Harvard College
1. How do you view the registration process at Harvard (easy, hard, go into detail please)
2. Is it completely done on an online database?
3. Are there any core requirements for Harvard?
4. How much freedom do you have with choosing what you would like to take? (classes you want to take vs. classes that you need to take)
5. What do/don't you like about the registration process in general?
Aaron Parker'11
1. The registration process at Harvard is fairly simple. A few months before the beginning of each new term, we are given a course catalog, which is completely online. We are encouraged to browse through it, looking for courses that may interest us. No registration steps are required prior to the first day of class. For the beginning of the term, each student composes what we call a "Shopping List" of usually 6 or 7 courses. For the first week of class, students attend these class meetings as they please, narrowing down their course load to 4 classes by the end of the week, when students are required to officially submit a "Study Card" with their selected classes.
2. Everything is done completely online, except for the Study Card, which must be printed out, signed by your Concentration advisor and handed in to the Registrar.
3. There are core requirements at Harvard. As a liberal arts institution, the University has had a long-standing commitment to the Core, which is meant to expose students to a number of different "ways of knowing." Core requirements generally constitute about one quarter of classes taken at Harvard.
4. Outside of the Core, students are free to take whatever classes they choose, so long as they fulfill their concentration requirements. Most concentrations require between 12-15 classes, though there are often electives within the concentration. Each Core discipline also typically has 20 or so options for fulfillment. Additionally, many students will try to complete a Secondary Concentration or a Foreign Language Citation, which usually require 5-6 more classes. Students must take 32 classes total to graduate and all classes are given the same weight.
5. I like that I don't even need to think about what classes I'm going to take until I get to campus. Plus, even if I sign up for a class I end up not liking, I can add and drop classes up until the fifth week of the semester without consequence.
Boston College
1. How does the registration process work at BC? Does it work well? (go into as much detail as possible)
2. What do/don't you like about the registration process there? (go into as much detail as possible)
3.Is it all online? Is it easy/hard to navigate (go into as much detail as possible)
4. Have you had any major or minor technical issues while registering? (go into as much detail as possible)
Kim Ralph'12
1. The registration process at BC is all online. Course catalogs and a schedule of when courses are offered are both available in the student center, but they are also available online. Each student gets a 15 minute registration period and each class is assigned a 2 day period for registration (so seniors get the first 2 days, juniors get the next 2 days, and so on). When it's your time to register you sign on to the online system with the registration code you get from your advisor and then you choose the classes yourself.
2. I like that it is all online so it makes it convenient when you go to register and don't have to meet with your advisor or anything. Everyone gets a 15 minute period, but you can still register after this period is over you just can’t register before. The thing i don't like about this is that all the times are randomly assigned so sometimes you could have class during your registration period and then you cant get to your computer to register until a few hours after your registration time... by then classes could be closed up. I also like that seniors get to register first and it goes down by class so that seniors get first pick.
3. It is all completed online on the BC UIS system which is a system every student downloads from the website. It's all easy to navigate and pretty self-explanatory. When you open up the program it sort of looks like one of those online card catalog systems at libraries where it tells you what codes to type in to search for courses or drop a course, etc. so it’s easy to figure out.
4. I haven't had any technical issues while registering but I did have one friend who accidentally got assigned a registration time when the freshmen class was supposed to register. She just went to student services and got it fixed but problems don't typically come up with it b/c all the computers at school have the program so even if your computer freezes you can still register on someone else’s computer.
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Georgetown University
1. As an athlete for Georgetown, how well does preferential registration work for you?
2. Do you like the registration process at Georgetown in general?(go into as much detail as possible)
3. Is your registration done completely online?..How easy/hard is it to navigate Gtown's system? 4. How do people generally feel about the registration process at Georgetown?
5. Have you ever had any major/minor technical problems while registering?
Logan McCraw'11
1. Preferential registration has helped but I still do not get in to all the classes I sign up for. There has been at least two semesters when I do not get into a class that I signed up for. I've been luckier than some of my teammates though because two of my seniors didn't get the elective they signed up for when they should have top priority even as a regular student since it is their last chance to take the class next semester. I definitely think we should be getting more priority for registration than we currently get.
2. The process for registration is easy to follow but I personally hate signing up for classes because it is very difficult to sign up for a full load of classes that does not conflict with practice. We are given about 2-3 weeks to sign up for classes and there is no priority to the students that send their pre-registration requests in first, which I like because then I don't feel rushed to finish it. I also don't like signing up for classes because it is hard to find ones that are of interest to me (but that's just a personal problem of mine).
3.. The registration process is pretty easy. It is all set up online where we can see all the class offered and can click on the class and it will automatically add it to your pre-registration list. Then this list can either be saved so you can go back at a later date and finish without losing what you did, or it can be sent in. I like this option because it takes me a while to figure out what classes I will take.
4. The process of signing up for classes is generally liked. However, I think most people agree that it is harder to get into classes than it should be, especially for athletes because they are supposed to have priority.
5. So far I have not had any problems signing up for classes that I need to take for my major but I just declared so the spring will be my first semester taking those classes. I have had to take core business classes and have not had a problem getting my first pick. The problems usually occur when it is an elective that I am signing up for.
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