<p>I'm noticing that a lot of people are starting to post their schedules for the Fall Semester. Two questions:</p>
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<li><p>Are the writing seminars offered on Schedulizer actually the writing seminars offered in the Fall 09 semester? I thought the Fall 09 seminars would be released later in July.</p></li>
<li><p>Is it typical for people to take 4 or 5 classes per semester?</p></li>
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<li><p>I haven’t been on Schedulizer so I won’t be able to answer your question exactly, but I do know that when you go to the Fall 2009 course roster and click on a subject of your choosing, the FWS are usually listed right at the top. For example, if you were to click the link to English courses, the first 10+ classes listed are Freshman Writing Seminars.</p></li>
<li><p>If you’re including FWS in that number, then yes. The majority of tentative schedules I’ve seen by people who have posted theirs up include 2-3 regular academic courses and a writing seminar.</p></li>
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<p>Why is everyone already making schedules? Maybe the better questions is “how” because I’m not really sure where you get all the info to decide which classes to pick.</p>
<p>We don’t really pick schedules until meeting with an adviser after orientation starts, right?</p>
<p>^depends which college your in, some of them have fairly specific courses that freshmen need to take so they pre-enroll you in them, hell the Hotel School pre-enrolls its students for the first two years IIRC. Though these schedules can be and usually are changed somewhat during the add drop period. Even if your in CAS and are currently undecided as to major and thus have a wide open plane of what you need to take you can still start thinking about what courses you might be interested in. There is no need to though, you’ll have a chance to talk to your adviser before add drop starts.</p>
<p>dean5150, the enrollment period for Fall '09 courses for CAS students begins this Wednesday, July 8th, which is why everyone has already started mapping out their schedules. As for “how,” I don’t know how everyone else is doing it, but being that I’m completely undecided I just went to the Fall '09 course roster ([Cornell</a> University Registrar: Course and Time Roster Fall 2009](<a href=“http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/FA09/]Cornell”>http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/FA09/)), clicked on the link for every subject that interested me, and chose the courses that I felt I’d get the most out of. I’m currently still on that stage of the process, but once I figure out which classes I want (with a couple of back-ups), I’m going to schedulizer.com to create a mock-schedule to see how everything fits into place. On the morning of the 8th, I’ll go to my StudentCenter and try to enroll in all my courses.</p>
<p>I was hoping to get to talk to an adviser, too, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be that way. We’ll get to talk to them during add/drop I believe, but for this first round of enrolling in courses, at least for CAS students, we’re on our own.</p>