<p>From the school website: First-year students are expected to select a total of four 4-credit courses (16 credits). You may wish to add a 1- or 2-credit course (e.g., dance, piano, concert choir).</p>
<p>My D made an excel spreadsheet, with M-F as her columns, and class times as her rows (and using the distribution requirements as a cheat sheet).</p>
<p>The first thing she picked was her FY seminar, and plugged it in.</p>
<p>Then she followed the school’s suggestions:</p>
<p>pick a class you’ve had success in, she then added that to the sheet.</p>
<p>pick a class you have never studied before (but might have some interest in), she added that to the sheet.</p>
<p>pick at least two courses that will meet distribution or College requirements; the one she’d never studied before and the one she had both fell under this guideline, so she picked one more that sounded “interesting” and plugged it in.</p>
<p>Finally, she decided she REALLY wanted to try horseback riding and chose a PE to “round out” her schedule.</p>
<p>She decided to create an “alternate” schedule in case her advisor asked for some other classes.</p>
<p>In the “first choice schedule” (also known as, “oh my gosh I’d be so happy if I got these classes!”) her school day begins at 11am and ends by 4pm, and runs M-Th. The exceptions are her PE (one day a week) which ends around 5pm. And a “lab” (film screening) for her FY seminar, which is one evening a week 7-9 pm. She has at least an hour between classes, allowing her time to eat, relax, or do some quick reading.</p>
<p>In her second “alternate” (which she would still enjoy), her classes run M-F, beginning at 8:30 am (she’s an early bird), and end by 4pm on her 2 “long” days (M & W), otherwise she’s out by 2. In this scenario she opted for a drawing class as her “round out” class, and most of the time she has a 2 hour break between classes.</p>
<p>I hope this helps. </p>
<p>And remember, your advisor may ask you to be more flexible, so don’t get “married” to the schedule you design for yourself, because it may not be the one you end up with.</p>