<p>I had conflicting finals my first semester. Most finals at my school are scheduled according to when the classes meet, so unless you’re taking two classes that meet at the same time (which isn’t allowed, obviously), you’re not going to have conflicting finals. However, some large intro classes and classes with departmental finals get their own times. Since there are multiple sections of each of those classes, it’s impossible to schedule the final according to when just one section meets. Freshman year, I had a conflict between a required freshman seminar and my calc II final. Since the required seminar had a department-wide final that needed to be administered to ~500 people at one time, I couldn’t move that, so I just took my calc II final in the finals slot right beforehand. A bunch of people in my calc class actually had the same conflict.</p>
<p>I also ended up moving my French final because it was scheduled on the same day as the two finals mentioned above, and we’re allowed to move an exam if we have 3 exams scheduled on the same day.</p>
<p>And the thing is, we don’t know the finals schedule before signing up for classes, so sometimes it’s impossible to avoid conflicts.</p>