First Year Course Lottery

treemaven
Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:06:30 +0000

Our daughter will enter Brown in the Fall as a freshman and is very excited. She is, however, a bit overwhelmed with the prospect of choosing freshman classes from the 2000 or so courses offered (or so she laments). She did attend the Summer at Brown program last year and had an opportunity to look over a course catalog, which she found helpful, but she also found so many courses she wants to take that she can’t imagine how she’ll select just 4 or 5 each semester. But now, she finds the on-line course catalog overwhelming.

Last night she received an e-mail from the DOC Advising Team telling her that this Friday they will send a link to “the first year course lottery” that will open on the following Monday. She is soooo confused and hasn’t much clue what this actually means for her. She is leaving (in a matter of hours) to go on a two-week trip that will have limited (if any) internet accessibility. So, she’s worried she will screw up her course selection right off the bat.

Would someone help us get started down the right path and give us a head’s up about what ‘the first year course lottery’ is all about? Won’t she get an advisor or some help in wading through all the course offerings—at least her first time out?