<p>Ah, I got the impression they based registration based soley on a student's year, but didn't break it down any farther.</p>
<p>And yes, I agree, fall semester registration from first years doesn't apply. </p>
<p>As for first year advising, everyone here should just wait until orientation. If you know what you want to study, or have an idea atleast, go online to UVA's website to your specific school and look for your desired major(s). Look at the requirements (and any pre-____ req), and then you'll have an idea of what to sign up for at orientation. But the advisors at orientation are there to help, and since a majority come in without even knowing what they want to study, then can help just about anyone with any problem/concerns.</p>
<p>you need to look at all of the prerequisites, and assume that you bombed your IB test and will have to take everything. then mark when each class is offered (fall/spring - check out the COD and it has detailed explanations) and see how much flexibility your schedule has. If you get your IB scores before orientation, then you can take that into account as well (same applies to AP). Then you will know what you should try to get into first semester. If you can't get in at orientation, like I've said before, DON'T WORRY, because ISIS opens up for switching in early August and if you still can't get into something then, wait for the 1st week of classes when there is class shopping here and you are bound to either get in through ISIS or use a "course action form" which is when the professor signs a form that lets you into the class even if there isn't room on ISIS. Really you will be able to get into what you want/need, the professors understand and will try their best to let you in their class. :)</p>
<p>Those who want to transfer into Mcintire in their third year should look at the school's prerequisites on its undergraduate program page. The list has all of the classes you have to take and a recommended year to take them. </p>
<p>Seeing as how many students do not always get all of their first choice classes, have a LOT of backups. Many people at my orientation were staying up all night figuring out what other classes to take so that they can have a skeleton of a schedule. E-school was just as bad. Even with pre-selected schedules, there were more popular schedules and all four of my choice schedules were gone in a matter of two hours. Luckily, I met with the professors of those class sections I wanted during the summer to get course actioned into their class.</p>
<p>For McIntire you should take Econ 201 in the fall of first year, Econ 202 in the spring and Comm180 in one of the two semesters. If you have to take ENWR, you have to take that first year, you take if in the fall or spring depending on what number your social security ends in. If you still need to fulfill the language requirement you'll need to take language classes. How many will depend on what you place out of. If you don't place out of anything you need to take four semesters of language, so you need to start your first semester at uva.</p>
<p>At some point over the first two years, you need to take Stat212 (or an equivalent stat class) and a fine arts course (you need two before you graduate McIntire so you might want to take both before third year). You also need to take math111 or 121 or 131 if you haven't placed out of calculus at some point over the first two years. </p>
<p>Second year you should take Comm201 in the fall and Comm202 in the spring.</p>
<p>So your schedule should looks something like this first semester:
Econ201
Enwr/Comm180
Math121
Foreign Language
Elective in anything you want/Fine Arts</p>
<p>Obviously if you've already fulfilled the language/math requirement you have more electives to play with. I would take Econ201 (with Elzinga) for sure first semester. </p>
<p>For the "electives" take anything you want. It really doesn't matter. Just take what interests you. I recommend the USEM's, PSYC 101, any of the intro sociology classes, and to a lesser extent, the ENLT's (which also happen to fulfill the fine arts requirements). There are also plenty of great intro history and politics classes out there if your interests lie there, but I can't make any recommendations. </p>
<p>A caveat about the USEM's. They seem to be hit or miss. Also they are very hard to get into. I'd do your homework on ratemyprofessor.com/thecourseforum.com before picking some you'd be interested in. Also don't be afraid (and this goes for all your classes as well) to sign up for a USEM, go the first week, and dump it for something else if you don't think you're going to like it.</p>
<p>Thanks holla9 for the nice, detailed post. Glad to see my "tentative schedule" is similiar to the one you pointed out. I haven't looked into the USEM's yet though. Now the only thing left is to actually get into those classes and honestly some posts here scare me. It's my first time doing this...I would think it's ok to be somewhat nervous about the process and what classes I will end up in.</p>
<p>yes credit registration is by number of credits, the actual year you are makes no difference.</p>
<p>e-school registration is hit or miss on the schedules, if you get an early time you will get the one you want, otherwise you will be selecting backups. No worries though you should be able to at least get one class where you get the professor (go for Gerrans/Harman for CHEM151)</p>
<p>So I checked COD and saw that all the classes for Spanish 101 are already full...so what'll I do now? I can still get in right? I'd like to take Spanish as my foreign language.</p>
<p>Btw, holla9 thanks for the post. Very helpful since I'm gonna entire McIntire (I hope).</p>
<p>holla9, the recommended course schedule, i hope, will be a very good starting point. I have one more query:</p>
<p>What would you recommend - a)repeat the courses, where you can get credit for IB HL courses, and try to score high GPA, or, b) avail the credit and do as many other courses as possible, to test your academic interest and try to maintain a good GPA.</p>
<p>Joanee49, the many classes are filled because the school took those seats for first year to take during orientation. This is the reason why we say have over 30 different classes becuase they will open a select number of seats in those classes for each orientation. This is how they make things fair for all incoming first year students. </p>
<p>The only way I know to cheat the system is to go to the professor during the summer, outside of orientation, (if he/she is there) and ask for a course action. More often than not, they will sign the form. One professor took my form and personally gave it to the scheduling people. Granted, this method really worked becuase I was already in a summer school program taking either the prerequisite course with the professor or the lab course with that professor "presiding."</p>
<p>Rintu, I always say go ahead in education unless your previous knowledge is a little shaky. There is nothing wrong with a little refresher if you are too unsure about yourself.</p>
<p>hazelorb - when I read it then I took it as a proposal that was being recommended, have there been any new updates with verification that this will be the process? I do remember the echols/rodman priority being modified for the incoming class but I wasn't sure if this was actually going to be implemented. I guess we'll have to wait until November to find out.</p>
<p>Seeing as my latest registration card says I have 72 total credits excluding 16 AP credits when last year those 16 were including in my total credits, it may actually be in effect or my math is already fuzzy after a year.</p>
<p>Malex my AP credits were included on my registration card. What was not included was my credits from this semester (spring 07), which I guess makes sense because I haven't actually passed those classes yet. Are you taking 16 credits this semester?</p>
<p>Rintu I would take new classes, unless like uvamalex said you really don't remember anything any want to take higher level classes in that discipline. I wouldn't be afraid, though, of using your credit to take a lighter course load, especially first semester. There's nothing wrong with taking 12 credits.</p>
<p>holla9, I am taking 16 credits this semester, but I clearly remember I had 32 credits on my first registration card for my 16 AP credits and my 16 Fall 2005 semester credits.</p>
<p>Hello, I'm resurrecting this thread 'cause I have a question.</p>
<p>I've been checking COD and for some of the classes, it says Restricted to: Online Waitlist. Could you explain to me what this means? Like if I go on to ISIS in August to register, would I be able to get in to one of these classes?</p>
<p>The online waitlist is the waitlist that students can put their names down for a class that is restricted. The professors can decide how to deal with the waitlist. Some give spots to who got on the list first. Some give spots to majors first then to the rest of the students. Others just go down the years starting with 4th years and give them the spots.</p>
<p>So will you sign up for that online? ...'cause I was looking through ISIS in the Course Availability, and if there's a waitlist there isn't a radio button next to it so you won't be able to choose it. And there's a Y under waitlisted.</p>