<p>okay, im a little confused.. how exactly do freshman get to pick classes for the fall? is it really first come first serve for your entire schedule? i was looking at the GE's left open today, and if that is just from one orientation session, then those of us who don't even go until august seem a little screwed. i thought UCLA would have something more fair--maybe like picking in rounds or something, i don't know. do us late orientation-ers even get any classes?</p>
<p>some classes are popular among upper classmen and we do pick first... after that it just depends on how early your orientation is, orientation is the only time you get to pick all your classes at once, after this you can only sign up for 10 units so pretty much half of your schedule at a time... also I heard they'll open up more lectures during later orientations so people can get classes</p>
<p>yes. if ur at a later session say end of july or god forbid august! ur gonna spend fall quarter sitting in ur room twiddling ur thumbs. u might be able to squeeze an extra stool in a lecture hall and get some sorta location but dont expect to be able to take any classes.</p>
<p>A lot of the time the classes freshman wanna take won't be required by upperclassmen, so it all works out.</p>
<p>but once they open up those lectures anyone from any previous orientations can immediately sign up too, so if theyre diligent enough to keep on top of the sign-ups, they can just sign up while most people in that same orientation are waiting in line to sign up</p>
<p>its kind of fair though since they did allow everyone to sign up for orientation at the same time so the early bird gets the worm</p>
<p>well if the early orientation kids sign up for new lectures they have to drop their old classes... which opens up spots...</p>
<p>but they would only drop classes they wouldnt want to begin with, leaving only undesired classes remaining which is what most people in the late orientation end up getting</p>
<p>this isnt a terribly big problem unless youre the last of the last or close, and even then im sure its not that bad broadening your horizon your first quarter with some classes you may never have considered. you might actually find something youd end up enjoying from it all</p>
<p>When would you say an orientation session is "late"? 104? 105? 110? When does it get desperate? I'm a bit worried, with 105. I don't think it's fair that they opened up sign-ups at 9am while I was in school in an important class I couldn't miss for orientation registration. Most classes I want are large, so I should be fine, but Engl 4W is already nearly full.</p>
<p>Well, English 4W was nearly full because of upperclassmen.</p>
<p>Speaking of opening sign-ups at 9am, the first lecture we had they joked about how every one of us probably ditched our classes to sign up for the orientation 101. For me, I was just lucky as my teacher took us into the computer lab that period when the sign-ups were up.</p>
<p>For some majors, it simply doesn't matter as much. If you're a history major, it should be no sweat getting into your classes. Lower-division life science majors do OK with getting Chemistry/Math classes I think even if they're wait-listed. People drop fairly quickly. Political Science majors are kinda screwed if they have the later orientation sessions. What is your major, OP?</p>
<p>If you get wait-listed for a class you want is it likely that you'll be able to eventually get it? </p>
<p>I was hoping to take a language, but the one that I want already no longer has any open classes and since the first quarter of languages only seem to be available fall quarter, I'm worried that I will have to wait a whole year just to take the class.</p>
<p>It depends on the type of class, I have no experience with language classes so I'm not sure. Basically, it boils down to you being persistent, checking the registrar for drops, e-mailing the departmental enrollment counselor, e-mailing the prof, and doing whatever you can. Check after the 20th (when URSA money is due, people get dropped from their classes), and other key dates - go and attend class during 1st week so they know you're interested etc. Some professors will make announcements that might mislead the flakes into abandoning their quest, but you have to be diligent about it.</p>
<p>i think they let a lot of language waitlists in...but yeah me, and quite a few other people i know taking languages are taking it sophomore year, so i think most people do wait the year. but they do seem to be flexible with letting people in since like u said it's once a year.</p>
<p>i'm an undeclared major, but going towards the social sciences/humanities direction. I also wanted to take a lot of the random classes, like history of american cinema, just to see what's out there, but I can tell those are small and popular and going to be out of my reach. hopefully winter quarter will be better..</p>
<p>For certain classes, you're pretty ****ed with a late orientation session.</p>
<p>yea, well you can think of it this way, you have four more years to take those classes, juniors, seniors etc only have one or two.</p>
<p>Humanities classes won't be difficult to get into as long as they're not Writing II courses. Social science courses are OK to get into as long as they aren't political science courses.</p>
<p>LISTEN. for all the popular classes, aka econ (except econ 41, cuz no one gives a **** and you can take it out of sequence), poli sci, etc. u pretty much screwed if you dont have priority, much less waiting till orientation. but all is not lost. pick GEs...get them out of the way. i was in 104 last year, barely got in engcomp 3 lecture 38...</p>
<p>now that i think about it...science majors got it easy cuz their pre-reqs take care of science GEs...history majors got history GEs...art majors got art GEs, we econ majors got to take ALL 10 waste-of-time GEs.and PLUS like 25 more econ courses, almost 40 if you wanna minor in accounting...HORRIBLE</p>
<p>ok maybe not 25 all econ, cuz some are calculus and stuff, but still, the total is about right</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm still getting over the fact I have to take 4 science classes (w/ 2 labs) as an English major. My consolation: no math! And Engl 10A counts for a GE.</p>