<p>The schedules for fall 2006 for my college were just posted up online. I don't understand any of it...in high school, your guidance counselors hold your hand and walk you through it. All you have to do is pick your electives! Geez, I feel stupid...I don't get how to do all of this scheduling stuff. There's weird numbers and letters and how are you supposed to know how many classes you need to take, and how many a day, etc? Is there any criteria for each college? Can you smoosh in four classes a day so you only have to go to class three days a week? Does anyone tell you what your required classes are? Help!! High school has really prepared me well by babying me. ;)</p>
<p>Go. Visit. Your. Advisor. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for replying, and pardon me for asking, but is each person assigned an advisor? Is it too early to visit him/her if I'm a senior in high school and college doesn't start until September? Me=clueless. :(</p>
<p>If you're a first year student you'll usually pick your classes at orientation</p>
<p>Yeah, don't worry about it now. Over the summer, your college will mail you a lot of stuff that'll make everything more clear. What you probably mean by the classes going online at your school is that the upperclassmen are going to go ahead and do fall registration, but you'll do it probably at orientation. Registration can be confusing, but your school will make sure that you understand what you need to by the time you need to.</p>
<p>well, I learnt from experience. I try to avoid 8oclock classes. With the basic premiss that if I am up doing a programming assignment or sumthin i can afford to wake up at 8:30 or 9:00 and be to school for a 10:00 class.</p>
<p>Then I try to avoid those freaky classes that end at 9 or 10:00pm.</p>
<p>Oh and dont try to go back-to-back-to-back. Mainly because, no flexibility and then you will be forced to be resort to snacks for food between classes. I am willing to do Thursday's and maybe Fridays if that means an uncluttered schudule. </p>
<p>And make sure keep in mind work-study or part-time jobs to.
So when u are scheduling times know yourself and what you want to do. But you have months till semster starts right..</p>
<p>Ohh, okay. Thanks a lot, everyone! :)</p>
<p>thanks for asking the question stargirl... i was wondering about that too! but then my question is sort of different, they want us to come up in july and register and take the placement tests for english and math... so should i be worried about picking classes now or just when i get there?</p>
<p>Picking classes is also going to depend on how your college itself is setup. From what I understand, aren't you going to Rutgers stargirlx? If you are, the general rule when I was signing up for classes was to leave adequate time to get around to the different campuses if you scheduled that way. As such, if you had one class on Cook, and your next on Livingston, you might want to leave an hour to get there. It may be a little long, but its convenient to have if there is a lot of traffic in New Brunswick. Here at Tulane however, I can schedule my next class 10 minutes after my last one as it is all just one campus. So what I am trying to say is that scheduling classes depends on the layout of your college.</p>
<p>Oic..thanks for replying Vinin! Leaving time to get around the campuses make sense, but I guess part of my question was: how are we supposed to know how much time to leave when we are scheduling if we haven't even been around the campus yet? You don't know how much time you'll need until you actually walk around and experience it. For example, I didn't know Cook and Livingston were so far away that I would need to add in an hour in between. But I'm assuming this is some of the stuff they tell you about at orientation?</p>
<p>They should explain it at orientation I think. When I was there because of Katrina, I was told by the dean to schedule that way. Otherwise, look at a map of rutgers sometime, you can see that in order to get to Cook/Douglass campus you have to either go through New Brunswick itself or get on Rt 18. That takes a lot of time if there is traffic, which there usually is. Otherwise, College Ave to Busch and Livingston doesn't take too much time, probably 20 minutes, most of that is just waiting for a bus, not actually transiting there. If you have any other specific questions, I can help you out there, feel free to PM and whatnot.</p>
<p>You can go to the department of your major (if u have one) and grab a sheet of suggested courses each term or follow the guideline of courses you need to take in order to get that degree..or if you don't have any intended major take all the requirements of your school first.....that's what I did, and I haven't been to my advisors yet, next year I will......</p>
<p>I'm officially a freshman, but I have sophomore credit and have now done this for two schools since I transferred home this semester. I also just got through putting together a projected schedule for next Fall in case I decide not to transfer again (Long story, but there's a chance I'll be at Mason Gross next year). Depending on how much information is supplied on the school's website and how structured you major is, it's generally not too difficult to put together a projected schedule without seeing your advisor first. Here's how I do it ...</p>
<p>Step 1 - Find the Undergraduate Bulletin and open it. Sometimes it might be called the Undergraduate Catalogue or some such. Anyway, this will usually be a long document in PDF that will show you all your major and general education requirements with a list of classes that will fulfill them. Scroll around until you find them. Chances are, the major and general education requirements will be in different places and it will be useful to block and move each into a Word Document. There might also be a Degree Progress Checklist that'll make the process even easier. This will usually be linked from your departments web page. If you find one, open it in a second window and block and move it into your Word Document as well. There will also usually be a list of courses and their prerequisites by department at the bottom of the Bulletin and you should keep this window open with it scrolled down into that area for easy reference. </p>
<p>Step 2 - Find the school's policies on AP and IB credit and open it in another window. Evaluate what you have and figure out how the credits will satisfy the requirements. Make a note by each relevant requirement in your Word Document as to how it was satisfied by the AP/IB. Of course, youre probably still taking some of those classes and dont know your scores, yet, so it might be useful at this point to make a note to wait until second term or even sophomore year to schedule the equivalent if need be. This becomes more complex if one of them is a major prerequisite, but if youre really confident youll get a good score, you can go ahead and make a projection based on that though you might have to go back and change the whole thing later if you do better or worse than projected. Freshman English/Writing can also be problematic if youre still in AP English since it will likely serve as a prerequisite to some courses depending on your major.</p>
<p>Step 3 Find the Fall 2006 Course Schedule and open it. This will usually be linked from the Registrars page. </p>
<p>Step 4 - Find the introductory courses for your major on the schedule and block and move each section offered into your Word Document including times, locations, and professors. Keep in mind that a full schedule will usually be five courses with two or possibly three in your major first term freshman year. </p>
<p>Step 5 Find the general education options that fulfill the requirements and interest you most and move each section into your Word Document making sure to include the times, locations, and professors.</p>
<p>Step 6 - Decide which sections of the introductory major requirements you want to take. This can be based on lots of factors including times, the professors teaching the courses, or any number of other factors. One thing I do is check out each professor on RateMyProfessors.com and go for the one that has the best reviews if I havent heard anything by word-of-mouth. </p>
<p>Step 7 Once you have decided which sections of the major courses you want, fill in the rest of the schedule with general education requirements in the available times. Also, make sure you keep several options in the same time slot if possible because theres a good chance your first choice will be filled up by the time you register. Again, RateMyProfessors.com can be useful in deciding which sections you want. </p>
<p>Step 8 Go through all your options and put together a schedule of what you need with available sections whose times dont conflict. Most schools divide their classes into sections that meet on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and others that meet on Tuesday and Thursday. At my current school, there are also some that only meet on Monday and Wednesday. Its usually a good idea to try to balance this out with three MWF classes and two TTh classes since those on TTh are longer. Its also best to try to schedule a lunch break on the days you have three. </p>
<p>Step 9 SAVE ALL THE INFORMATION because freshmen are usually going to be at the end of the line for courses and one or more of your preferred sections might be filled up by the time you register. In the likely instance that this happens, youll have all your other information right at hand and can easily make adjustments accordingly.</p>
<p>Since theres a chance Ill actually end up at Rutgers Mason/Gross next fall, I went ahead and did a projected schedule that looks like </p>
<p>Course # Title Credit Day/Time Location Professor
07:966:107 B.F.A. ACTING WARM-UP 1 MWF 8:30-9:10 AM LOR-STU CHAMBERLAIN</p>
<p>07:966:227 VOICE I 2 MWF 9:30-10:40 AM RLH-101 CHAMBERLAIN</p>
<p>07:966:225 SPEECH I 2 MWF 10:50-12:00 PM RLH-101 JEAN PIERRE</p>
<p>07:966:230 MOVEMENT I 2 MWF 12:30-2:30 PM LOR-STU LICCARDO</p>
<p>07:966:271-272 ACTING I 4 MWF 3:00-6:00 PM LEV-STUA KITTLE</p>
<p>07:965:311 Theater History 3 TTH 10:55-12:15 PM CDL 103 Letwin</p>
<p>07:966:123 THEATER PRACTICE 2 TTH 1:30-5:00 PM LVE-THR THOMPSON </p>
<p>I sure am glad Ill have all possible general education classes done if I go! Thats all required stuff for the first term of the BFA Acting Conservatory and It would suck trying to fit more liberal arts into all that! I guess my sleepless classmates will be taking theirs early on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Anyway, Here are the Rutgers catalogues and here</a> is the class schedule. I didnt see a degree progress checklist for my major. Theyre pretty vague about AP credit in the Undergraduate Catalogue, too, but I think Im safe. :)</p>