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From: ericf@uwvax.ARPA
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Subject: Re: C.S. Department woes -- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 18:38:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 18:38:17 1984
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I also must say that the registration procedure at UW-Madison is pretty
poor, for undergradutes.  From what I understand, they have to plan
battle strategy in order to maximize their chances for getting into
their classes, especially if two departments are on opposite sides of
the campus.  They even have buses to truck students around from one
assignment committee to another.  Does this sound like a good way to do
things?  I don't think so.

I was an undergrad at Cornell Univ., and they had a  computerized
system that I thought worked quite well.  Near the end of the semester,
you made up your schedule FOR THE NEXT SEMESTER, and submitted it to
the college office.  No muss, no fuss, no rush.  At registration, you
found out what courses you got.  Only if you didn't get into a
particular course did you have to go to the various departments to
add/drop courses for the semester, and this was facilitated by the
"Grand Course Exchange", where most departments were represented in one
place, so you didn't have to do running around to sort out your
schedule.  The individual departments decided who got into each course,
based on the lists from the "pre-registration" forms filled out for
that semester, so each course had its criteria for enrollment (year,
major, etc.).  This worked out quite well, I thought, and a lot
easier on the students.  Do they still do things this way at Cornell?

				For what it's worth,
					Eric Feigenson, UW Madison



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