<p>My son's orientation is July l4 and l5. We are all going down and my husband and I are going to the one day parent orientation. Would someone tell me what UNIV100 is? Also, my son is in the Robert Smith business school with an undeclared business major. Should he be checking out the courses from the catalogue now? Thanks</p>
<p>He doesn't have to be, but it can never hurt to come to Orientation already a little educated.</p>
<p>ottobar, don't know if you've got the handouts yet from the Smith School that lay out the suggested 4-year plan. Regardless of major, your son will be encouraged to take the following during his first semester: Engl 101 if not exempt, Math 220 or as placed, Econ 200, CORE class, and a lower level elective.</p>
<p>Worrywart: thanks for the information. My son did not get any handouts as yet from the Smith School. I guess he will during Julyorientation. Thanks - when are you going to orientation?</p>
<p>Son just completed freshman year.</p>
<p>I was just curious as to how the advising process will go during orientation. When we meet with our advisors for the first time are we going to be selecting classes right then or do we go over various options and then make selections at a different time. I'm just not sure how knowledgeable I should be before orientation about what classes I need to take and what classes are available for me to take. </p>
<p>Im going to be at orientation next Monday and Tuesday and I am in the Merrill College of Journalism.</p>
<p>You will be registering for classes when you meet with your advisor so arrive prepared. Know which AP credits you've earned if applicable. Know which CORE requirements you may have satisfied through your standardized test scores if applicable.</p>
<p>On Monday you will learn about all the requirements for your major and learn how to use the system for registration, and then you are given the night to mull over your options so that you can come in the next day (starting at 9:30) prepared for registration. You will probably be done advising around 11:30-12:00 depending on how your computer lab session goes.</p>
<p>The only orientation date that I am capable of going to are the last few dates in Aug (i am out of the country and did not plan for orientation). Would I have a very limited selection of classes when I register?</p>
<p>Quite possibly so have several backups planned. Study the CORE requirements table and try to select several options that would satisfy an individual requirement.</p>
<p>I went to June2's orientation and registered for my classes.
I only registered for 15 credits, thanks for my early registration and ingenious planning!
haha
Good luck on registering for classes, I'm liberal art major, and ALL classes are already FILLED UP with ants, or people. Core requirement is annoying, but my long list of transfer/ap credits filled all the requirements! muhahahah</p>
<p>btw, you DON'T want to take 14 credits or less, you need 120 credits to graduate, which means at least 30 credits per year, not counting special circumstances and scheduling conflicts.</p>
<p>Do we just register for credits for 1 term or for the whole year?</p>
<p>If we just register for a term, then we have to register for classes every term right?</p>
<p>Thinking of registering for the 28th of July!</p>
<p>Yes, you will register prior to each semester.</p>
<p>I'm not so sure I agree about definitely not taking 14 credits or less. I'm taking 14 credits and possibly 13 if I test out of Jour181. My orientation advisor only took 13 credits her first semester and is on schedule to graduate in time without going to any summer or winter sessions. If you do take 13 credits your first semester it will probably be hard to do that again as a senior. </p>
<p>I decided to keep my schedule as is because I felt that only taking 13 credits would allow me time to get adjusted to college life without having too much of an academic burden. I will also have more time available to ensure that I get as high of grades as possible since it is important to establish a high gpa freshmen year. </p>
<p>I think it's up to the person but if you are having trouble fitting another class into your schedule or if you are adding a class which might be difficult and require a lot of extra work it might be smart to just forget that class for now and take a slightly lighter load. Again its just 2 cents so do whatever works for you.</p>
<p>13 credits are equal to only 13 hours of study in a semester right? Isn't that too less?</p>
<p>You'll just be studying 13 hours in classes?</p>
<p>^ They recommend 2 hours of studying for each hour of class, but that obviously varies depending on what class it is and your study habits.</p>
<p>At orientation June 5-6, my son registered for 16 credit hours, which I think is a lot, but he feels good about it. He hopes to test out of Jour181 too.</p>
<p>Also, I wanted to add that orientation was very well-done and informative! And the food at the South Campus Diner was pretty darn good. We also ate at Adele's (the nice restaurant at Stamp Student Union) the next day, which was excellent. Try their crab dip if you can. Mmmm.</p>
<p>@pharmake: Can you please tell us step by step about the orientation? How did your day start/end?</p>
<p>I just came back from the scholars orientation today. Because of my major and the scholars, i tried to sign up for 18 originally with a CORE in there but apparently they say that the max for frosh is 17 so now i'm only taking 15. the so called "advising" is nothing that i couldnt have figured out on my own. i actually chose any class just to placate the advisors and am now going and fine tuning everything so i can get a schedule that i like because after orientation, you can adjust your schedule all you want. oh, and be prepared for A LOT of walking! other than that, it was a pretty enjoyable 2 days and it was nice spending a night in a dorm, even though i know i wont be staying in that same building.</p>
<p>Can we sign up on Testudo for classes before we go to Orientation? There are some classes I want to take that only have ONE spot left! I was able to log on to Testudo and it seemed to allow me to choose classes (I didn't yet though).</p>