<p>Freshmen must take 5 classes. It takes 38 courses to graduate, so the BC plan is that everyone takes 5 courses each semester for the first three years and and take 4 senior year – leaving time free for a honors thesis, if desired, or internships. To ease the Frosh transition, search on PEPS for ‘easy’ profs.</p>
<p>prb: Perspectives is a double class, really two courses, or 40% of your first semester schedule. If 100 pages is too much, suggest you consider other courses.</p>
<p>pbb: Flagg is great, but it really depends on your language skills relative to the class. If you are really strong, it should be no problem. But, you might consider dropping down a language course to ease into Frosh year and ensure that you have the grammar to proceed to higher-level coursework. Just my $0.02.</p>
<p>I wonder how likely they will give you the professor you request? Also, on the PEPS front page, if the “workload” rating of the professor is lower, does it mean he has less workload? </p>
<p>Yes PRBC, lower workload score = less work.</p>
<p>You have to take 5 classes first semester (unless you take Perspectives, which I HIGHLY recommend)</p>
<p>The 100 pages of reading is a bit overblown, you’ll learn what of it is important and what isn’t. I haven’t taken a class except English and upper level history classes that require more than 50 pages a night.</p>
<p>Alright, that’s good advice bluebayou. I’ve been exploring other options and I have another question: There’s classes in the course catalog they mailed us that aren’t ones that show up in the course catalog on portal. Does that mean anything?
For example, RL 306 doesn’t show up in it.</p>
<p>Pb, that means that the class is full. On the Agora portal, you can change the course status to ‘all courses’ and the closed ones will be shaded. It is good to rely on this instead of the newspaper, because this will show you what classes are still open.</p>
<p>Ah, I never noticed the open/all courses option. Darn. I’ll keep an eye on those courses though, as they seem easier than the open one right now :P</p>
<p>What are the benefits of minor (besides getting more knowledge)? I know that we don’t get any degree by minoring, but does it say explicit on the transcript about what we minor in?</p>
<p>I just got back from Orientation and registered for my classes… I am taking Calc I on MWF10 and it says I have a discussion at TH3… I read somewhere that classes on T TH meet for 75 minutes instead of 50 minutes, so does that mean this discussion will be 75 minutes long also because I have a class scheduled for T TH 4, which would be a problem.</p>
<p>Only some TTh courses go for 75 minutes – they will have an asterisk on the calendar. Agora is usually pretty good at precluding a overlap of schedules, so you should be fine.</p>
<p>BCEagle92, you’ll be fine. Since Calc I is a 4-credit class, the class has to meet for 4 “hours” (“hour” = 50 minutes) during the week. The discussion group is your 4th meeting, so it’s the same length as the other meetings, irregardless of what day of the week on which your discussion group meets.</p>
<p>I have a question…I’m going to the last orientation (Aug. 28 or something), reserved for those outside the East Coast. I get to move in early too. What I’m scared of is since my orientation is so late, classes I may want to sign up for will be full. Does this happen? I don’t want to be stuck with bad professors just cause of the orientation I’m going to.</p>
<p>BC reserves xx slots in typical Frosh classes for every orientation. Thus, intro courses like Writing, math will be available on your registration day. However, “popular” professors may already be booked by upperclassmen, who are still fulfilling core requirements.</p>
<p>ok so i just found out that i got a 5 on my AP Calc exam so i decided to switch to Statistics, but i didnt have to sign up for a discussion like i did for calc… did i do something wrong or does statistics not have discussions?</p>