<p>Just wondering if anyone did this yet today? My son was in the first group to begin registration at 10 AM.... and it was a very frustrating process. He finally found a terrific person on the phone to walk him through & pass on some "secret" tips. When he'd only gotten in to only 3 of his initial 8 choices (none of them being classes he was remotely interested in), she congratulated him! and said he did better than most people do at their first pass through. </p>
<p>So... parents & incoming freshmen.... please share your experiences.</p>
<p>My hint: don't give up too soon, and use the "search" feature next to the "submit" button. It saves a step.</p>
<p>Any other tips? I've read through the pdf guide they have, but it still seems that with so many kids registering it would be impossible to get the classes you want. </p>
<p>The main thing I picked up is that if you know the codes of the classes you want, you enter those directly all at once and hope for the best... It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.</p>
<p>If you don't mind me asking, what classes did he get and not get?</p>
<p>best tip, be patient. And have more than the 8 choices they recommend, and pick different sections. When do you register? Today? Monday?</p>
<p>He got Beginning Hebrew, Environmental Geology, UW20, Math & Politics, Into to Ameri Studies & Studio News Production. Didn't get any Poli Sci, or History, even though he had several choices. Jewish Studies not available for online registration. He wanted SMPA 50 -- required if you want to apply to their school. The class was open, but all 10 discussion groups were closed. There are about 90 sections of UW20 -- he tried probably 25 of them till he found one that fit his schedule and was available. </p>
<p>I actually had no problem registering whatsoever. I woke up at 7 am to do it, and I'm not sure if that made a big difference or not by being one of the first to sign up. I got all of my first choices. I'm taking UW20 (the constitution one), Biological Anthropology, Micro Econ, and Spanish. Because UW, Biological Anthropology, and Spanish are all 4 credit classes, I couldn't take a 5th class because it would push me above 17 credits.</p>
<p>If I were you, I'd wake up early to sign up as well. I know that each date has a certain number of open spaces, so it makes sense that whoever signs up the first would get their top choices.</p>
<p>Does anyone rermember reading something about freshmen being required to register for a non-credit "Academic Advising" course. I didn't see it anywhere on First Class. I think it's called a "Proseminar." Did anyone come across this??</p>
<p>Just finished registering. I woke up early too, and only got one class that I wanted. Sucks....I'm actually really mad because I worked so hard to create this schedule based on so many factors. Im not even taking UW20 which I wanted to take out of the way...It's ridiculous. Do any of you know, is it possible that some classes may open or something?</p>
<p>Hollywood and Politics Dean's Seminar, Understanding the Theatre (I hate this...GCR), The New Testament (I hate this too...GCR), Intro-International Politics PolSci 003 (according to ratemyprofessor.com this is the worst teacher to have and above that it's not polsci 001), Modrn Hebrew Literary Classics (only thing that was open...), Intro-Business & Economic Stat ( ohh...and I looove this class...sarcasm). I shouldn't have even done first class...just slap some crappy classes on there...</p>
<p>This is crazy... I woke up at 7am to register and got all my first choices, except a Spanish course that I already knew was closed and was praying a space would open... nope.</p>
<p>I can't believe you guys had so much trouble.. were you trying to get into regular classes or smaller, random ones?</p>
<p>Hey, I'm really sorry you had so much trouble with it, that really sucks. I think classes open back up during July, so hopefully people will drop out of them then, and I bet your advisor at CI will be able to help out. Also, I think someone on here (gwcurrentstudent maybe?) said that it's pretty easy to just walk into a class once classes actually start, or something like that, I don't really remember.</p>
<p>I've seen you guys referring to UW20 with "topics"? Did my we miss something on this end? Were there choices? My son was just happy to get into any of them. The first 20 he tried were closed!</p>
<p>My daughter registered and had no problems. In fact, we were suspicious because it was "too" easy. She printed out her schedule because she thought she might have to prove to someone that she really did register. That being said, I hope she chose the right classes. What is UW20? oops, we missed that one. She got the Dean's Seminar-Washington Sex Scandals, Biological Anthropology and the lab, Communications 190-The Rhetoric of Leadership, English Literature 052, and intro to Logic/Phil 045. Do these sound okay to the curent students?</p>
<p>oops.... he didn't know about the topic-specific uw20s. he's not too thrilled with artists in urban life. he's hoping he'll be able to change it. now why didn't he know this?????? I think an advisor would have helped.</p>
<p>that's what we're hoping. but there really weren't a lot of choices. At the time, he was just excited to have gotten one that wasn't closed out!</p>
<p>In response to a much older post, I'm registering on the 7th. </p>
<p>Caeserslaw, why did you want psc001 so much more than psc003? I was hoping to get psc003 over 001 personally.</p>
<p>Pretty much all of the freshmen oriented classes say they are closed in the class schedule list - this isn't necessarily true, right? Won't they will release new spots every single registration day?</p>