<p>For current emory students (or anyone who knows more about this than I do), what's the best way to pick a freshman seminar? And do you recommend taking it in the fall or spring, or is there really no difference? So far I've just scrolled through the entire list of them and picked out ones that seemed interesting to me, but were outside of the two majors I'm interested in pursuing, because I don't think the seminar can count toward my major. Then I tried to find out if the professors of that class were good or not from ratemyprofessors.com. Does that seem like a good way of going about it? </p>
<p>Oh, and one more quick question (sorry!)- are we supposed to download learnlink before we get to Emory or can we do it once we get there? thanks!</p>
<p>1) Doesn’t matter
2) Doesn’t matter, only go with interest. You have plenty of time to fulfill major requirements. Major requirements here are not demanding enough(only 9-10 courses specifically for the major in many cases) to justify choosing a seminar based upon whether or not you’ll get credit for your major not.<br>
3)No it’s not a good way to gauge it, especially for a seminar. The professor may be better in a seminar environment than a normal class (perhaps lecture), and lecture/traditional classes by X-professor will be over-represented on ratemyprofessor.<br>
3)Doesn’t matter if you download learnlink now or later though maybe better now for exploration purposes and viewing class comments (often better and more recent sample sizes than ratemyprof. Though emphasis is often too skewed towards issues about workload/difficulty as opposed to quality) which may or may not help with your seminar issue.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the advice, bernie! I’ll simply pick it out of interest then. thanks!</p>
<p>Just another thought… you might consider taking your freshmen seminar in the spring semester. In the fall, there was a mad rush to take the seminar and most of them got filled up very quickly, especially the more interesting ones. But if you find one that is really cool in the fall, go for it. It might take a bit of luck to get into the class though.</p>