Engineering Course Registration (Freshman)

<p>Son received his registration packet, but it doesn't specify a date/time as I've seen others mention...it just says log on to YES and register June 10-28. Did any VUSE students get an actual date/time assigned?</p>

<p>Also, The Road to Vanderbilt states that a VUSE academic advisor will work with students in the summer to select first semester courses. Is son supposed to contact him? The registration packet just instructs him to select his own classes and doesn't mention advising.</p>

<p>Son is not sure how to schedule since AP credit should cover all but the Freshman Engineering Seminar in the first year CS specimen curriculum plus he already has AP credit for his liberal arts courses. However, the sophomore level CS classes have his senior year AP classes as prerequisites and he won't get those scores until July.</p>

<p>Lastly, and primarily why I'm posting here...any CS majors care to comment his planned first semester schedule? Assuming he can enroll: Data structures, Digital logic, Physics or MV Calculus, and Engineering seminar. (HS only offered Physics B - he did get a 5 on that and 800 on SAT2, so he has some physics knowledge, but I dont know how helpful it is with General Physics. HS also only offered Calc AB, but he self taught and took the BC exam...he's hoping for a 4. HE seems to think he would be fine going into MV.) I don't want him getting in over his head his first semester. Will this schedule be overly time consuming? Digital logic lab and physics lab a bad idea to take in the same (first) semester? Is AP CS decent preparation to go right into Data structures? He'd like to minor in Spanish, but in HS Spanish was more work for him than science/math courses, so I don't know if taking a Spanish course first semester would be better or worse!</p>

<p>His registration day should be shown on YES even if it’s not in his packet. Top right corner when on the enrollment system. Maybe have him ask on the Facebook page if other engineers were assigned dates.</p>

<p>My year, for some reason we weren’t assigned advisers until after registration. I think it was unintentional… On the YES landing page (the one with son’s picture), it will show the name of his academic adviser if he has been assigned. But yes, it is typically the student’s responsibility to reach out to the adviser. If he can’t locate his adviser and wants to discuss schedule, just look at the department’s staff and pick someone to contact, I’m sure they’ll all be very helpful or point you to someone who can help.</p>

<p>Not being a CS major, I can only speak for a few of those courses. CS101 is truly just basic programming structure. Assuming he’s got a solid foundation in Java from AP CS, he should be fine. CS201 isn’t too tough and Roth is a great professor. </p>

<p>Physics is not terribly time consuming. Multivariable is a tough course (but so is 155A/B so whichever he feels comfortable with). </p>

<p>Overall it sounds like a lot of engineering courses for his first semester. The point of accepting all this AP credit is to make the course load lighter for 4 years, not to finish in 3!</p>

<p>As a parent of an incoming engineering student, we were told that he would not be assigned an advisor until later in the summer. In most cases, the course selection for the first semester is chem, math, engineering 140 and another class. Because of this a phone discussion didn’t provide much. </p>

<p>Since your son’s situation is different, I’d recommend that he call the student services office in the school of engineering and discuss options. We have found them to be very helpful. </p>

<p>S and I had fun going through the catalog looking for that other class that he might enjoy. It’s really an opportunity to explore another interest. Those AP credits make it easier to take what you are interested in versus a class to fill the liberal arts requirement.</p>

<p>Thanks for the replies. No intention to graduate in three, but he does want to do a year abroad, so that would mean doing most all of the CS/Math classes in three, plus the Spanish courses. When we visited, they made it sound like saving the elective courses for the abroad year was the way for engineering majors, so I guess he’ll have to wait to explore other interests in Spain/ South America. </p>

<p>If he goes by the date on YES, it looks like he has the first day for registration. There is a name for an advisor in the registration book, Go9ers, at least in his there is. However, I think sometimes the students that are actually more informative since they’re in the trenches.</p>

<p>So he will do CS201 for sure. Still not sure about the rest. It’s hard to pick a reasonable first semester schedule when all the comments on ratemyprofessor say it’s impossible/tough to get an A in EVERY class he needs!</p>

<p>MommyDearest13 -I’m letting go of my “expectation” to see A’s on his report card. We’re telling son to do his best and pass his classes. As an engineer myself and one that hires engineers, I’d like to see a 3.0 and above a 3.25 is fantastic.</p>

<p>No expectation of getting mostly A’s, but he needs to get SOME A’s. Hes not sure about grad school, so GPA is somewhat important. Doesn’t sound like it’s gonna be easy though.</p>

<p>^^
All my A’s were in non-major (chemical engineering) classes. Pick those electives wisely. : )</p>