<p>relientr, you mentioned registration. My son is at A&M and registration is my biggest complaint. He is a fish, but he had a lot of dual-credit hours going in, so he was able to register as a junior for the fall. He still couldn't get the classes he needed! I feel very frustrated about this. He has picked out some classes he'd like to take for his humanities and social science electives, but he ends up having to take whatever has space in it. I think they are accepting too many students if they can't provide all the classes the students need!</p>
<p>Wow- I sympathize completely. Registration is SO frustrating, even when you have great advisors trying to help. What I did this semester that really helped was email a prof before registration began. I really wanted to take the class, and told him how interested I was. He was very helpful, and told me that if it filled up too quickly, he would try to force me. I happened to get in, but it was really nice to know that it was secure. This might help your son- it never hurts to try. And a side note: if he is ever looking for a job, people that work during the day in certain capacities for TAMU get early registration (in addition to honors and athletes). Other than that, I hear that throwing breakable objects out a window is pretty satisfactory. :-P</p>
<p>relientr, as far as registration goes for incoming freshman admitted into Cornerstone...how does that work? My son's major will be English. Will he work with an English advisor at summer conference or will the Cornerstone people help him then? It seems that Dr. Curtis mentioned something about helping Cornerstone kids out as far as getting them the good profs. and steering them in the "right" direction as far as good classes with great profs. when we went for Cornerstone Day back in March.<br>
Also, was wondering if you know anything about placing out of/placement tests for foreign languages?? I called the testing center but they said they don't have a schedule for that yet. I just assumed it would be May 31 if his conference is June 1 & 2. Do you know if you can totally place out of a foreign language? (is it possible?). He's had through Spanish III honors and is NOT looking forward to taking Spanish at all!! The website said it was very hard getting a place in a foreign language class cuz space is so limited. I'm hoping it won't be a problem since he has an early registration date.
Also, would you suggest taking your required Math classes elsewhere...such as at a junior college?? He doesn't like math either. He gets A's but has to work at it and wants to keep his GPA up at A&M. Do you know if math is really hard there? He would just be taking the required "Liberal Arts easy math". He's taking the Statistics AP exam next week, but this only counts as an elective at A&M...dang it!<br>
Boy, I guess A&M should be paying you to be an advisor!!! You may be sorry you ever posted on CC!!! lol!!! Thanks a bunch!!</p>
<p>LOL- I'll make sure to mention that to Dr. Funkhouser next time I see him... :-P
Hmm, lets see. As far as the math, one supposedly easy math class is logic, which is listed under a PHIL class but can count as a math. I plan on taking it honors to fulfill some requirements for Foundation Honors. The 3 PHIL classes that can be maths are 240, 341, and 342, at least in this year's catalogue. Is he wanting to go to grad school or anything after college? If so, taking it at a jr college wouldn't look as good for an LBAR major. It might not matter enough though if he really thinks it would be horrible to take it at TAMU*it's a personal decision. With foreign language, I AP'ed out so I'm not sure about the tests. I do know that they offer them during the year as well, so not to worry about rushing it unless he just doesn't want to forget the material. Either way, it IS possible to place out completely.
The benefit to finding profs with Cornerstone would mostly be for the Spring. We have numerous profs come to lecture in the Fall, which helps in choosing who you liked as a speaker and topic-wise. We didn't ever have an official advising conference, but if you would like any help now, I'm sure Dr. Curtis would go out of his way if you just email him ahead of time. The only thing is that he might have a hard time saying something bad about a prof since he works with them. I would seriously recommend subscribing to pickaprof.com- it has the official grade distribution and reviews by students. Obviously the reviews should be taken with a grain of salt, but it is good for getting an overview. I can always ask around too if you pm me, but I obviously have a limited amount of experience. It's also best if you have it mostly worked out before you get to the NSC- my mom and I stayed up the entire night trying to figure it out because we kept talking to advisors and they would give me contradictory advise. It gets better though, I promise!</p>
<p>berly, my son is a liberal arts major too, and the liberal arts "easy math" isn't easy at all. You can take logic for one of your math courses, as relientr suggested, and my son is doing that. The "easiest" maths you can take are Math 131 "Mathematical Concepts - Calculus", Math 141 "Business Math I" (which is actually business calculus), and Math 151 "Engineering Math I" (aka "the dreaded engineering math course"). There is also Math 166 "Topics in Contemporary Mathematics II" (there is no "I" listed), but I don't know anything about that one.</p>
<p>My suggestion for a liberal arts major would be to take your maths at the comm. college if you can.</p>
<p>I also second relientr's suggestion that you subscribe to <a href="http://www.pickaprof.com%5B/url%5D">www.pickaprof.com</a> . I think it's something like $10 a year and worth every penny. If you go there and register, you can plan out the schedule you want. If you do that and want to ask me if any specific class times/sections of a course are still open, I'd be glad to check that for you. You can't check yourself until your student gets a UIN and a password.</p>
<p>I checked the registration site for you. Span 102 has 18 seats left in the honors sections and no seats left in non-honors. Ditto for Span 101 (honors seats only). There are slots in Span 140, "Alternate Beginning Spanish". It's for students who place out of Spanish 101. There are 4 seats left in honors Spanish 201, no reg. seats and there are a few seats still available Spanish 202. All of the Spanish classes except 101 say that Section 501 is reserved for "Summer Placement Testing" students, yet they show all the seats taken already, so I don't know if they will still be releasing those seats or if upperclassmen were "forced" into those sections, or what.</p>
<p>The logic classes are all full already.</p>
<p>Best of luck on registering at the new student conference. We found it to be a nightmare. :-)</p>