<p>What happens when a course is dropped by the university? Well, it seems they just put you into another course (at least this is what happened for freshman English) without notifying you. Anybody else have the same experience?</p>
<p>Of course fixing it was as easy as dropping the course and registering for a different one. But it would have been nice to get a notification in order to have more time to make changes.</p>
<p>Was it a different section of the same course or a different course entirely?</p>
<p>Different section of the same course (same course number), but it was a special section that had a different textbook, field assignments, etc. compared to the original one.</p>
<p>My freshman daughter had a worse experience yesterday. She got an email from her adviser that her course had been changed due to a conflict and she is now in a totally different course (which she does not want). The topper is that today being Labor Day there is no adviser around to fix her schedule and classes start on Wednesday. So tomorrow morning before convocation she had to find an adviser and get it fixed. Mind you this schedule was in place since July 3rd and of course she had just purchased all her books and done a walk through of where all her classes are located. Needless to say she is now extremely stressed. Not a good way to help with the freshman college transition.</p>
<p>I am not butting in - my daughter is an adult now - but I feel the adviser totally mishandled this schedule change and would love to tell her that (she should have contacted the student first, discussed options, and together changed her schedule).</p>
<p>I was able to change the course online to a better section that was closer to the original course. I wonder if your daughter could do the same, assuming that another course is available, or is it one of the special courses that only the adviser can register?</p>
<p>I guess she can change it herself as a last resort - but incoming freshman were not told/allowed to do their own registration - their advisers did it all. Let’s hope tomorrow she can get this done with an adviser.</p>
<p>We were told something completely different. The adviser said just that - She is an adviser. Although she recommended going through her for changes, ultimately it is up to the student to decide what s/he registers for.</p>
<p>Maybe the difference is that my daughter is in the undeclared program (no major yet). Anyway an adviser straightened it all out this morning and put her in classes she wants.</p>