<p>My telebears appointment sucks! </p>
<p>Its on Monday...and it's forcing me to take chem 3b instead of bio 1b. I hate you, Cal. For all you incoming freshman, it is really hard to get into classes and these budget cuts aren't helping because a lot of classes have to be dropped. </p>
<p>P.S. I love finding out Bio 1b and ESPM 50AC are full and then searching for replacement classes at 3 AM. </p>
<p>Yours truly,
Almost Done with Freshman Year</p>
<p>cool story bro</p>
<p>i know…it was late, what can I say? but its just a warning to all the freshies. Cuz it will happen to them.</p>
<p>The scheduling isn’t all that bad if you’re just flexible about what classes you can take. I mean, don’t you need chem3b anyway?</p>
<p>should have taken some ap tests</p>
<p>lol @flutterfly. maybe I didn’t take enough APs, but almost having enough units to be a 2nd year before I start college seems like it is.</p>
<p>@neongreen. I am flexible, that’s why I’m taking chem 3b and choosing alternatives to what I wanted. But, it would be nice to get my first choices and I’m sure you would feel the same way. And yes, chem 3b is required for my major, but I wanted to put it off till spring for the “easier” professor, like everyone else.</p>
<p>Cry me a river then?</p>
<p>The real world doesn’t always give you your first choices for everything.</p>
<p>Thanks for the support lolumad. </p>
<p>I’m not sure why it seems like you people are taking offense to what I posted…it was simply a warning. Not a huge rant or anything.</p>
<p>Good luck with finals!</p>
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That would be true if you were the only one who had AP credit… I was in the same boat as you and I felt kind of behind, next to my buddies who had 40~60 units coming in. If you really cared about catching up you could take 18~24 units each semester and quickly get up to speed, otherwise you gotta deal with it.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re right. I hate those people, at least right now.</p>
<p>Does anyone know approximately how much credit I would get for taking 14 AP tests (getting 5’s on almost all of them) and 6 IB tests (3 HL, 3 SL) with an IB diploma?</p>
<p>Would I still have these problems with getting classes that everyone is describing? Also, I signed up for the first calSO appointment for freshmen (June 4th/5th), will some classes be filled by sophomores/juniors by that time?</p>
<p>You will have no problems at all and everybody will be very very jealous. You’re probably senior standing already.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. Almost all of the time you can get the classes you want with smart planning and patience. You might be waitlisted for awhile but if your waitlist number is within 10~20% of the class size (less true for smaller classes, but quite true for larger ones), I’d say you have a good chance of eventually making it in.</p>
<p>As a freshman, you do have lower priority but keep two things in mind:
1.) You are usually not competing against juniors and seniors for spots
2.) If you have low class priority due to lack of units, that usually means that you still have many breadth or lower-division requirements to fulfill, and so if you don’t get into Econ then you can take Bio instead. You have flexibility. (Upperclassmen also have flexibility in that they can take basically whatever they want in the upper division, so everyone has some degree of flexibility to cope with Telebears.)</p>
<p>I’m sure you can find four classes that reasonably interest you and it doesn’t hurt to take random classes outside of your major either. You might hate a lot of your breadths but if you find one subject you like then I think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>yea, because really my late telebears (in 45 minutes!) was all poor planning on my part…x(</p>
<p>But realistically, yes HandleBars, in general people get into classes they want (obviously not first choice all the time or I wouldn’t have posted what I did). You specifically should have few problems unless you’re starting out picking classes that sophomores and such are. And bsd, when you’re pressed for units (like I “feel” I am), its hard to cope with just replacing classes when one fills a req and the other doesn’t (like your econ –> bio example). See? </p>
<p>Good day!</p>
<p>sllamas1 - </p>
<p>The frustration will be high if someone has a single plan for some specific sequence and list of classes. If on the other hand, a student works out various alternative sequences then it is much less stressful. Also, if they set their heart on getting into only the most desirable classes in a category (AC, R&C, whatever) or set their heart on certain times of day, instead of preferring those but realizing that sometimes you have to make a compromise, the student increases the level of unhappiness they choose to experience.</p>
<p>Do the thinking in the week before your slot, jot down all the candidate classes that fit the various alternate sequences, then keep an eye as your time nears to see which are best and worst as far as remaining slots. </p>
<p>Second freshman semester and soph semesters are the times when the risk of a truly crappy telebears slot are highest. As others have said, it is a time when most people have many possible sequences and can adapt to the realities of filled classes. </p>
<p>Don’t know if you are in L&S, but if so, there are R&C classes, seven breadths, AC, and the like to deal with. Those are great substitutes for the times when someone gets foiled on their first cut of class choices. Also, there are plenty of units needed for the degree that are not dictated by the major and college. Those are opportunities to take something enriching. At least, if thought of that way, then taking them is not a ‘fail’ but a reasonable adaption to a bad roll of the dice, telebears-wise. </p>
<p>This is meant as help, not to deny the legitimacy of disappointment when two classes you want are already full, but to share the ways that many learn to feel less stress while still successfully navigating four years here. Your post showed how frustrated you were, but this post is suggesting that some of the frustration is self-made, because your attitude and approach to registration can be the difference between intense frustration or just disappointment in the same conditions. Don’t mean to lecture you on the way to think - but this is how I look at it, FWIW.</p>
<p>Thank you rider. That really helps since I pretty much have my heart set on certain times of days for classes (due to work). I spent my first year filling my breadths and R&C, so I felt like it was all major reqs from here on out. But, nothing I can about it now except embrace my new schedule (in 10 minutes! lol) and not complain. Thanks for your help, everyone. :)</p>
<p>In hindsight, not much use to you but helpful for others reading this, it is better to reserve some of the reqs like breadths to scatter through the years, as a buffer for the times when you need to find a plan B.</p>
<p>^^Yeah. You will need some upper div classes outside your major anyway and many humanities classes are seen as GPA boosters for those tough science classes. Unless you’re applying to Haas, in which case you need to complete all 7 breadth, R&C and other lower div reqs in your first two years.</p>