Class registration stress/ can't get into classes...is this common?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at a large public (non “bespoke” lol) university and she hasn’t had this problem much at all. Despite the laughable snobbery here (which I hope is trolling) “you can’t always get what you want, when you want it” is a perfectly acceptable life lesson, and if they haven’t learned it by 18, they need to learn that pronto.

If I’m paying $85k per year then yes, I will need to get what my child wants. If your child is at some public diploma mill then they get what they’ve paid for.

A “public diploma mill” like UVa or Michigan?

I know bright students who've transferred out of both, and yes, they said they felt like huge overwhelming degree mills. That said, the students we know are very sharp private k-12 lifers, so their expectations are higher than the usual dips*** who's just happy to be away from home and partying.

Most private colleges are a joke and are hanging on by a thread. You serious think places like Goucher, Allegheny, McDaniel and Bard are in any way superior to UVa or Umich?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at a large public (non “bespoke” lol) university and she hasn’t had this problem much at all. Despite the laughable snobbery here (which I hope is trolling) “you can’t always get what you want, when you want it” is a perfectly acceptable life lesson, and if they haven’t learned it by 18, they need to learn that pronto.

If I’m paying $85k per year then yes, I will need to get what my child wants. If your child is at some public diploma mill then they get what they’ve paid for.

A “public diploma mill” like UVa or Michigan?

I know bright students who've transferred out of both, and yes, they said they felt like huge overwhelming degree mills. That said, the students we know are very sharp private k-12 lifers, so their expectations are higher than the usual dips*** who's just happy to be away from home and partying.

In other words, sheltered snowflakes.

No, they're sharp and enough know what a quality education feels like, while the public lifers don't know what they don't know. And frankly, most k-12 public nitwits don't care and just think a football team, a pretty academic building, and a manicured quad makes a college, any college, "perfect".

Why do you hate public institutions?

Just as the thread captures, they under-fund STEM depts and force thousands of bright undergraduates to fail and/or make them unable to register for courses they need to pursue the most sought after and marketable degrees. While the thousands of fat cat bureaucrats who run the university laugh to the bank, binge drink at football games, and cheat on their spouses at conferences. They do not care about your 18-22 year old children. They won't think twice about covering up a rape. They are awful places to be "educated" or send your 18 year old teen away to.

Interesting comment, but some supporting facts should be provided.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at a large public (non “bespoke” lol) university and she hasn’t had this problem much at all. Despite the laughable snobbery here (which I hope is trolling) “you can’t always get what you want, when you want it” is a perfectly acceptable life lesson, and if they haven’t learned it by 18, they need to learn that pronto.

If I’m paying $85k per year then yes, I will need to get what my child wants. If your child is at some public diploma mill then they get what they’ve paid for.

A “public diploma mill” like UVa or Michigan?

I know bright students who've transferred out of both, and yes, they said they felt like huge overwhelming degree mills. That said, the students we know are very sharp private k-12 lifers, so their expectations are higher than the usual dips*** who's just happy to be away from home and partying.

In other words, sheltered snowflakes.

No, they're sharp and enough know what a quality education feels like, while the public lifers don't know what they don't know. And frankly, most k-12 public nitwits don't care and just think a football team, a pretty academic building, and a manicured quad makes a college, any college, "perfect".

Why do you hate public institutions?

Just as the thread captures, they under-fund STEM depts and force thousands of bright undergraduates to fail and/or make them unable to register for courses they need to pursue the most sought after and marketable degrees. While the thousands of fat cat bureaucrats who run the university laugh to the bank, binge drink at football games, and cheat on their spouses at conferences. They do not care about your 18-22 year old children. They won't think twice about covering up a rape. They are awful places to be "educated" or send your 18 year old teen away to.

Nothing written here is unique to public universities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP here, and no, it's not.

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Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

NP. My sophomore registered for classes for next year a month ago.

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Sounds like a UVA problem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

NP. My sophomore registered for classes for next year a month ago.

But do freshman typically start registering this early as well?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

NP. My sophomore registered for classes for next year a month ago.

But do freshman typically start registering this early as well?

Current freshmen, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

NP. My sophomore registered for classes for next year a month ago.

err what school are you in? LOL Regular upperclass enrollment began this past Monday. Fact.

PP, UVA's freshman enrollment (and I know NOTHING about this so called priority registration for athletics) starts in mid June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

No, this is not true of most schools.

[Anonymous]

UVA needs to add more public speaking classes and hire more CS profs.

In the College, it’s frustrating to see super-popular classes like the one on Dracula fill up and others with zero enrollees.

I wonder if UVA will end up making BSCS the only option plus restricted admission only and eliminating the BA option or making classes unavailable for non-majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA needs to add more public speaking classes and hire more CS profs.

In the College, it’s frustrating to see super-popular classes like the one on Dracula fill up and others with zero enrollees.

I wonder if UVA will end up making BSCS the only option plus restricted admission only and eliminating the BA option or making classes unavailable for non-majors.

My kid, who graduated from a peer school to UVa, never used RMP and took classes at whatever times were available. For Gen Ed’s they picked whatever fit the requirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be uva

OP can't be talking about UVA as first year enrollment hasn't started.
That said, its always a rat race and you have to have lots of back up plans. I think this is true of most schools for freshman and even sophomores.

Wrong. Priority registration for athletes started the other day and my kid is on the wait list for 2 classes.

Wait what? UVA and other colleges have already started class registration? What schools start class registration during the summer ? The common reply date is still a few weeks away. My kids couldn’t even register for classes until after they finished freshman orientation (right before the school year started). At their colleges, upperclassmen register before freshman for the first term of the school year, but for the following term/quarter registration opens to all undergraduates at the same time. Attending the 5-10 day orientations right after move-in was a requirement for the registration hold to be lifted. There aren’t assigned enrollment time slots or priority registration status (aside from maybe seniors or majors in very few higher level classes). I thought all schools work the same way, but I guess I’m wrong and need to be aware of that when my younger kid goes to college

NP. My sophomore registered for classes for next year a month ago.

err what school are you in? LOL Regular upperclass enrollment began this past Monday. Fact.

PP, UVA's freshman enrollment (and I know NOTHING about this so called priority registration for athletics) starts in mid June.

I am the poster who said her child registered via priority registration for athletes this week at UVA, and my child is a current first year.