<p>I’d pull out my hair if I had any!</p>
<p>We’re hoping to work it all out now but it’s not easy not being right there to make it happen.</p>
<p>Tons of my friends have forgotten to register at their opening time and then they have trouble getting into the classes they need. I missed my registration opening by a day or so last semester I think. It’s easier to forget if you’re in the first group to register because you don’t hear of anyone else registering yet.</p>
<p>You don’t need to make it work - they do!</p>
<p>In most schools it may be hard to get a good schedule, but it won’t be exceedingly difficult to get full time with reasonably useful classes.</p>
<p>Very funny! Madaboutx you will look back one day and laugh at this. No worries, as long as the tuition is paid, there will be classes to take. And where the heck was the child’s advisor?</p>
<p>I don’t think a student should rely on their advisor to remind them to do arguably the most important thing in their college career. Anyway, my institution does registration and choosing classes completely differently, so I don’t really have this issue. The institution and dorm/house administrators also send lots of emails just in case. </p>
<p>My sympathies to OP, this will be a learning experience for your kid.</p>
<p>As other’s have mentioned, there’s no WE registering. Also to note there are some majors this could cause a serious problem with graduating in four years…engineering for example. If there are absolutely specific classes needed to graduate on time, not just a matter of not getting the professor/time/specific course to meet a requirement that could be met with other courses, then the student needs to go see the professor(s) and see what they can do to get off the wait list(s).</p>
<p>Thank you for the laugh! </p>
<p>Someday, after he has graduated and is employed, this will be your favorite story.</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who have forgotten about advance registration. Especially upperclassmen. Most of my friends are in math, physics, biochemistry, or chemistry so it wasn’t a problem for them since those are not very big majors and the advisors will get you into any class you want to take. It would probably be a problem if they were in majors like CIS, Econ, or for some classes in Wharton. However, at Penn now they have an app that will tell you when classes open up so that should help.</p>
<p>Is he in a major with long sequences of prerequisites that are now full so that his failure to register in a timely fashion may cause him to need an extra semester?</p>
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<p>They don’t, they just choose to ignore it (said from a procrastinator who never faces consequences). You can help them fix it (and reward the behavior) or let them deal with it (by far the better choice).</p>
<p>I used to say my son needed to be an absent minded professor- with an emphasis on absent minded. Currently I have bugged him enough about flights from his place to ours- will know if/when he comes in a week or so. His money to spend more or less on it, he did tell us when he took vacation time. </p>
<p>You have to learn to let go. It is his life, even if you are still paying the bills. He takes ownership of everything and gets the rewards/faces the consequences of his actions. It could be worse- he could have assumed he has registered and finds out when he attempts to go to classes next month! He’ll learn his lesson if he doesn’t get the classes/schedule he wants.</p>
<p>Being overseas this semester, my registration slot was in the middle of the night for me, so I ended up giving my boyfriend my info and he registered for me because I was paranoid about not getting into my classes. When I got up the next morning and checked, I was still the only one registered for some of my classes. Still, better than the reverse, or this.</p>
<p>It happens ALL THE TIME. For almost a quarter century, I’ve been working with college freshmen. Every single semester, there are kids who simply forget. They were going to, but the time they wanted to meet with the advisor was already booked and they forgot to come back. There was a hold due to a fine or something and then the kid just forgot. They figured they could do it any time and before they realized, it was break. You’d be amazed.</p>
<p>While this may not be what happened. I’m thinking your kid goes
To a college that doesn’t remind the students that they need to
Register for classes.
I’m sure it will work out and I bet it won’t
Be a problem in the future.</p>
<p>This question came up during the parent orientation at the start of the First Semester. The Dean of Students reply about when should the incoming Freshmen register for Spring classes? “Right now, or at least by October 1st.” This is the same Dean that told we parents that “a lot of your kids are knuckleheads.” I didn’t hear any burst of laughter at that one, so I let it pass.</p>
<p>I try not to be a pushy parent, but I began to nudge Lake Jr. at least once-a-week in phone calls about the upcoming Spring Semester.</p>
<p>nanotechnology, #12, your post reminded me that my boyfriend signed me up for fall courses when I was studying abroad for a summer. He sent me my “schedule” which included:
MUS 307, Brass Band, bring your own trumpet
AGR 410, Swine Production, bring your own hog
AFR 315, Air Force ROTC, bring your own B-52</p>
<p>Madaboutx, sadly, this sort of thing happens all the time, in one form or another. I’m hoping that all of the forgetful kids outgrow it. They do, right? I hope?</p>
<p>Kids have so much “life” on their mind they forget to prioritize or don’t know how to prioritize what is important. So I gave my daughter a couple basic school rules to make sure she made them a priority:</p>
<p>1) If you loose your scholarship because of grades or a mistake you made then you are coming home.</p>
<p>2) If your laziness or mistakes in housing cost me thousands of $$ then you are coming home.</p>
<p>She now knows that this is a priority in her life and she (who can be forgetful or lazy) is focused on making sure these items are completed with precision. :)</p>
<p>Next semester’s courses are online several weeks before registration. There is enough time for parents and students discussing to finalize the course schedule. </p>
<p>DS knew the big tuition bill and scholarship requirements, he tries to graduate in 4 years even though he is not quite sure which major he will pick (he has several in mind). From the course schedules he submitted to us, it would tell he selected courses very carefully, leave all doors open for himself, some courses are “one stone two birds”. He and his roommate always set up alarm 10min before their registration opening time, get ready, set, go!</p>
<p>Sorry guys</p>
<p>I would not be surprised if the students and parents complaining about “can’t graduate from the state university in four years because the classes are always full” include those who procrastinate registering for classes until late enough that they are full (and any reserved space for students in their majors has been released to the general student population).</p>