Problems Facing New Students

A problem facing new students with starting the school year is the online registration process. So a student gets accepted into college, gets the letter in the mail stating that he or she needs to put down a deposit of $200 to keep their spot in the program. Along with that letter it states that they need to go onto the class finder application of the schools website and choose their classes, then be available to register for them either online or at the school on a certain date in the near future (in the letter it states that it is recommended that students register online). As a returning student to Okanagan College, I found this process particularly confusing due the the fact that I registered for all my classes online. My computer and I were all set and ready for the one o'clock registration time that I was alotted, and everything seemed to go well. All my classes were available and the schedule I had made up for myself fit perfectly. After that, I was logging in to myokanagan almost everyday to see if anything had been cancelled or changed with my classes. It wasn't until two weeks before I started classes that I logged on to myokanagan that saw that my status for a few classes had changed, but did not tell me why, just a little note beside the class name that I couldn't decipher. Well, of course I was not able to get any answers online, so off to the registrar's office I went. There I was told that I didn't have some biology or math credits that I needed, even though I had just graduated from the Licensed Practical Nursing program at O.C. not seven months before and all the prerequsites were the same for both the programs, and for all the classes I had enrolled in. Everything was eventually all sorted out and there turned out not to be any problems with my transcripts, but you would think, that if I registered for classes two months before the actual classes even started, why would it take the registrar's office five weeks to tell me that there was a problem with my transcripts. I would have thought that registering online for classes would be easier, faster, and would alert myself and the resigtrar of any problems with-in the first two weeks of registration, instead of waiting until two weeks before classes start when I might not have been able to get things sorted out if the problem was bigger.