<p>Another one… <a href=“http://www.umt.edu/uac/fourbear/faq.htm[/url]”>http://www.umt.edu/uac/fourbear/faq.htm</a></p>
<p>An important caveat of these programs is that they are often limited to one major only (no double majors or minors). They also put some restrictions on changing majors, depending on how much it changes your “contract” or “plan.”</p>
<p>With that being said I think poor schedule planning impedes a lot of students from graduating on time, and so I applaud programs that force students to think about it. Due to merit aid having a eight semester cap at my university, I pretty much had to finish in four years. I was also double majoring, minoring, and fulfilling the honors college requirements (a condition of my merit scholarship). Each semester before registration, I would write down all the courses I needed to take and then look at current and past course schedules to get a sense of when they would be offered (what semesters and/or years and if any of the courses I needed or wanted were regularly scheduled at the same, conflicting time, etc.). After that, I would plot out possible schedules not just for that upcoming semester but for EACH semester until graduation, ensuring I could fit everything in while still leaving a bit of “wiggle room” if something didn’t work out exactly. Maybe it’s a bit over-the-top , but I really do think it helped to plan out of my schedule in that much depth.</p>