I would sign up for the earlier days because you register for your fall classes during orientation. If you sign up earlier, less people have registered so you have more room to create the schedule you want.
@777Blue77
In this year’s graduating class, I counted about 145 IOE grads and almost 200 CSE grads. Are you taking this into consideration? And the grading is definitely more lenient. Curves are generally set higher compared to curves in other engineering departments and homework is easy enough for many classes that you should expect to get >90% on them.
I think you are missing my point about the curriculum. I’m sure that the department can make the curriculum as hard as the other departments if they wished. My point is that there are some IOE topics, like ergonomics and industrial management courses, that are simply just not as difficult as other engineering topics. Once you finish your core classes, you can skate around in your academics just by taking these types of courses. I agree that there are more difficult classes in the optimization or statistics-based courses. It all depends on what courses you decide to take.