General Information

1. First, when your schedule is complete, I expect you to have at least 15 to 17 credits. The maximum you are allowed without special permission is 18 credits. If you are not totally sure how college credits work, ask a friend in college. I will NOT allow less than 15 credits on your schedule.

2. Sometimes certain sections in courses, math or economics for example, have problem sessions or labs assigned with the class. When you register for one of these classes, you will be alerted to also add the problem session or lab.

Some these sections will be paired with certain problem sessions and you will be alerted to this when you add the class. This is important to watch because you cannot take a problem session for a different class when they are paired in this way. Even though these problem sessions show as ZERO credits, they are required in order to receive credit for the class.

3. Courses are identified by a set of letters and numbers.
   SOC 202, for example, is a sociology course and 202 identifies it as Principles of Sociology whereas SOC 203 is Current Social Problems. You can view all of these abbreviations at courses at the Registration and Records website. Click on Course Catalog to see this listing.

4. Unless you are PCC or planning to be a TE, do NOT take chemistry in the fall.

5. "Q" Classes

   These classes are WONDERFUL and if you can, use one of them in your schedule. They are taught by outstanding faculty and are all small. They are only for new students in their first year.

   So what are these courses? They are courses that will count in your degree just like any course that is NOT a "Q" course. The "Q" is only added to the course number so that everyone will know they are for first year new students only. You will also hear them called First Year Inquiry or FYI courses. So these are the same courses as "non-Q" courses as far as your degree is concerned.

   So why take one of these courses? The classes are small, usually not larger than 25 students, and the teachers are superb!

   NOTE: The only "Q" classes that fit in textiles degrees are the following: EC 201Q, ENG 209Q, ENG 220Q, FLS 201Q, HI 216Q, HI 251Q, HI 252Q, IDS 201Q, MA 131Q, MUS 180Q, MUS 200Q, SOC 202Q, SOC 203Q, SOC 205Q and any PE course. Students considering TE can take COM 110Q or COM 112Q.

   Check this website.

   http://www.ncsu.edu/firstyearinquiry/next_semester/next_semester.htm

   SPECIAL NOTE: If you are in the University Scholars Program, these classes count for your scholars credits you need to graduate with this distinction. By all means, TRY to take one.

6. After you choose the courses you want, you will register yourself on MY PACK which is NC State's system for doing this. See the link "How to Register for my Classes" to learn how to do this.

   DO YOU KNOW A STUDENT WHO ATTENDS NC STATE? If you do, nothing would be better than to get one of them to sit down with you to help you use MY PACK.

7. Honors and Scholars Programs
   First of all, there is one major distinction between these two programs.  The Honors Program requires a research project. “You must complete a minimum of 6 credit hours of Honors Independent Study or Honors Undergraduate Research that culminates in a creative project or thesis. Students work in consultation with a faculty member on the project design and in selecting a research topic. Typically, students choose to pursue the research or creative project in the major.”  This is certainly an exciting difference that many students definitely want.

If you have been invited to be part of one of these, or both, I strongly urge to do this!! If you were not invited to be one of these, both of them accept applications from students. I urge you to consider doing this also.

Each of these programs requires you to be enrolled in certain seminars and classes. The directors of these programs will work with you to accomplish this. If you are already accepted for the Scholars Program, you should add HSS 110 to your schedule.

Honors Program
Scholars Program

8. AP and IB Credits
   You need to be absolutely sure your scores were sent to the Admissions Office at NCSU.  Many times students take AP or IP courses in their sophomore and junior years and do not request this.  You must request this for each year. 
   Only official scores from ETS are accepted.

Register for your classes based on what credits you know or expect/hope to get as a result of these courses. You can easily adjust your schedule later if needed.

AP Credit Information


IB Credit Information

9. Community College Joint Programs with High Schools
   If you have taken courses through a community college of a four year school for college credit, you must request that a transcript be sent to the Admissions Office at NCSU.
   Do this immediately.

Things to AVOID!!

1. NIGHT CLASSES: don't even think about this being a good idea so you don't have to get up early. Night classes are any class that starts after 5:30 pm . I promise you that you will be tired enough just dealing with day to day stuff. Having a class at night just is not a good idea the first semester.

2. Make sure you have 45 minutes to travel from main campus to a textile class and vice versa. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

3. Try not to have large amounts of time between classes if possible. This will make it easier to organize your day.

4. BE CAREFUL when you decide to drop a class. Since you are registering early, this should not be a major deal for you. Sometimes classes have waitlists where a student can sign up hoping that someone will drop it. Dropping a class where someone is on a waitlist will mean that you cannot add it back. The people on the waitlist will be added until there are no more on the waitlist.

5. Do not take 8:05 classes if you have any idea that you are not a morning person. It will not work, especially math that meets five days a week!

 

Contact Philip Dail or Teresa Langley with any questions.
Email is strongly encouraged and preferred.

philip_dail@ncsu.edu
Director of Advising and Admissions
Phone:919-515-1177

teresa_langley@ncsu.edu
Director of Academic Services
Phone:919-515-1532