<p>I don’t think they have hosts during orientation - that might have been Explore where your D had the indifferent host. My S roomed with some other new students, and they had an upperclass orientation leader who was really helpful and made sure everyone was taken care of. </p>
<p>qzar - the TO people told my S he needed to be in their group to do the actual registration, so he did what they told him. But he made sure to check in with the SCA people to let them know why he wouldn’t be sitting in the room with their group for registration. I don’t think it’s a problem if you’re in one of the larger SCA majors like production or crit studies, but there seems to be this odd little turf war between TO and SCA when it comes to their first-years. The only substantive scheduling issue you need to be ready to decide on is how aggressively to tackle the TO classes. The official word is that you should take them as early as possible so that you can get into the SCA major sequence in a timely way. My S took 2 TO core classes plus TO writing his first semester, along with a film class and a freshman seminar. People thought he was crazy to take on that much work. It was fine for him, but he’s pretty good about knowing when to quit working.</p>