<p>I'm also going to be a freshman... she can hope for the best I suppose, I'm not sure if Quest courses were available for pre-registration, maybe just within the specific fields that were available for pre-registration. But Quest courses are only for freshman I believe, so she may have some luck there. Dance she'll prolly be able to get into as well, I don't know what the cap for those classes are, but I doubt they're absurdly small. If she's getting that worried about it, she can try speaking with the instructor to get let in past the cap if it comes to that. And if she has to, she can do it after first semester, when registration is done on the computer; to my understanding, it's just registration first semester that's a pain.</p>
<p>But thanks for that PDF, I had not seen it before, only the preliminary one.</p>
<p>Chedva, Most schools pro-rate the availability of classes so the later kids don't get the raw end of the deal. But, of course, freshmen are at a disadvantage at every school. Ha. </p>
<p>Good luck and a welcome for your daughter to Rochester. Let's hope for an easy winter. Ahhh.</p>
<p>My s was also in the last group of kids to register. He met with his optics advisor on Thursday and registered on Friday without a hitch. He has signed up for 19 credits and aiming for 3 club activities. He is happy as a clam and I am hoping he will not be overwhelmed. At any rate, I don't hear too many students complaining about shutting out of classes. They may not get their favorite CAS 105 classes but it sounds like there are many choices for that course. We were told that tUR uses caps that gets moved every hour during the registration hours and the last group to sign up this year will be the first next year. So with that rotation, next semester will be easier for those end-of-year babies.</p>
<p>Wow, BandW; I didn't think that freshmen were allowed to register for that many credits! Anyway, it all worked out for my d. She got all the classes that she wanted, except a dance class that was already closed before the freshmen even got there.</p>
<p>Chedva, the rotation bit was one of the things that made me glad that I attended some of the parent orientation programs.</p>
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<li><p>Rotation of the registration groups</p></li>
<li><p>Each course in the school has a librarian assigned to it. The class librarian is one who has advanced degree in the particular field and if they have been there a LONG time they may even know the particular professor's expectations. Two years ago only the students were told about this during orientation but it was one of those 'obscure' facts that they forgot and did not make use of often enough. (My older son certainly did not.) So now the librarians are telling the parents so the students will find out when they call home to complain or cry about their papers. I think it is a great tactics on the part of the librarian to let the parents know so that the students will hear it when they are receptive. I am glad that we got up early the day after move-in to have breakfast with the librarians.</p></li>
<li><p>First semester credit load cap is 19. If they can get a 3.0 gpa for the first semester (regardless of load, as long as it is full-time), the sky is the limit as far as credit load is concerned for the second semester.</p></li>
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<p>Any interesting tidbits you picked up during orientation? </p>
<p>How many CC parents stayed for the entire parents orientation? We stayed for a day and a half. We would have stayed for the full two days if we hadn't gotten lost during our walk in Mount Hope cemetery.</p>
<p>Thanks, BandW. We missed the librarians breakfast, but attended most of the other sessions. And we took d and a friend out to dinner.</p>
<p>One of the things we did pick up was the "club" vs. "declining dollars" on the meal plans. It's something that's not at all clearly explained in any of the literature we got.</p>
<p>Apparently, club meals don't carry over from semester to semester, while declining dollars do. Danforth (in Sue B) takes only club meals, so there's no problem there. And it's all you can eat. Students can use 6 clubs/day, and some can be for visitors.</p>
<p>Douglass Dining Center, Hillside Cafe, and the Pit in Wilson Commons are either club or declining dollars. There's supposed to be a sign at each location indicating which sandwich/entree, side dish & drink qualifies as a club meal. (The drink needs to be a fountain type drink; bottled sodas don't count.) If you don't choose the club combination, you pay with declining dollars on a dollar-by-dollar basis. The cashier is supposed to ask whether you want to use club or declining, but when we ate at the Pit, she didn't. Students are advised to use club meals before declining dollars.</p>
<p>It's really confusing, and I will be e-mailing the Dining Hall people that there should be something (like the "where to eat" brochure kids are given) that explains all of this. (Unless someone else can point me to it!)</p>
<p>Chedva, the declining dollars are transferable from fall to spring semester but NOT from one year to the next. So at the end the spring term you may see a lot of people buying up the store. One family I know is now set for the year with Nutella (a chocolate hazelnut spread) from last year's declining dollars. Another one has been eating Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies all summer. :-)</p>