New college trend in scheduling?- Page 2

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:01pm

That's what the academic advisors at the Registrar's Office are for!

I'm wondering, do other universities have an "Anti-Calendar"? At the University of Toronto, students can fill out a survey for each of their courses near the end of the term, rating the course, reading list, professor, level of diffulty, etc. At the beginning of the following year, the student union publishes the results in the anti-calendar booklet, which grades the courses and professors. It helps greatly in deciding on what to take.

[Plum]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:07pm

We have anonymous paper professor evaluations, which are used by the profs to find the strong and weak points in their work, and we have the equally anonymous online course evaluations, which are published in a manner similar to your "anti-calendar." Unfortunately, the latter has a lot of gaps in it and a small sample size for most of the courses. But it has been helpful to me sometimes. And there's always 52 different kinds of advisors for everything. :P
Updated On: 8/7/05 at 08:07 PM

[BluCat500]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:18pm

haha so what we're learning is this is not a college trend, my college just sucks...Well good to know I suppose

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:52pm

one can always switch colleges blu.......plus I seem to remember from my freshman days I rarely got electives I wanted....

[Justice]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 9:00pm

I'm starting college in August and I got to choose the courses I wanted to take...

When it comes time for the neccessary curriculum, I will talk to one of the many councelors the school has...right now, i just wanna get my Gen Ed out of the way.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:01pm

I hope to switch schools in my junior year, however I really have no idea how it will be viable,my university is the only suny school within driving distance anything non-suny will have much higher tuition, and anything suny and farther away I'd have to pay for dorming...

...I really don't want to seem like a sophmoric, whiny idiot, I am and have been making due with what I have this whole policy change has just really thrown a loop in my current plans and I was in a particularly ranty mood when I started the thread...thanks for the support though guys

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:28pm

Don't worry BluCat, if there's one thing I learned how to do in university, it's yell and complain.

Not to shill for Canadian universities, but I'm wondering why more American students don't consider going to school in
Canada. Even with international student fees, it's significantly cheaper (all universities in Canada are publicly-funded institutions), and you'd still get a high quality education. Is it because most American students are afraid that the name and reputation of Canadian universities may not be known in the States?

[Plum]

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:43pm

Or maybe because it's up in Canada. :) I wanted to be far but not too far from my parents, so that ruled out a lot of great schools.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:55am

I never even considered Canada, my knowledge about Canada consists of the existence of Niagra falls, Coooooollld, and various rumours about pot dens!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:22am

Tsk tsk, you should know more about your neighbours. All the major Canadian cities have highly respected universities. And huge gay villages.

Updated On: 8/8/05 at 01:22 AM