<p>When do we start registrating for courses? Are there different dates for different schools? If so, what is the deadline to register courses for engineering school? Also, where do you register courses, online? thanks!</p>
<p>It does depend by school. I know some schools (including Eng, although someone please verify/correct) do have pre-registration, where you submit some course selections prior to orientation. Other schools will pre-register you before you arrive in classes that you must take (colloquiums, etc).
As a main rule, though, freshman usually make their final course selections during Add/Drop period, which is the Wed before classes start. This may have changed from when I did it, but I was only pre-registered for 1/2 classes, and had to add the rest of them.</p>
<p>The only class that does not fall into this is the First Year Writing Seminar (FWS). These classes enroll you after you submit a ballot of your top choices.</p>
<p>in in ILR and i was wondering how often the colloquiums met, ceruleanyankee?</p>
<p>if ur CAS, u'll register during orientation, manually at Goldwin Smith. It's gonna suck butt b/c u may not get the classesu want. They'll do first-come-first-serve by ur ID number so u may be screwed be one of the last to register. The ones that fill up fast are, Econ 102&101, Psych 101, Spanish, French, Chem, Bio, Calc, and prob some other pre-reqs. </p>
<p>I highly recommend starting to got thru the Course Book and picking out classes you would like to take. CAS has no Core so u're on ur own for choosing classes. You'll get an email though about required classes for CAS and that will help you. </p>
<p>Before registration, use <a href="http://www.schedulizer.com%5B/url%5D">www.schedulizer.com</a> to make a schedule of possible classes. Make different times, different classes, etc, so in case one fails you have a backup. Scedulizer.com is a life saver so do not neglect it. </p>
<p>And if the ur not CAS this could prob help those who are :)</p>
<p>in engineering, they give you a schedule. You can find it maybe a few weeks before classes start. But, nothing is set in stone...you can change your schedule during add/drop.</p>
<p>the ILR colloquiums vary on the times you meet i think...it all depends on who your ILR colloquium professor is...and it can get into the way of your studies!!</p>
<p>usually ILR colloquiums meet once a week, tuesday or wed nights, for 7 weeks. You also have a field trip during orientation for the class. Sometimes professors change nights, but for the most part, they keep it pretty consistent. It doesn't really get in your way, haha, please don't freak them out.</p>
<p>Can sophomores do add/drop before the freshmen select their classes?</p>
<p>Yes, usually every year for pre-registration it goes in class order (grads, seniors, juniors, sophs, freshmen). Add/Drop, however, is open to anyone, and class rank does not matter. I've found that for the most part, getting into classes has been independent of my class year (and more founded in the tenacity put towards getting into it), but I'm sure that if the class was required and you were an upperclassman, you would have preference over a freshman.
If you are coming in as a sophomore (transfer), however, it may work a certain way, and I'm sure the many transfers here can answer those questions.</p>
<p>You should know, though, that incoming freshman cannot do Add/Drop when it begins. Everyone else- incoming Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors- did pre-registration last spring, and Add/Drop will start sometime in mid-August at LEAST a week before freshman pre-registration even begins, so every non-freshman will have access to add/drop to modify their schedules before freshman even enroll in the first place.
I know that for some other colleges- Engineering and Ag are examples- you're pre-enrolled for classes. I can speak personally for the freshman Arts and Sciences experience. As someone else already said, it's a pain: you're assigned a time slot by your ID# (this # is on your Cornell ID, which you'll get on move-in day). You then travel to Goldwin Smith during your time slot (they're <em>very</em> strict about only letting you in when your slot begins). Different departments set up in different rooms, and you have to fill out your schedule on a piece of paper and get a personal signature from a person in each department for every course you write down. It's first come, first serve, and very competitive. (My advice: sign up for your math, bio, chem, or econ classes first; you'll get into the class itself easy enough- lectures are huge and there are many sections- but remember that many freshman schedules are inflexible, even though you yourself design them! You may, for example, only be able to accomodate a 10:10-11 or 2:30-3:20 math lecture. You want to make sure you don't get shut out of those time slots! If you do get shut out, at the very least you'll have to change your schedule around and at the most you might have to drop a class you want, and believe me, that is a big pain in the ass when you're scrambling for signatures.) Some departments don't even set up in Goldwin Smith- for example, my first semester I took a Geology class, and that department is located in Snee Hall- last building before Collegetown, past the Engineering quad- and I had to hike all the way there to get my signature.
Bottom line: you can't help your time slot. Some get lucky and some don't. What you CAN do to make your life a lot easier is make several possible schedules- USE schedulizer.com!!! That site is amazing for course scheduling- so that if you get shut out of one section or even one class, you have backup plans and you don't have to leaf through your course catalog at Goldwin Smith to find a different class while others are getting signatures.
Of course, that's just for Arts and Sciences students. Other students have an easier time of it :)</p>
<p>that's not true. add/drop is aug 22, which is the day before classes. so freshmen will choose their courses before everyone else can do add/drop. <a href="http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/</a></p>