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Colleges & Universities College of William and Mary
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<p>those spots that are filled up right now were not only filled by freshmen scholars but also by sophs, juniors, and seniors. </p>

<p>More spots open up for freshmen in a lot of the history and gov classes when it is their turn to register. They add a few sections after a while of classes that are really popular.</p>

<p>I’m not 100% sure what the cross listed seats means but I have a loose idea. I think cross listed seats are mainly there for Women’s studies majors. So if a course is HIST 211 Famous Women of the 19th Century, the Women’s studies department might cross list that as WMST 250 Famous…Century. I think that you can only get into those cross listed seats if you have declared a Women’s studies major, so tell your daughter no to worry about that.</p>

<p>My advice as someone who had to register as a freshman last year:

  1. Don’t worry too much if you don’t get all or most of the classes you want yet. When you get to campus for orientation you have a lot of time to mess around with your schedule and lots of spots and additional classes open up. She will probably end up with a schedule with classes that she likes/needs to graduate.
  2. I mentioned need to graduate. I’m not sure how many AP credits/exemptions your daughter came in with, but she probably still has a lot of General Education Requirements to fulfill. The way that most students tackle the GER’s is to get as many of those out of the way early. So if she can’t get into a history class she likes it would be best for her to take a course that gets rid of a GER so she has more options later.
  3. Also wake up early tomorrow! I believe the registration period will began at 8 AM for the freshmen, make sure she’s logged onto my.wm by that time and knows which classes she wants to try and register for. </p>

<p>hmm… that’s all I can think of for now. But basically, like I said, don’t worry if you don’t get all the classes you wanted right now. When you get to campus the Orientation Aides will help her to register and sort her schedule out and she will end up with most of the classes she wanted.</p>

<p>EDIT: Also, your daughter has probably already seen this video because they e-mail the link to freshmen (at least they did last year): <a href=“http://media.wm.edu/content/wm/registrar/0809Reg_Video_Small.mp4[/url]”>http://media.wm.edu/content/wm/registrar/0809Reg_Video_Small.mp4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’m not sure how much the video actually helps, but I figured I should mention it.</p>