When you register for your first semester of college, you expect to get crappy classes and a crappy schedule. You reluctantly accept the 7 a.m. classes and the less-than-ideal classes because you hope and believe that with each semester things will get better. And at most colleges this is true.
BUT if you attend BYU-I and you are a second-semester freshman trying to register for classes, you are worse off than the first-semester freshman. BYU-I opens up registration to 2nd-semester freshman one day before 1st-semester freshman but then blocks them out of registering for any Foundation classes for a whole week.
Imagine Katelyn's frustration yesterday as she attempted to register for classes and realized that she couldn't even try to register for the basic requirements until next week. Last semester she took a couple of Foundation classes and several classes for her major. Her thought, and ours as well at the time, was take a couple of Foundation classes but focus on you major classes because they will be more interesting and motivating. TOTALLY WRONG thought process! But we had no clue about BYUI's crazy freezing-out policy for 2nd semester freshman. If we had known we would have had Katelyn take mostly Foundation classes last semester.
And don't even get me started on the number of blocks of Foundation classes only available to boys on the pre-mission track! I'm hoping with the change in mission age for young women and young men that misogynistic policy will go away.
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With the new mission age policy there shouldn't be enough pre-mission freshman boys for that policy to make sense. While I understand the concept of the track system for "evening out" maximum enrollment on the school & community, I don't think it is in the best interest of the students for an efficient completion of a degree (which is a major focus of BYU Regular). Not all innovation is improvement.
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