you first step foot on campus. Find out who your advisor is and schedule a time to meet with them. In most cases, freshmen are required to meet with their advisor to schedule their classes anyway.
However, if you’ve been given the task of choosing and scheduling your classes on your own, take that extra step to still meet with your advisor to ensure that you are taking the correct and best classes for your major.
3. Take As Many Credits As You Can
This is often just an option for freshmen when they first arrive. Advisors know that it will be an initial adjustment for the newbies, so they intentionally advise you to take fewer classes with about 12 credits being the minimum to still be considered fulltime.
What many freshmen don’t know is the max you can actually take is 18-20 credits if they don’t conflict with your required classes. So, take up those extra credits and take a class you see of interest that may or not be required for your major, even if it’s just to rack up your G.P.A.!
4. Use Your Food Credits Wisely
Yes, it may seem like its “free” money that you can use endlessly but