scheduling may be tough
Why don’t you wait until she is at least done with freshman year before assuming this has ruined her college experience? Don’t let her dramatic calls home spend you spinning off with her. She can still meet friends for lunch, hold a part time job during the day (great way to meet people), meet people in her classes, and go out on the few evenings when she doesn’t have class. And she has her weekends off, right? Freshman schedules are often crappy; lots of kids can’t get the pre-recs or intro classes in their majors that they want, but they mostly survive.
Most schools have an add/drop period and schedule change procedure.
If not, help her make the most of the situation. Don’t reinforce the idea that this is an unrecoverable disaster. Who says “bonding” can only happen on weeknight afternoons and evenings? Unless these are all private tutoring sessions, she will have classmates. Maybe she can compete in her dorm lounge or lunch table to see who got the worst schedule.
Believe me, this isn’t a catastrophe.
Do you want to offer any details? My D reticently graduated from Lafayette and had very very few scheduling issues over her four years – one class she took one semester later than she hoped and one class she asked a prof. to sign her into and he did – that was the sum total of her scheduling issues in four years at Lafayette (with a popular major).
@happy1, OP had details and then the post was revised. His kid has a lot of late classes starting after 4 pm, running as late as 10, and had no real control over when they were scheduled. I don’t think major was specified.
@intparent Thanks for that. My D graduated recently and I do think a schedule with numerous night classes would be quite unusual for the college – my D never had major scheduling issues there and I don’t think she ever had a night class (except for orchestra which was an activity/elective) at Lafayette. A number of her lab classes were in the late afternoon but she never seemed bothered by that. In any event, I hope all works out for the OP’s D. I would recommend that she use her mornings/early afternoons wisely to get work done.
In thinking about it, I would also recommend that the OP’s child talk to the Registrar and his/her academic advisor to see if there is any way to adjust the schedule.
Without giving identifying details (big brother), they did and were told, “no” and generally were not that helpful (or even friendly about it). Paying full price, too. Yes, of course, we’ll be supportive and instruct her to make lemonade out of lemons, hope for the best, yadda yadda. Still sucks.
Both sorry and surprised to hear that. Hopefully it will work out OK and after the first semester freshman year students self-schedule.
If she is an engineer that is actually not that unusual, at least when I was there. All of the engineers took the same general engineering science classes and some of the teachers for the freshman engineering science classes were adjuncts who held jobs in industry during the day. I’m not sure this is still the case, but could explain some of the scheduling issue. My S attends a different university and also had later afternoon and evening classes and labs as a freshman. I think freshman just get the less than ideal schedules because they are freshman.
It’s one semester. And she might find that having more free time during the day to get things done with less distractions to be a benefit.
I missed the unedited OP so I don’t know details about her major or course load. But, sometimes things don’t shake out perfectly. My son is a senior with two 8am classes this semester. lol He’s just committed to getting up and hitting the gym before class so that he can take full advantage of the day.
Lots of things about college are going to be challenging and our kids need to learn flexibility. And parents need to learn to encourage them to adapt, and to let them handle things on their own. It’s really all we can do. 
My daughter is a sophomore and her latest class so far has been one at 4pm, so this could be major specific. DD is s not in engineering.
My son graduated in 2014 with a double major. Other than first semester freshman year when he didn’t know what he was doing, he had no schedule problems. I think the only night classes that he had were film classes. They watched films in the evening.
I would tell the OP’s son that when times comes for registration for spring classes that he should be prepared in advance with his class numbers and that he should be awake and have his computer on so he can log into the system right when the time for scheduling opens.
Has your child talked to his/her adviser with schedule in hand?
Is there a waitlist for the same classes offered at other times and can s/he sign up for that waitlist?
It is indeed most unusual.
My kid has a class from 6 to 7:15 in the evening and there was no room for rescheduling. Inconvenient but not the end of the world.
My kid has three or four 8:00am’s and three night classes. She/we weren’t thrilled, but she is managing and learning to cope. That is actually the best thing about it. And it can only get better.