<p>Orientation feedback. All in all it went very well. My daughter got most the classes she wanted (she had done research into times and professors - honors college has them listed). She got along with her advisor well and took her advise on what types of classes to take. She was pleased - so I am pleased! We set up a bank account (did this on our own) because our banks aren’t in SC - there is an ATM in the dorm so that will be convenient. Break out sessions were informative and pretty intimate (we had 16 parents in the group). I did feel somewhat sorry for the student leaders during the parent question and answer time - some of the parents kept asking questions about alcohol and safety. A couple questions are OK but it went on too long. But the kids did a very nice job of answering the questions. We were done with everything that we needed to do at about 3:00 and would love to have been able to see the dorms earlier than the scheduled 4:10 tour because we had a 8 hour drive ahead of us - I asked and was told that we had to wait - not a huge deal but I am tired today!!!</p>
<p>If anyone has any specific questions - feel free to ask.</p>
<p>^ Since it’s been somewhat mentioned, the on campus Credit Union is great. Carolina Collegiate doesn’t charge students fees, and it’s very convenient. They have a branch in Russel House open 6 days a week, and there is “shared branching” meaning you can bank with over 4,000 other credit unions as well, for deposits, withdraws, transfers etc. </p>
<p>Do most of the majors meet with their advisors during orientation? A girl from my d s high school attended orientation yesterday but did not get to meet with an advisor and was confused picking her classes? Do most majors get to meet with an advisor from their particular major?.. ESP if they r trying to get prerequisites for an upper level?</p>
<p>^ NJMOM3 - When we went, my son said it was a classroom of Nursing majors (@ 20 ) and there was one advisor who reviewed all the requirements, including Nursing courses - they require 2 particular NSG courses your freshman year- you can either take them both now, both next semester or 1 each. She also reviewed AP credit, Math and FL placement test scores (what to take depending on your scores). Then they went to a computer lab to sign up for classes. The advisor was there the whole time to assist and answer questions.</p>
<p>/\ thanks Coleman 4… That s good to know. I think this girl is in a general science major so perhaps that’s why she didn’t have a specific advisor. One more question for you… Do you know if you have English 101 and 102 as dual credits on a college transcript does that also transfer over? It appears to… Just wondered if the advisor covered that. Thanks for all your help… I always stress over all of this!</p>
<p>@NJMOM3: When I went, the advisers knew nothing about what to do with dual enrollment credits and trancripts. If you findout, let me know please!</p>
<p>Aristrutz523… I definitely will…we aren’t going until the 18th but I’m hoping she has someone who is up to date on that. My older daughter ,who is at a different college in Virginia was originally told to take a bunch of credits as a freshman that she already had through our community college. Eventually she was able to get the credits transferred… Had she not been on top of it she would have literally repeated several courses that we had already paid for once! I have learned you have to be on top of everything.I’ll let you know what happens when we go.</p>
<p>My daughter met one on one with her advisor and they did her schedule during that meeting. Her advisor was an Honors College advisor that worked with all the pre pharm majors (maybe other majors too). Of course, I was not with her, but my dd13 felt very comfortable that she got the required courses. She wanted to get Stats but it didn’t fit into her schedule so they put her in Econ that is really a second or third semester class. The pre-pharmacy curriculumn is very easy to understand what is required so maybe it was easier for my daughter - she had done the research before going and knew exactly what to ask for and what “plan B” would be.</p>
<p>Yes that’s really nice that she got to have a one on one mtg. That’s one of the reasons I wish my d had applied for honors college… She was worried about it being too much but I do like that one on one attention. I worry they fall through the cracks otherwise.</p>
<p>NJMOM3 - I don’t know about duel credits as my son didn’t have any. And English is not his strength so he decided to just take honors level English and focus on his AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Stat, and AP Calc AB/BC. He asked about AP credit since they don’t get those scores until July and was told to hold off on signing up for courses where AP credit could apply (i.e. AP Stat) with the expectation that they’ll place out with the AP scores. He had plenty else to sign up for - including English for him, so it was fine. </p>
<p>One advice we heard and was helpful is to look at the course list and the Nursing curriculum ahead of time and try to write up a “potential” schedule. My son did this and he only had to make 1 change- removed the STAT once he realized he could place out of that, pending his AP Stat exam score, and instead added one of the Nursing courses: NSG 212- Evolution of Nursing Science. The 2 NSG courses they expect you to complete your freshman year are NSG 212 and NSG 226: Socio-Cultrl Var/Health & Illness, which he plans to take in the spring.</p>
<p>Coleman 4… Thanks for the additional info. She’s been looking closely at the curriculum sheet the last couple days. I told her to just not sign up for anything that she has AP or dual credits for at this point as we can always change that later. She has AP bio too but I’m assuming they can’t really use that for anything other than an elective possibly. Thanks for the info on the nursing courses. We were wondering which ones they wanted done initially.</p>
<p>^^I think I would call admissions or someone about dual enrollment before you come and get a name and number of the person you speak to. You don’t have to take classes in question the first semester if you need to get it straightened out in the fall. Sometimes at orientation they don’t have the regular advisors. D was advised in honors by someone who usually didn’t advise her original major and we had to fix some stuff (ended up by phone later in summer with actual honors advisor who was great!). Even if you turned it in when you applied, it can’t hurt to bring your own copies of AP results from last year and transcript for dual credit (if you have it) with you.</p>
<p>Even if your AP credits end up being elective credit, they will still help since total credit hours are used to give priority for registration times for upcoming semesters, housing lottery and sports ticket lottery.</p>
<p>Thanks scmom12… I do have the transcript from all the previous classes as well as the registration form for her senior classes taken. Unfortunately, since she doesn’t graduate until the 14 th we won’t have the entire transcript with us on the 18th. I will have her bring everything we possibly can with us. I think I will call admissions this week as well. Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Once you’re actually admitted into USC, Admissions is a lot less helpful. As far as dual enrollment, I ended up emailing someone about one of my courses this year from Converse College (a four year women’s college). I had taken the class senior year and it showed up on my transcript at USC, but it just transferred as “Unknown”.</p>
<p>For dual enrollment, you should request a transcript from the college and have it sent to USC’s registrar’s office. Once it gets there, they’ll update your transcript and it’ll probably show up as Unknown. Then you should email the Dean’s Office of your school. (In my case, I emailed someone from the CAS.) </p>
<p>Here is how simple my request was:
“I took Public Speaking as a dual enrollment course at Converse College during my senior year of high school. I was wondering how I would go about getting credit for that course as Speech 140.”</p>
<p>The response: “I will take care of it. It is listed as UNKN, but I’ll have it posted as SPCH 140. Should occur in the next few days.”</p>
<p>It was really that simple. I didn’t have to provide any proof that it was the same coursework or anything. I think they’re pretty lenient.</p>
<p>And it really isn’t that important to have it all settled this summer. Like I said, I didn’t send that email until this year. If you don’t get it figured out this summer, then stop in at your Dean’s Office this fall once you’re actually on campus. There are plenty of required classes to take that timing usually isn’t an issue. Freshman year is really the most flexible time for class scheduling.</p>