you could graduate in less than 4 years, or just make it so your senior year is really easy. Since your last semester senior year you can take 9 hours and still count as Full Time.</p>

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<p>I didn't take biol 101 at UNC--I placed out through the AP exam. As for other science classes, microbiology has been my favorite!</p>

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<p>I'm thinking I might graduate in three years and then maybe get my masters in something. A lot of my friends going to Carolina are planning to go pre med and be out of there in two years, but I really want to make the most of my time in college and try and stick around rather than rush out. Hopefully I won't regret the decision. :)</p>

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<p>advice for your intro to fiction writing class....you'll never get in off that wait list too many kids...go for the carolina courses online version, it's still open and UNC allows students to take one online course per semester. That's what I did, needed the class for my writing for stage and screen minor, soph. transfer.</p>

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<p>thanks! I actually got into the fiction writing class, which I wasn't expecting, but I'll use that tip for other courses down the road. I never would have thought of that.</p>

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<p>Hey there, I'm a fellow ECG graduate and a Japanese major :) If you took the first two levels of Japanese at Guilford, I think that you ought to be fine with getting into Japanese 201 at UNC. The placement test (at least last year) is more of a "demonstrate what you know" kind of test, so my best advice is just to keep it simple and make sure what you put down doesn't have a bunch of errors. </p>

<p>As far as not wanting to rush out of college, if you can afford it, you should stay! UNC is really different from Guilford but I also really enjoy it. If there were no classes, it'd be paradise. xD</p>

<p>In order to get any perks, I think you actually have to apply for upperclassman status, and I don't think you can do it in your first year. Advising really sucks, so it may be hard to get a straight answer, and make sure to check your academic worksheet instead of trusting them to get it right, because they have no idea what's going on with the new curriculum either.</p>

<p>Welcome to UNC~</p>

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<p>Wow. I had no idea ECG alumni were on here. :)</p>

<p>You really had no trouble placing into Japanese 201? I made 'A-'es in both Japanese 101 and 102, but still feel worried. Did you place well into Japanese 201, or barely make it? Did you know enough kanji? Thank you so much!</p>

<p>And... what's the academic worksheet? :[</p>

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<p>Crap, I keep forgetting the course numbers. xD You'll be trying for Japanese 203. I actually placed into Japanese 305 since I took 201 and 202 at Guilford with Hirakawa-sensei, and I was definitely where I needed to be. :) Don't worry too much about it, because unlike other foreign languages, it's not a numbers thing where you need a 600 to get into 203 and if you get a 595 you have to do a semester over ;) </p>

<p>You'll do a short test that will ask you to identify hiragana and so-forth, and to write a little bit about a topic like your family or something. I don't remember there being a lot of kanji (if any) since the same test is used to place all of the levels, I think. After filling it out, you'll probably look over it with one of the Japanese professors and talk to them for just a minute so they can assess your speaking skills-it's not like a big interview or anything!</p>

<p>I'm not exactly happy with my kanji level, but I think that has more to do with my study habits than the fact I came from ECG. xD You'll find that there will be a lot of people more clueless than you are, even though you're new, so しんぱいしないで！</p>

<p>Academic worksheet is something you don't need to worry about quite yet, but you should probably start soon. Basically they're guides to fulfilling your requirements, and you can find them here: <a href="http://advising.unc.edu/new-curriculum-worksheets%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://advising.unc.edu/new-curriculum-worksheets&lt;/a>
The problem is that many of the advisors are new and the system is also pretty brand new to everyone, so you have to be careful about which classes will count for which requirements. :D</p>

<p>Sorry for the late response, I forgot the name of this website for a bit, ahaha. But I'm always happy to help out a fellow Japanese student (and ECG'er! I was only there a year so I like getting to know other folks.) and I'll definitely be around for advice, study help, or whatever during the year as well. :)</p>