<p>I will be attending Vanderbilt this fall as a freshman. Recently, I received a packet regarding course registration, and it gave me a week to call my summer adviser regarding my first semester courses. Somehow, however, I missed this fact, and the week I was scheduled to call my adviser has passed (June 8 to 12). I cannot register for courses without an adviser code, which I was supposed to receive during my appointment with my adviser. What should I do? Should I contact him and ask him to see me now after my appointment week?</p>
<p>Call him…</p>
<p>For future reference, you don’t need to impress these people, you’re obviously at least a halfway decent kid. Just be courteous, apologize if he was expecting your call. Easy.</p>
<p>As far as I know, registration lasts until the 26th and there isn’t any benefit for registering earlier or later during the registration process - it’s your grade level and major that will determine what likelihood you have of being bumped off a section of a course that is too full. I’m starting this fall, too, so I may not know anything, but that’s what I got from the information I read.</p>
<p>dshinka:
although registration lasts until the 26th, there was a piece of paper you should have gotten from vandy specifying a week to call your summer academic adviser (at least this is how it works for the arts and science college, i dont know about the other ones). basically this person is supposed to help you set up a fall course schedule (some are helpful and some arent). however, in order to register for classes you have to have your advisors code that they give you when you talk to them whatever your designated week is, so you might want to look over your stuff once more.</p>
<p>zmoose27:
i completely agree with the first poster. if you think about it, some people go on extended family vacations and could have missed the letter that told them when to call and were still gone the week they were supposed to call that adviser. i bet vandy would be accommodating if you called either your advisor or (if you cant get him) vandy directly and i bet they would work something out with you. good luck.</p>
<p>thanks everyone for the responses, I’ll post the eventual outcome…</p>
<p>Check your Vandy email. Your advisor should have sent out one or two mass emails, or at least mine did telling me to contact him for any concerns I had. I was able to do my registration over email with exceptional feedback and support a week before my scheduled appointment period.</p>
<p>Uh… last week was my advising period too and the guy specifically told me I couldn’t call back, he’s not going to be working the desk after the 12th.</p>
<p>Don’t feel too bad, we all do stupid crap. E.g.: I used the green postage-paid envelope to send back a random form before I found the piece of paper that said it should be used for my high school transcript. D: I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll alllll be okay.</p>
<p>For the OP, you should be fine,unless your advisor is on vacation and won’t return until after the 26th. If you send him/her an email about this, if they are unavailable or unreachable, they may have their email set up to indicate this in an autoreply. If this is the case, just call the registrar’s office. They are here to help, after all!</p>
<p>Yes, we’ve heard people say that as Vandy’s admissions criteria change, the “social intelligence” on campus and according to some the “looks” too will go downhill a little, but wowzorz…</p>
<p>Wait, you missed your week time slot appointment with your advisor? Shoot, I would pray admissions doesnt call you about that, seriously, I have seen kids rescinded because of that.</p>
<p>My advisor said he will speak to me next week despite my missed appointment! =) </p>
<p>Once again, thanks everyone for your responses, and hopefully, I don’t get rescinded like dirthog says I might.</p>
<p>haha you won’t get rescinded. Even if you don’t turn in your course requests by the 26th you can still do it later, but you might not get the courses you want. Just read that yellow sheet titled Registration Instruction and Checklist for New Students Fall, 2009.</p>