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<p>He did two majors and a minor in a single year? Talk about course overloading!:)</p>
<p>I have one kid that had no problem at a medium sized school, and one that has had to find work-arounds at a large flagship-type (no true flagships in NY). The large U does have priority reg for honors and athletes, and then it’s by credit hours. Although D went in with a semester’s worth of credits and the advisors schedule all incoming freshmen, it’s still been a minor headache and so she’s taken 4 classes during breaks (2 at other schools) just to stay on track with her major. She is in a program which requires 10 prequisites be fininshed by the end of soph year and recommends that gen-eds be complete as well. In some cases, it was a matter of too few sections but mostly it was that a single section of a pre-req was offered at a time that conflicted with another single session class…no amount of early or force-registering can cure that problem. She’ll make it, except for a single gen-ed that she’ll have to fit in later, and has taken a few extra classes to round out her schedule/interests, but many of her classmates will not and that seems common among the health and science majors she knows. I’m guessing that this is one way they pare down or stagger the number accepted into certain majors since, for specialized lab facilities/fieldwork, they can only accomodate a certain number at a time anyway!</p>