Today we had Sarah's registration. We got there right after 8:00 AM (Check in started at 8:00) and there were already several other people there ahead of us. After checking in they gave Sarah a schedule of events, and we got one also. After the introductions, we wouldn't see Sarah again until maybe 3:30 or so. The bad thing is that one of Sarah's friends who is also going to UW-LaCrosse scheduled her START program for Friday. If we had planned better we would have coordinated it a little better so that Sarah would have had a friend with her.
There were actually about 200 new students there and they were split into two groups. I don't know the exact schedule, but they had some ice breaking activities, then they had workshops/presentations where they went over some other tings, such as the credit requirements, scheduling, etc. They also had advising sessions. They all got advisors (though not necessarily the one they will have when classes begin). More on that shortly.
Kris, Alison, and I sat thru some of the same information. For example, we sat thru presentations on the credit requirements for graduation, housing, meal plans, internal "money" accounts, financial aid, scholarships, and lots of other resources. We were done with our part of the day by around 3:00. Then we just had to wait for Sarah.
Now, back to Sarah's problems. When they broke off to do their scheduling, Sarah notified the people in the computer labs about her problems logging into her account. First they tried resetting her password, which we had done several times. Then when that didn't work, they had to go into their system and do some sort of a manual reset of her account. However, because of how long this took by the time she got back around to getting into the system to get her classes scheduled, all of the classes she needed were filled. She was able to schedule general education classes, such as her required art credits for example. But unfortunately, she needs to take Biology and Chemistry, which were full. I warned Sarah that UW would make it so it was virtually impossible to get finished in four years, and if she doesn't get those classes done, that may just be the case. The good thing (as far as Sarah tells it) is that once she is done with her math credit, she doesn't have to take another math class. The same goes for physics. She is pretty happy about that, and as someone who had to take calculus a couple of times, He joy is not unwarranted.
Her advisor told her that her schedule wasn't all that bad, and that she could still try to get in and get Biology and Chemistry. The system opens for all students apparently on July 11th. So I told her that as of July 11th she will need to start try picking up those classes. It dawned on me that the classes couldn't possibly be totally full, since there were still 7 or 8 more START sessions scheduled, and if they were full, how would the students in those sessions get their classes? So what i think is that they opened so many "slots" for the START sessions. When they are done, they will open the scheduling system for everyone, and if there are any spots available at that time, she can get into it and just drop other classes. It sure is nothing like when I scheduled classes at UWM. But I am hopeful that she'll be able to at least get one of the two classes she needs.
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