<p>Did anyone on cc go to the orientation yesterday and today? If so, please post what you wish you had known/done before you went. (I think it's fair to say that most people know to bring health forms and take the math placement beforehand.)</p>
<p>How was the advising? </p>
<p>Did you have trouble getting the classes/sections/schedule you wanted? </p>
<p>I thought I've read on some threads that they open a few seats in sections of popular classes - is that true? (Right now, it looks like no sections with Dixon for CHEM135 have availability...)</p>
<p>Make sure and read all the “what to bring to orientation” lists (and make sure that your parent(s) who are coming do, as well). The people on CC are usually not the ones who show up clueless to orientation, though!</p>
<p>Well they’re gonna have to open more CHEM 135 classes or let more people into the existing ones… There are only 16 seats left in ALL of the sections and there are still a bunch of orientation dates.</p>
<p>Yeah you can. You should look for an i series that fufills a distrubitive requirement you need. For example I needed to get a humanities reqiurement done, but wanted an i series requirement done too so I picked RUSS289I, The Power of the Word: Freedom of Speech in U.S. and Russia. Just make sure you have around 16 credits by the time your schedule is done for the fll</p>
<p>Just thought that I would let you guys know this. I just called the advising office at Clark, and I found out that if we have credit for Chem 131/132, then we DO NOT have to take Chem 135/136.:)</p>
<p>mrphysics, so you only need a 4 on AP Chemistry to get credits for CHEM135??!! Why didn’t they tell me that? It would be so awesome if it’s true!</p>
<p>@mrphysics, you only schedule for the semester, but you do learn how to plan for future (what you will need to graduate - both from the university standpoint and your particular college/degree program).</p>
<p>@oceannicole, check out testudo, they did open CHEM135! It was probably closed to “reserve” it for freshman. </p>
<p>What is good to know in advance? They take your student ID photo at the VERY END of day 2, so if it’s raining, you’ll have a very bad photo because you are soaked, and if it’s ungodly hot, your hair will be matted down with sweat and if it’s really humid, your hair will be frizzy, etc, etc.–so plan on a bad ID! :p</p>
<p>And yes, there were some maroons who didn’t do the math placement exam beforehand, despite everyone saying to do it (including a reminder email from the university reminding them to do it - for those that hadn’t done it as of a week prior to registration), and that created issues for those poor suckers. </p>
<p>FYI, once you get signed off on being approved to schedule your classes from orientation, you are free to change (add/drop) any classes throughout the summer. So, no worries if you either didn’t get what you wanted, or change your mind about a class or two - it’s not a make or break situation that you are “stuck” with whatever you register for at the orientation. </p>
<p>Also, fyi, at scholars orientations they give out drawstring bags with University of Maryland Class of 2016 on them to all the students, as well as free tshirts from bookstore.</p>
<p>I have a quick question about what classes to take for engineering students. Do we start off taking ENES100 Intro to Engineering Design, or ENES102 MechanicsI in our fall semester? I have gone to several sites and each site says something different.</p>
<p>mrphysics the sample schedule on the bioengineering website says to take ENES100 first semester and then ENES102 second semester. I’m not positive, but I assume they’ll clear it all up at orientation!</p>
<p>@cv1214,
Yes, if you got a 4 on AP Chemistry, you get CREDIT for CHEM131 and CHEM132, but the engineering school will EXEMPT you from CHEM135. You can only get credit for either 131 or 135 anyways. If you get a 5 on AP Chemistry, you also get exemption from CHEM136, although that is not required for some engineering majors.</p>
<p>@oceanicole,
Don’t worry about CHEM135 being full at the moment, they open up spots every single orientation date. I did some research, and looked at Fall 2011, Fall 2010, and Fall 2009, and they’ve consistently have had about 45-50 spots per section for CHEM135, so no worries!</p>
<p>@mrphysics - it depends on which “bio” engineering you are majoring in - chemical and biomedical engineers take ENES102 first, but bioengineering take ENES100 first – understandable confusion. Biomedical engineers do not take ENES102, but bioengineers do.</p>
<p>There is a difference between biomedical engineering and bioengineering. So, if you didn’t notice there were two distinct “bio” engineering options, you may have looked up one on the first site but clicked on the other on a different site, thus creating the impression of conflicting information. Which one did you choose as your major?</p>
<p>@yodelo, I had a good chuckle at your answer. I hope you can also laugh at my inability to resist temptation of the opportunity to point out your use of a link (to information found online) rather than giving an actual answer… I hope you now understand why I often do that…:)</p>
<p>Thank you both for your replies. Son has not received his AP Chemistry score yet, and I really hope a 4 score would be sufficient for CHEM135. Somehow looking at his degree navigator account, this thickhead is interpreting a score of 5 is required for CHEM135, and you can only claim either 132 or 135, depending on your major requirement, not both.</p>
<p>@cv,
Yes, my bad XD A 4 exempts you from CHEM136 and 5 Exempts you from CHEM135/136</p>
<p>See the link below for the 2012 Engineering Pre-Orientation Video that explains.
[Freshmen</a> Student Pre-OrientationVideo.mp4 - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>@maryversity,
I posted the link because I didn’t know which bioengineering he was doing. I had a little spaz attack myself making sure the words “GIVES CREDIT” and “EXEMPTS FROM” were capitalized in my last post to make sure there were no confusion <3</p>
<p>This isn’t on the topic of orientation, but I was hoping you guys discussing AP credit could help me clear something up: If a 5 on calc AB merits 4 credits and a 5 on BC merits 8 credits, do I get 12 credits for 5s on both (yes, I know it sounds like I’m horrible at adding for someone who can do calculus)? I’m worried because I just looked at the chart again and the AB credit is for MATH140, while the BC credit is for MATH140 & MATH141, so it seems there’s no way to get double credit for MATH140. Which would stink because I worked [sorta] hard and paid good money for those 4 credits!</p>
<p>For those that have taken the Math Placement Exam - did you receive some sort of confirmation that it had been completed - for example an email notification. My son completed it - but how can you verify that it all went through before Orientation - without some sort of confirmation or at least a notification on the page itself. Thanks!</p>
I hope you now understand why I often do that…:)</p>
You can’t double count them.</p>