Orientation tomorrow...

<p>I don't know...we didn't get one on one time in Business at least.</p>

<p>Yea, they basically have a bunch of roaming advisors milling about the room. If you need help, you raise your hand and they come see you.</p>

<p>That becomes one-on-one time in a sense, but only if you request it.</p>

<p>Do you sign up on computers? How many students are registering at one time? Thanks!</p>

<p>once you get your advisement hold lifted you can register or change your schedule at any time online. D-clearances, except in your major department, are not granted by your advisor traditionally anyway.</p>

<p>Probably you didn't meet with your specific department advisor because the advice for freshman is pretty generic (i.e., complete your GE's)</p>

<p>If you do want to meet your department advisor personally just find out who they are (often posted on the department's website) and email them. They are always willing to help, either remotely or on-campus.</p>

<p>Yep, you sign up on computers.</p>

<p>Students initially get seperated by their major.</p>

<p>I was with the business group, so I can only speak for them.</p>

<p>They gave us a green sheet where we filled out which classes we wanted to take. When you finished deciding which classes you wanted to take, you go get it signed off by an advisor. Most everyone had Writ-140 and a Cat VI Social Issues Course (These are required to be taken together) For our cohort, we either had to have Math-118x (Business Calc) or BUAD-340 (Organizational Behavior) The fourth class is up to you. If you decide to have a 5th class, it is usually a 2-unit freshman seminar or some other special program or "fun" class. </p>

<p>After filling out the green sheet, students are taken up to a computer lab, where you actually input your classes. In my computer lab, there were about 30 students at a time. There might have been other computer labs, I'm not sure.</p>

<p>One thing that is great is that you can always go back and change your classes. I can log on to web registration and change my classes now if I prefer, so there is no pressing time limit.</p>

<p>Because I was in the first Orientation, all the classes I need to sign up for had plenty of space, but this may not be the case for later Orientations sessions.</p>

<p>Hope that helps!</p>

<p>Thanks for the detailed info on the process! Will pass on to my daughter. (She's busy with last week of school and first week of training for summer job this week!)</p>

<p>what do you do about APs fulfilling course requirements...will the advisors know about this? i dont know about the other majors, but for engineering, i had to fill out a Pre-Advisement form detailing what AP scores and tests i got/took.</p>

<p>and thanks a lot so far on the info, that'll really come in handy.</p>

<p>for classes that they expect lots of people to sign up for during orientation, they'll open up more seats right before each orientation session. I wouldn't stress if you don't get into a section you want. People always drop and there's always spring semester to do writ-140/cat6.</p>

<p>as for AP, you should ask for whatever waivers you want. AP calc will get you out of Calc I and/or II (if you really feel comfortable going on to Calc III straight from AP calc). AP physics will get you into Bicker's honors physics, which if you're up for the huge amount of work you should take. AP chem will be similar. AP us history gets engineering out of cat-4. Other AP's might count also but I can't remember.</p>

<p>So if you feel you would like your AP's to count as waivers or prereqs you should email your dept advisor and get them to enter it into the STARS system. They're suprisingly flexible.</p>

<p>How do they (at USC) advise you on taking classes like Calc - when the AP scores from this year do not come out until July? </p>

<p>The Orientation brochure indicates that there is a placement test on the first day of orientation, and that you register on the 2nd day. </p>

<p>I am guessing that they must use the results of the placement test, instead of the AP test scores since the AP scores (for this year) are not available yet?</p>

<p>I think that placement tests are there to make sure you have the basic knowledge. The highest you can get placed into w/ the placement tests is Calc 1. It won't get you out of calc 1 etc. When I went, I didn't have my test scores so I signed up for Calc 118 and when my AP scores came back they let me sign up for Buad 304.</p>

<p>Orientation was alright, it's a lot of ******** talk though, a lot of WELCOME TO THE TROJAN FAMILY, AN EXCELLENT INSTITION BLAH BLAH BLAH, I love USC but most of orientation really is pointless, the only cool things were getting the USCard and signing up for classes, My friend and I made a lot of cool friends with the faculty at Annenberg, We were joking around alot with the director and the assistants, they were cool people, and if your at Annenberg they do personally help you select classes.</p>

<p>They told us that if you are confident you got 4 or 5, you can go ahead and skip out of the class even without getting the AP results back.</p>

<p>They were pretty flexible in that regard.</p>

<p>Unless your GPA suggests otherwise they'll let you pretty much waive prereqs for anything, even without an AP score. They are alwaya flexible about that. Exceptions include if it's obvious that you're not ready to waive or if the class being waived is a hard requirement (in that case it's more complicated, since you have to sub it with another class or AP score or something)</p>

<p>Yeah, my son was "underwhelmed" with all the "hype" of orientation, "Welcome to the Trojan Family" stuff. The registration when pretty smoothly & the incomding students were all advised by faculty AND current USC students in the same school.</p>

<p>Of all the enginering students who took the placement exams, only one didn't clearly "pass" it & might have to take some remedial class or at least confer about it. The placement exams just appear to be screening to see whether folks need any remedial work.</p>

<p>For engineering, most of the students appear to have ended up with very similar schedule--math, writing, a GE course & some intro to engineering course. It looks like most will end up taking physics and/or chem next semester--after getting AP results (at least the kids I've spoken with).</p>

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i'd suggest going thru a fake webregistration online beforehand to help yourself get the hang of things and i'd suggest looking through the course list to find good classes ahead of time

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<p>Would anyone like to tell me where I can find this?</p>

<p>Also, since core classes take up 1/3 of the cirriculum, would it make sense to be able to change majors after the first or second year, yet still graduate on time?</p>

<p>If you've ever used amazon.com or some other online store the web registration is like a "shopping cart" type thing, where you can add/remove from cart and then order when you're ready.</p>

<p>You can log in today with your ID#/PIN at camel.usc.edu/webreg (or alternatively, login to my.usc.edu with your USC email username/password) and add and remove courses from your schedule. You just can't register for them until you get your advisement lock lifted.</p>

<p>HImom - do you happen to recall the course number of the Intro to Engineering Class? (just curious). In the Viterbi webpages, it lists a sample 4 year schedule for undergraduates. It even breaks it down by which type of Engineering. If I recall correctly, the Intro Engr classes are like ENGR 101 ?</p>

<p><a href="http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/bulletin/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/bulletin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2005/schools/engineering/engineering.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2005/schools/engineering/engineering.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>101 Introduction to Engineering (3, Fa) Gateway to the majors and minors in engineering. Introduction to engineering disciplines. Historical and current trends in engineering; ethical and societal factors in engineering solutions. Hands-on design experiences; field trips; USC laboratory tours.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usc.edu/webregistration%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usc.edu/webregistration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>yea, my mistake, the camel.usc.edu/webreg is where you're redirected</p>

<p>The link seemed right, but I punched it in and it didn't work for me.</p>