<p>Okay so I have an account at MYEDU ( Pick a Prof ) but I'm not sure what classes I take my freshmen year so I don't know which courses and professors to look up. ^^;; Do you know all the courses I HAVE to have my first year, along with electives if there is any?</p>
<p>I know for sure I need Micro and Macro economics my first year cause I wanna internal transfer to Mccombs later. (Takin Cal 1 and Cal 2 this summer at my community college. ) Other than those, which classes and professors should I be researching?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Also, if anyone has any recs on professors and classes for Freshman that would help me keep my GPA up. Not super easy classes for everything, just classes that won't KILL ME and my GPA the first year.</p>
<p>And I’m not trying to get out of hard classes, I just really need a good GPA my first year for the internal transfer. Before anyone says anything.</p>
<p>Look at the graduation requirements and then look at what you’ll have AP or other credit for and you can figure out what you’ll need eventually, but except for the freshman seminar, there aren’t a lot of classes you must take freshman year as opposed to sophomore year. It varies by “school” so I suppose you should look at graduation requirements for McCombs.</p>
<p>don’t sweat over your schedule too early in the game. When you get to summer orientation, you’ll have a mandatory session to meet with an counselor and they’ll tell you pretty much what you have to take. </p>
<p>I will say, however, that you should NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER take UGS 303 with Cynthia Buckley over HIV/AIDS. It will be the bane of your life.</p>
<p>One more thing! Please don’t get mad, I don’t know ANYTHING about hours and credits and all that. I keep emailing UT Austin and they say “Wait for Orientation” and it’s ****ING ME OFF.</p>
<p>I want to know what type of classes/how many freshmen usually take their first year so I CAN RESEARCH PROFESSORS. I can’t do that once I’m already at Orientation. So I need to know before hand. I have some teachers in mind already for all my basic classes. </p>
<p>So the question is…how do I know how many hours a class is?</p>
<p>People say freshmen usually take 15 hours a semester. So how many classes would that be? And Do I pick new classes at the end of each semester or do I pick classes for my whole year at Orientation?</p>
<p>Should I just bring a huge list of possible classes / professors to Orientation and wait for them to tell me? And instead of waiting in line to register for classes, can I bring my own laptop and do it from there?</p>
<p>Depending on your major, the amount of hours you take can be flexible. It’s usually around 15 a semester, but some people take 12 or 13 in their first year because they don’t want things to start off too intensely.</p>
<p>If you want to know how many hours a course is, look at the code. The first number is the amount of hours the course is. Example: M408K (math course) is 4 hours. So to find out how many classes you’ll take, you’ll need to find out what you want/need and add up the hours.</p>
<p>You’ll pick new classes each semester, meaning after the first semester you will register for your second semester classes. On orientation day you should bring your list of top choices with the numbers on hand so you can get them as quickly as you can. Lots of people may be competing for the same courses you might want! You should bring your laptop because you can register from there.</p>
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<p>Go to the GC of your high school and ask her to explain the basics. Bring up online the current course catalog and ask the GC to explain how to read it for prerequisites, credit hours, if you need to register for a lab or discussion in conjunction with the class, whatever so you can register for classes at Orientation. UT expects you to understand how this works in general, don’t expect anyone to hold your hand through the whole process, you will be on your own to make decisions. Plus you will get more help if you are polite and not so panicky.</p>
<p>For those with questions about registering for classes:</p>
<p>My son (jr at UT) says that what he does is - set out a rough schedule of what you need, using pick a prof to figure out your ideal schedule. Then, AS SOON as you can log on, register for your most important classes (especially the ones that might fill up fast or the ones that don’t have many sections), then start registering for the others. You may have to bounce back and forth between pick a prof and the UT registration website as classes start closing, so keep both sites open on your laptop. </p>
<p>Get on waitlitsts of classes you prefer, even if they conflict with something you are registered for because you can drop/add. </p>
<p>Make sure you register for enough classes to be a full time student even if you have to add classes you most likely will drop. </p>
<p>USE drop/add period as soon as possible - MANY people, especially in the fall semester, fail to pay their tuition on time and get dropped from classes leaving openings.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. Honestly, getting a schedule you both love and need is difficult. You’ll get better at it as you go along.</p>
<p>It sure is different now than when I was in school in the early 80s! I remember them herding all of us into the Special Events Center (they mailed us the time we were supposed to show up, based on our last names). One year, while we we were sitting and waiting our turn to register, they had an Army ROTC guy yelling at us. I think it was supposed to be funny, but it was kind of weird. Then we’d all troop around the concourse until we’d come to the right table to register for a class. What a zoo! Somehow I got out of engineering school in four years, but it was a challenge.</p>
<p>ML, you and I are the same era. I went to SMU, and we filled out these index cards and went from table to table, hoping to get a schedule we could live with. Not much choice!</p>
<p>moochi, good luck with the internal transfer to McCombs, I am doing the same but IDK if I can get in :(</p>
<p>My best piece of advise is to do your OWN research and take what the advisors say with a grain of salt. My advisor recommended that I take Intro to Astronomy, and guess what it was the toughest class I have taken!</p>
<p>Good job on taking Calc I & II at a CC because they are tough at UT and the professors that teach it suck.</p>
<p>As for Micro avoid Daniel Hammermesh and Wayne Hickenbottom as well as Douglas Dacy.</p>
<p>Here is my recommendation for you:</p>
<p>History - 3 hrs</p>
<p>Gov’t - 3 hrs</p>
<p>Micro - 3 hrs</p>
<p>English/Writing (depends on what you need rethoric or something else) - 3 hrs</p>
<p>Take an easy elective like Archelogoy/Anthropology only if Fred Valdez is teaching otherwise take Information in Cyberspace, it is an online based UT class and is very interesting and easy if you put in the time - 3hrs</p>
<p>That should give you 15 credit hrs,</p>
<p>Also check out CollegeVine, it has free reviews for UT Austin professors only.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks so much you guys. Big help. I feel a little better now!!! XD</p>
<p>Oh and, I forgot to ask. Anyone have a rec on a good teacher for some science classes? I am a little weak in those areas.</p>
<p>Also, what about my AP credits from Highschool? I am taking English, Government, and Psychology this year. Not sure if I will pass - so sign up for the classes anyway? And then sign up for backup classes in case I end up passing the ap tests?</p>
<p>Haha. ONE MORE!!! You guys know more than my counselors at my school. XD About the ap credits…lets say…I come in with like 10 credits…do I still have to take 15 more credits or can I just take 5 credits this semester? XD Wasn’t sureee aboutt thatt.</p>
<p>That about sums up all I wanted to know. Thanks again.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the science teacher considering I will be a freshman too
But I do know that we need AT LEAS 24 hours our freshman year to even apply for internal transfer to McCombs. This DOES NOT include AP, SAT, IB, or any other credit by exams </p>
<p>I’ll be taking Calc II this summer too! Are you by any chance taking it at HCC? </p>
<p>Also, do we have to register for classes now or can we just wait to meet with our advisor?</p>
<p>To answer your question about professors for science classes, you can look up your professor ratings here [Best</a> Professors | MyEdu](<a href=“http://www.myedu.com/about/student/take-the-best-professors]Best”>http://www.myedu.com/about/student/take-the-best-professors) for every single class that you want to take at MyEdu. As a senior at UT, I use the site every semester to check out reviews for all of my professors before I register for my classes. It really helped me in choosing which professors to take. Hope this helps and good luck!</p>
<p>If you choose to take the Government classes, I would suggest Millstone and Brownlee. I had Millstone for 310L. He is an interesting lecturer and he takes questions straight out of the online review on the textbook’s website. It is not a difficult class. I had Brownlee for 312L. It seems like it will be too much work with all the reading he assigns and the weekly quizzes but it isn’t. After a quiz or two, you’ll see his patterns and learn to skim the readings for the answers. His tests aren’t too bad either. You can make an A in both with little time spent on them. </p>
