Registering for courses and I’m super happy to have gotten the Professors I’ve wanted for Psychology, Chem, and Anatomy…However, I noticed they are unfortunately all on the same day. This makes me nervous because when finals come I am screwed. I don’t think I could handle studying for all of those classes if finals schedule comes and it’s all on same day…To fix this, I decide to find other professors and times. Turns out that the other Professors that are available are the professors that everyone advises against taking. There ratemyprofessor score literally has such low ratings it’s not worth talking about. Additionally, all of my friends tell me not to take them and of course they are the ones that are still available.
What do I do? How do I fix this? My College shows no mercy, lol, they allow all of your finals to be scheduled on the same day. Last semester, all of my finals were scheduled on the SAME day first day of finals week back-to-back, and it was the most miserable time of my entire life and I’d never do it again. Well, it looks like round two will be happening…
So what do I do? Take the gamble with the horrible professors or leave it as it is?
Talk to the professors you want as soon as possible and see if there’s an option to take one of the finals early. They may have an alternative date for athletes/other pre-arranged absences that you could take.
Three finals in one day is do-able and IMO worth it to have much better professors. Alternatively you could take one of your courses a different quarter with the good professor and take some other course that you need for your major/graduation in place of it this quarter.
I would discuss it with your professors or advisor and see what they have to say. My university lets students petition to take an exam or exams at a different time if they are scheduled three exams on the same day.
Don’t give up the opportunity to take courses from the best professors. Do try to see if there is a procedure for getting at least one final rescheduled.
Just because the courses are all in a row doesn’t mean the finals will be. They are scheduled differently.
Take the sections with the professors you want.
Most colleges have a rule on how many finals you can take in a day.
You aren’t necessarily going to have your all of your finals scheduled on the same date - however, if that is the case and you’re stuck in that situation, I’d much rather have to handle studying for a few exams than deal with less-than-ideal professors for four whole months.
That’s super unlucky or highly unlikely. Finals can never overlap and they have to be around 3 hours long. You would have to have one final start at 8am and the last one end at 5 or something depending on how many classes you have. As a current college student ask your professors what their finals will be the first day of class. Not gonna lie 2/5 of my proffesors gave take homes and said they weren’t due until 4 days before grades were due. I wouldn’t freak out, talk to your professor, many are super understanding, plus I have seen students whom travel or are international take them early, don’t ask me how , but they allow it. Cheers and best of luck @moony202