<p>At the school my daughter will attend, about half the students are engineers. The freshmen engineers have no electives and their courses are dictated by their specialties. All freshmen take Eng Comp and Eng Lit. I think all freshmen schedules are assigned and I don’t think any freshmen pick their sections. I have no idea if they get to swap sections if they don’t like the time or professor assigned.</p>
<p>My other daughter is going to a large OOS. Her courses will be chosen by her adviser, and I don’t know how much input she’ll have. I know 3 courses will be in her department, and there might be 2 sections of each, so maybe they ask them if they are morning people or afternoon people, I don’t know.</p>
<p>It actually seems a little easier than in the olden days when I had to build my own schedule and remember running around to different departments getting punch cards with the courses, turning them in to the admin office to ‘run’ through the computer, and then returning to the departments during the drop/add period to make changes, pick up new cards, etc.</p>