<p>These seminars look great. Any guess at the percentage of students that manage to get their first or second choice? Are the applications for these classes tedious to do? I’m kinda burned out on essays…</p>
<p>Sophomore college is something you apply for at the end of freshman year. DD applied for one and got into the one she wanted, no problem, but some, especially those off campus are more competitive. Her sophomore college experience led her to her major which she thoroughly enjoys. Application process was a couple of hours. Frosh seminars take a little less time to apply for, (from what I can recall). She took a couple and those too can be competitive, but there are so many offered and so many choices, it’s easy to find a couple each quarter that work. If you’re a newly accepted frosh, I don’t think you need to start applying to the seminars until you show up for orientation and advising in Sept. (I could be wrong on this, but it’s what I remember)…so, you have some time to regain your writing edge if burned out.</p>
<p>Of the intro sems I’ve applied for, I’ve only been turned down for one of them, and that might simply have been because the prof thought that the class wouldn’t be right for me. (Most of the class, as far as I can tell, consists of reading a couple of books and I’d said how after reading one of them I had wanted to learn more… the prof might have been worried that I would be bored.) I’ve applied to a few other classes and been accepted. After students apply, there are often a few extra classes with space available and you can always take those. The intro sems that also fulfill PWR 1 and PWR 2 (the writing and public speaking requirements) are much, much harder to get in to. I also got in to my first choice for sophomore college, which I don’t think was <em>too</em> hard to do… some of the more popular ones (which tend to be ones off campus) are harder to get in to. The applications for both are pretty quick and easy. They ask what your background in the subject is and why you want to take the class basically. It’s pretty simple and straightforward.</p>