Where to get class info BEFORE S.O.A.R.?

Pathetique
Fri, 29 May 2009 16:41:59 +0000

Go to the student center. Click on Search for Classes. Select Fall 2009-2010. There’s all the classes. You can select things like, Open to Freshman, satisfies Communication Part A, or search by Course Subject (which is really helpful), and you’ll even see what classes are open, what the pre reqs are, etc. She can even create a Wishlist of classes she would like to be enrolled in, and it will give her a schedule. Then when she gets to SOAR, she has to click one button when her enrollment time comes around, and she’s enrolled. If she doesn’t do that now, that’s what they’ll have her do when she gets there anyway. This way she’s got that down, and she can skip figuring it all out then, and just worry about the classes she wants. I think on one of the SOAR pages they even recommend doing this before hand.

Parents are not with the students on that second day while picking classes. Personally, that’s one thing I think parents should not be involved with at first. The students meet with an advisor one-on-one there, and there’s plenty of peer advisors so your help should not be needed, and it would probably create added stress. It’s not too rushed. I worked until the last minute, but that’s because I’m horribly indecisive (and in the long run, I didn’t listen to my advisor, which I really regret). Last year at my session there wasn’t enough computers for everyone to go on at once, but it wasn’t a big deal. Everyone got on one eventually.

In regards to 4, no it does not. In fact, with Comm A, a lot of people are against testing out of it because it introduces you to the University catalog system and so on. So yeah, she could even take it for kicks if she wanted to.

Also, did she try looking at her placement test scores online? They should be up by now. Go in the Student Center, click on My Academics, then Placement Tests Scores - View my scores. The results should be there. She can even view her AP test scores there earlier than what they’re mailed, if she took some this year. If the placement tests scores aren’t up now, they should be soon. For some reason no one is told that they’re up there before your SOAR session, and they are. I really wish they would tell students that.