<p>Ok, I really don't know how registration goes for freshman, so could you please explain a bit. Do we register online or do we wait till summer orientation? The UREG says that for new undergraduates, the first day to add classes is August 3...so do we really register online? And if not, would I be at a disadvantage if I were to take the last session of summer orientation (Aug 22-24) since I'm an American living abroad? Like would classes be limited for me since other freshmen registered earlier?</p>
<p>You register for classes at orientation. The Registrar office keeps only a certain number on seats available at each orientation session so there is no advantage or disadvantage of going to a certain orientation session.</p>
<p>Thanks! I appreciate the information!!</p>
<p>Are classes given out based on who registers first?</p>
<p>i saw another thread said that each orientation session would be alloted fixed number of classes.</p>
<p>Classes are given out to who registers first during the school year. All of the rising second-fourth years have already registered for classes, but there are spaces saved in many classes for you incoming first years. It's not like I have to compete with a first year over a seat in a 400-level engineering course.</p>
<p>i got a letter from UVa recommending that incoming students first make an outline of a schedule before coming to orientation.</p>
<p>how do I do that? How do I take into account IB and AP tests that wont have been scored yet?</p>
<p>If I go to an earlier orientation will I have a higher chance of getting the classes I want?</p>
<p>Going to an earlier orientation will not increase your chance of getting the classes that you want. They hold a number of classes for each orientation.</p>
<p>However, meeting with your advisor during orientation whether on the first or second day may make a difference. My d met with hers on the second day, towards the end of the day and everything was full. She did get her schedule
when ISIS opened up.</p>
<p>Do you get to choose your professor? Would going to an early one help that?</p>
<p>you don't get to choose when your meeting is. so someone in the 4th orientation could easily get a "better" schedule than someone in the 1st or 2nd. HOWEVER seriously can I triple bold this or something...</p>
<p>YOU WILL CHANGE WHATEVER SCHEDULE YOU MAKE AT ORIENTATION</p>
<p>nothing is final and seriously orientation schedules are bull and don't matter. they make you think of 25 classes you might want to take and you'll end up changing EVERYTHING later so stop freaking out and worry more about other things like YOUR BROWN APPLICATION!! (:D)</p>
<p>you'll be better off if you look at courses ahead of time along with the professors/timeslots you think would work for you. Any sort of head start will be to your benefit so that you can at least lock in one or two classes before open registration begins in august.</p>
<p>if you're an e-schooler you'll be able to pick between like 8 schedules with modifications for math/ap credits but you'll also be able to re-arrange your schedule in august just not as early as the college kids.</p>
<p>I heard that there are benefits to having AP credits--the people with the most credits get to register for classes first. Is that correct?</p>
<p>Some people do have benifit, since they'll have more credit hours than their peers. This means that some students may have second-year standing (30+ hours) and thus register sooner than their first-year peers. So, thats the only way AP/IB will have priority registration.</p>
<p>So only students with more than 30 hours benefit?</p>
<p>No.<br>
If you're a first year, you benifit if you have 30+ (then you're a second year)
If you're a second year, you benifit if you have 60+
Third year, benifit with 90+
Fourth, 120+</p>
<p>Those apply to fall semester registration, add 15 hours for spring semester.</p>
<p>No thats wrong Shoebox. I'm not exactly sure about all of the details, but registration order is (at least roughly) determined by how many credits you have. A kid with 29 credits gets to register for classes before a kid with 23 credits. So the number of AP credits you get will affect how how early you can register for classes. </p>
<p>I'm not sure if total number of credits determines order of registration only within a students class or within every student in the college. For instance, I'm not sure if a first year with 51 credits would get to register before a second year with 48 credits for spring classes. I had thirty some credits coming in, and I usually get to register on the first day for kids in my class/the last day for kids in the class above me, which would make sense under either scenario. </p>
<p>Also the registration process for first semester first year is different. You register for classes during orientation (all the older kids have already registered for classes). You get a time to go meet with your advisor and then after your advisor meeting you get shuffled to a computer lab to sign up . So the order in which you get to sign up for classes at orientation is determined by what time your advisor meeting is. The kids with early meeting times get to sign up for classes first. If I remember correctly (and I may be wrong), your advisor meeting time is determined not by number of credits, but randomly. You want to get an early sign up time, because blocks of spots for first years are reserved for students at each orientation session, but they fill up quickly.</p>
<p>So in summary, the number of AP credits you have will determine when you can register for classes your last seven semesters at uva.</p>
<p>ap credits really help after 1st semester registration... ie all of the 1st yrs registered friday for next fall, where as i registered thurs morning since i brought in 36 credits. as far as your 1st semester, it is totally random and does nothing for you.
also, it will be ranked by class in the future so if you have 30 credits then you will be at the top of your class to register, but 2nd years who brought in no ap credits will still register before you even if you have more credits than them at the end of the yr. i believe everyone already here is grandfathered.</p>
<p>Unless you are a Echols or Rodman scholar, your time to register classes goes by how many credits you have and your year. The more credits you have, the earliest among your classmates you will be. Somehow 70+ credits for second year = third day of the week registering begins.</p>
<p>For a student, appearing for the IB Diploma (results will be known in the first week of July) how the course registration process be handled?</p>
<p>If the student is joining the CAS - first year, with a plan to move to McIntire, after the scond year (the prerequisites play very important role) how should the process be addressed, if the orirntation scheduled is in August? Will someone who has gone through the process, please advise?</p>