Before/During Orientation Tips

[HokieCrazy]

@ShenVal18

@HokieCrazy I believe housing timeslots are still rolled out in the same order as they are assigned - by when the student signed their housing contract. The first wave would be ED applicants. They don’t notify everyone of their slot at the same time.

You can’t access your son’s schedule because technically it doesn’t exist yet since he has not completed orientation and met virtually with his academic advisor. I would imagine it will be available to him either instantaneously during his advisor session or will post to his account within a day or so.

Admissions may be able to answer whether his HS transcript has been received, but be aware that in a normal year they usually don’t post transfer credits to your student’s VT transcript until a couple weeks after orientation. Once your son has his schedule provided, you should be able to access his VT transcript via your guest account. You can see if transfer credits have hit or not then. NOTE: this is why it’s VERY important to have your own copy of his transcript on hand for the advising session so you can communicate to the advisor if they have him scheduled for any courses that he’s “placed out” of due to transfer credit.

Thank you for your response. Regarding the transcript, I was really only concerned with the transcript from the perspective of validating our self-reported grades during the application process. All of my son’s transfer credits would be coming from AP Exams from Collegeboard. We have his pre-senior year ones already showing up, as a matter of fact.

This brings up another question for parents who have older students that might be able to provide a strategy. Since AP scores won’t be out until after my son creates his schedule, are there any good strategies to make sure he gets the classes he wants? For example, he’s unsure of whether he’s gotten a 4+ on his Chemistry. Should he overload his schedule with both Chemistry and whatever he’d take if he does place out, and then drop the corresponding class based on what he gets from College Board (mid-July, I believe)? Thoughts?