Enrollment with no orientation

3mamagirls
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:58:42 +0000

Sorry to hear that happened. I do not like this “elective” orientation, and if we had to do it again we would go there in person.

That being said, my D had a much better experience. She had a phone meeting set up with the counselor that was indicated on her portal. The counselor had a Google Doc or something like that where she signed up for a 30 minute phone discussion, and received a ton of great information. My D even followed up with a couple of emails, which were returned promptly. She received some great advice about putting her classes in a shopping cart, and then once the registration time hit, she just moved from the shopping cart to her schedule and lucked out and got all of her classes. We know she was very lucky. She was on her portal the second it opened, and it was slow - so I know there was a lot of internet traffic. Clearly we had a more on-top-of-it counselor than you did.

My older daughter goes to a different school that has in-person orientation, and she didn’t get everything she wanted. So I don’t necessarily think it was the orientation, but the particular counselor your son received. So sorry. But he can still fulfill his core classes as well now. And another thing I learned from D1’s college - courses open up all the time. Have him keep looking constantly, because people drop and add throughout the period. They will release more space for the next two sessions, and then open classes again for the whole school, so keep looking. She was able to add classes every single term that she wanted - she just needed to wait for others to drop out and they always did.

The last feature my D learned about for Boulder is a “swapping” feature. You don’t have to drop a class and then try to pick up another one, because that could backfire. But he can try to swap classes in the portal without losing his original space.

Good luck.