06-24-2009 at 11:51 AM
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Thanks for the help, everyone. I'll keep trying to get in during my 7 day period and get in contact with people who may be able to help 
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06-24-2009 at 12:37 PM
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Hey Chimmy, if you can't get into JAPANESE 1Z06 during the school year, you can try to get into it for the spring/summer. I didn't get in either during the year and I even emailed the prof but with no luck however, I easily got into the spring/summer class. It didn't fill up as quickly and SOLAR wasn't as busy. So there's still hope if you want to take it!
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06-24-2009 at 03:40 PM
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Heh, I know what you mean. I had a hard time getting into German 1Z06 last year. I did eventually get in, after a lot of work emailing random people. The person who finally opened a seat for me was Jackie Osterman (The lady in charge of linguistics... or something). This is her email, if you want: [email protected]. I don't know if she's still in charge of this stuff anymore. |
I second this. Japanese 1Z06 was full last year and I also e-mailed Jackie Osterman and got a spot! I was in first year too! |
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06-24-2009 at 03:43 PM
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Jackie Osterman is one of the Humanities Academic Advisor. She is possibly my favorite one. She is lovely and so, so nice, and you know, good at her job. If you have problems with Humanities courses, go see her.
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Yes I've also been referred to her last year for a language course and lots of people told me she opened up seats for others... I didn't know about this till end of August and so she couldn't help me out. |
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06-24-2009 at 03:44 PM
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As stated from before, you can talk to an academic advisor to get them to open seats since they reserve a bit of seats for people that are in the program but can't get in. Alternatively you can talk to the department of the program you are in and then get them to open a seat.
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06-24-2009 at 08:28 PM
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I'll try speaking to the academic advisors as well. I'm just wondering about how the Payment Agreement will work. If I choose substitute courses and complete the payment agreement, am I still able to switch out of them and switch into the ones I want? I'm still confused by this whole system heheh.
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06-24-2009 at 09:30 PM
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For the payment agreement, I believe it doesn't matter which courses that you're taking just as long as you have the same number of units. If you do get into Japanese, that course is 6 units long (while the average course is 3 units) so you'll have to drop another course to balance out your course load to 30 units. The payment agreement won't notice the difference as long as you're still doing 30 units total (a full-time student).
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06-24-2009 at 10:23 PM
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For the payment agreement, I believe it doesn't matter which courses that you're taking just as long as you have the same number of units. If you do get into Japanese, that course is 6 units long (while the average course is 3 units) so you'll have to drop another course to balance out your course load to 30 units. The payment agreement won't notice the difference as long as you're still doing 30 units total (a full-time student).
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You're right and you're not right.
Provided the courses are in the same faculty, your payment agreement won't change. But if you drop an Anthro for an English for example there will be a difference in your payment agreement.
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06-24-2009 at 11:26 PM
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Oh really? I didn't know that, thanks for correcting me.
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06-25-2009 at 12:04 AM
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Yup! My tuition is quite a bit more than normal as I'm taking 7 Soc Sci courses and only 3 Humanities ones.
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06-25-2009 at 12:09 AM
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okay so, im going into second year.
last year i took Physics 1L03, and im supposed to complete 1B03 by the end of this year.
but its full. so i know i can call them and tell them its required...
but do i leave it blank for now? or do i just pick some other course as a placeholder?
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06-25-2009 at 12:25 AM
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Well, more than 10 minutes. But it's your choice. You should have a placeholder, but it's not needed. But if you don't get into your desired course, then you might have trouble finding another one.
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06-25-2009 at 12:28 AM
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i just picked a bio course for now..
but it would be impossible for them to not let me take it.. i HAVE to complete it by the end of this year...
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06-25-2009 at 12:30 AM
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Oh right, I didn't read that part Lol. Yes, they are required to put you in the class.
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06-25-2009 at 12:38 AM
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zango, I'm in the same boat as you!
I didn't pick a placeholder though...I'm pretty sure they should let us in, but I'm just wondering did you email anyone regarding this yet, and if so, who? I'm really not sure who to email :S
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