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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I helped both my older kids pick their freshman classes. I explained a lot about prerequisites and requirements for graduation. then I basically said "Got it? Okay, call with any questions" for their second years.  They ran with it from there.[/quote]

I wish that I had had some help when I was choosing my classes registering as a freshman, but I had a mother who had barely graduated HS and an absent father, so I was on my own.  I had no clue what I was doing (first to attend college in my family) and boy that first semester could have been a lot better scheduled.

But today it's also a LOT of money parents are putting on the line, so I get that they are more involved.  When I went to college in 1985, my tuition was $2400.  Not so much anymore, so there's more at stake for parents.[/quote]

Agree. It's too much money these days to cost a semester from lack of a general plan and some guidance on how to balance a schedule and meet some requirements. Don't count on advising this year in particular.[/quote]

It's also more complicated now--with people optimizing with digital tools--some kids will sit there with 3 computers open a spread sheet of 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices--based on their reading of the reviews of professors etc. and pounce immediately to get the best schedule.  And there are merit programs that offer early registration to others. A kid who has just done the basics--gone over reqs with their advisor, knows their registration date is not going to get most of what they want and then the schedule won't fit together etc and they will be hard-pressed to graduate on-time.  I think a lot of respondents are out of touch with the hell that course registration has become at many schools. [/quote]

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