What's the big deal?

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<p>I'm a freshman and I didn't attend orientation, so I was pretty worried by all the people posting about how hard it would be to get courses they need for their major. I finally registered today, and got into 4 major seminars (in a department UCLA's world famous for) and 2 fiat lux seminars, none of which had wait lists.</p>

<p>So, what's the big deal? What majors have people been complaining so much about? Specifically what courses, big entry-level lectures or upper-division major seminars?</p>

<p>Just curious.</p>

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<p>you’re taking 4 seminar classes and 2 fiat luxes?</p>

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<p>im trya get into chem 14a, i cant get into calc 3a even though its open because i need to take the math placement exam first, and the fiat lux i want it full, you’re lucky</p>

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<p>Most GE classes and some Intro lectures.</p>

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<p>try enrolling in english comp 3 and easy GE courses :]</p>

<p>core classes like math, chem, etc should have enough spots for entering freshmen (i enrolled in 101 and it’s still open for my courses)</p>

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<p>4 seminars? what classes are they?</p>

<p>are you sure they meet your GE/major requirements, etc?</p>

<p>I’ve never heard of someone taking 4 seminars. 6 if you count the fiat luxes…</p>

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<p>Way too many classes for your first quarter… hell, for any quarter lol - 3 or 4 was my max.</p>

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<p>One’s an intro language course and two are 100-level lit courses, my point was just that they have caps of 15-25 people and they still aren’t full. The same is true in the French and German departments. Even accounting 1A still has seats (unfortunately not a sophomore yet…). And as far as I can tell all but one or two Fiat Luxes are open. Obviously not everyone is a language major, but needless to say, I’m very pleasantly surprised after hearing about nothing but budget cuts, layoffs, and courses getting cut. More excited about UCLA than ever!</p>

<p>And thanks to everyone looking out for me…I’ll see if it’s too much after I get the syllabi, but no rest for the wicked…</p>

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<p>wait so all of your classes are 2 units or less? *** kind of schedule is that?</p>

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<p>yea what are those seminar classes ? are they for a grade or just pass/no pass ?</p>

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<p>why dont you just post the classes you signed up for? and your major?</p>

<p>no offense, but it just sounds like you did it wrong (granted, im not very familiar with north campus majors, but still…all seminars does not sound right).</p>

<p>course numbers that are 100 and higher are upper division courses and should not be taken by freshmen…</p>

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<p>Yeah tell us what you’re enrolled in so far… it’s not the end of orientations yet so I’m sure if you need to change your schedule there is still time and you can still take some open GE’s or at least one pre-req.</p>

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<p>In reality, not attending orientation is not that big of a disadvantage in getting into classes. i chose my classes today, when there are still like 5 more orientation sessions, now those kids are going to deal with filled classes. the only problem was like tgame, i cant take math 31a until that placement test. TRUST ME im not a schedule/ucla/whatever expert, im close to clueless, but a schedule of nothing but seminars seems weird? Like are all of them no grade, meaning no gpa?</p>