<p>In some college, advisor automatically schedule your courses whether you like it or not.
How is it in U of I? I want to choose decent professors for my courses, for some professors just can't teach. Is it possible to choose my own courses, time, and professors here at U of I? </p>
<p>I know the question sounds ridiculous, but I really know a college that doesnt allow this freedom to students.</p>
<p>You have absolute control over your class schedule.</p>
<p>thanks alanmckinley!</p>
<p>In terms of scheduling, its up to you, whatever times you can fit it.</p>
<p>For freshman, you register when you go to summer orientation. You will meet with a counselor before doing so to lay out a possible schedule which the counselor will either approve or recommend changes – you have control over a lot of your choices but the counselor is there to make sure you are choosing what you need to take including to start progress toward completing a major and your gen ed requirements.</p>
<p>Then you will go to a computer and start trying to register for your classes. You will then discover that the schedule you put together was a pipe dream that has nothing to do with the reality of registering for courses. That nice psych class you put in your schedule for 11 is already filled as are probably other courses you were hoping to get at ideal times of the day. Many of those 11 to 2 o’clock start times for classes have been cannibalized by upper classmen and what is left for many courses are classes starting at 9 or 3 and after. Your whole schedule will change as you try to find what you want at times you did not originally plan for, and then discover that a course you need is open only for a time you have already scheduled for another course and thus you have to change that one too. It continues that way until you have a schedule that looks nothing like you started with. For many, particularly those who attend later summer orientation schedules, there will be a course they must have but can’t get. That will lead to phase II of scheduling which begins the first week of class and is called drop and add when many run around getting approval to add a course they needed as others drop it because they wanted but could not orginally get a course that is different from the one you wanted and they already have. It is during drop and add week that freshman get their first real lesson in the free market system and learn how to negotiate, bargain, and trade.</p>
<p>drusba, that sound horrific. thanks… lol
im hoping my registration will go more smoothly but i have a feeling you are right about it :(</p>