By: Tori Mandato
Registration for Spring 2020 is upon us! If you haven’t registered before or haven’t had much luck getting your classes, here are a few little tips to ease the stress of registration and help you get your dream schedule!
1. Get Your CRN’s Ready! List all of your CRN’s on a document and make sure that the CRN’s for your most important classes are first. This way, you can copy paste them in banweb as soon as the clock strikes 7 a.m.
2. Use Coursicle Don’t wait until the day before registration to start creating your schedule. You’ll go through a lot of “drafts” once you start it. Coursicle offers a visual layout of what your days and weeks will look like, so you can be as organized as possible!.
3. Have BACKUPS. This is one of the only times I will tell you to expect the worst. Try to find backup courses that take place at the same time as your first choices. Sometimes, even making a second schedule with only backups can be beneficial!
4. Use RateMyProfessors.com, but use it with discretion. You won’t always end up agreeing with the reviews, but if there’s an overall positive or negative consensus, keep that in mind while registering. Also, don’t forget to rate your own professors after you’ve completed the class. It can really help someone out!
5. Check DegreeMap to see what requirements you still need, and use the GW bulletins and advising sites to see what classes fulfill G-PACs and requirements for your major.
- You can access DegreeMap through BanWeb on the Student Records Information menu.
- Coursicle also provides “Course Attributes” and tells you the boxes that classes check.
6. Prioritize courses that knock out multiple requirements. For example, HIST 1011 knocks out a humanities requirement and a global/cross-cultural requirement for students in CCAS. Often times, G-PAC courses count for more than one requirement so do some research and snatch those classes before anyone else does!
7. Leave campus to register. The GW servers can be pretty unreliable when so many people are on them, so using off-campus WiFi is usually a safer bet than using
