<p>we tried to register for the orientation, but i’m not sure if it worked. guess there will be another call to admissions from me haha. i try not to leave my name, or they will get tired of me 
she would have to go june 21st or the last one because she wants to be a counselor for girl’s basketball camp like she does every year. so they’d better have plenty of room at the end. the early ones seem like kids will still be graduating etc. what major/school is your son in? and where are you from? we’re from oregon, and she’s in film.</p>
<p>Hi takes2muchtime,
We are from California and he will be majoring in one of the Life Sciences in the Seaver College of Science and Engineering. Housing website was fixed this morning so we did not need to call them-glad that is taken care of. Now on to Orientation-I understand it starts at 10 the first day and finishes up at 4 the second day. They meet with their adviser and register for classes the second day. This is sure getting exciting. Let me know if your orientation registration was successful. My son is waiting to hear back from a couple of teachers to see if he can reschedule a few finals-I don’t know why all the orientations are so early!</p>
<p>2down2ToGo,
I don’t know if you got orientation to work, but they told me to go to [Loyola</a> Marymount University](<a href=“http://www.lmu.edu%5DLoyola”>http://www.lmu.edu) and then search for “orientation” and follow links to register. it worked for me, you have to put down 3 choices, but i put june 21st, then june 23, and then june 21st again since those are the only dates that work for us. maybe you could just put june 23 three times…they said they would email confirmations the middle of next week. I have twins and we visited on preview day. both have some interest in sciences so we sought out different profs who were in their offfices. Profs from biology, physics and chemistry were extremely friendly and helpful giving advice and info and just seemed like they could talk to us forever. i was really impressed. A chemistry student (who could of passed for a surfer type haha) was working there saw that the girls were looking around, introduced himself and showed them around and answered questions, all without anyone asking him to. Again, really impressed with how friendly he was.</p>
<p>That was helpful, thank you! </p>
<p>My son was admitted to the film school for production, but after preview days, we LOVED the school, but the major didn’t feel like a fit. Every other school he applied to, he had applied to engineering, and fortunately LMU let him switch to engineering. </p>
<p>We didn’t visit the school of science and engineering, so it’s good to hear some postives.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, my daughter is also unsure about film production and is going to try some physics classes out because she’s also interested in engineering especially enviro engineering which is a concentration in civil engineering. (she may be in school for a while if she switches majors) haha. she’s going to give film a go and see if that’s what she wants to do. good to know that you can switch to engineering. she’s sort of concerned that the film students might be way more experienced and knowledgeable than she is. I’m curious why your son didn’t feel a good fit in the film program. Were you at the presentation in Seaver with the group of profs at the front?</p>
<p>“she’s sort of concerned that the film students might be way more experienced and knowledgeable than she is.”</p>
<p>Exactly! </p>
<p>This film interest is fairly new for him. It’s actually television that he is interested in, and I can’t see him holding his own with all the writing. He is much more a math and science guy, although he loves hands on projects and teamwork. I think it should remain an “extracurricular” for now, maybe through ROAR…but that’s just me…and my checkbook…</p>
<p>"Were you at the presentation in Seaver with the group of profs at the front? "</p>
<p>Yes! We were the ones not knowing what they were talking about, and notasking any questions…</p>
<p>haha. I was the one asking the question about if they could minor in something else! because it seemed liked film was alll they had time to do…problem is my daughter is into everything. she’s already planning on going to madagascar for a study abroad thing to save lemurs I hear they can also just come into the film department and volunteer to work on other people’s films especially the upper classmen’s who i guess really want and need help. she plans on doing that, maybe your son could do that for fun and an “extracurricular” and since money is no object at LMU…he could always do film for grad school! haha</p>
<p>Thanks for the orientation registration tips-much appreciated. My son is still checking with teachers to see if he can change some finals to attend an earlier session. He is pretty swamped right now with all his IB/AP tests that started in full force today. I have been impressed with Seaver since our first visit to LMU. Like you said the professors and students are so welcoming and genuine!</p>