The Disney Classes Showdown

It was the night that every DCP Fall person was on Facebook. It was... last night! The horror as everyone waited for the orange ring of death to load the classes.... then prepare for battle! The first one down was Disney Heritage. Then it was Leadership! All the DCPs were running around in circles and trying to win the battle!

Haha, okay! Enough of that! Let's actually get down to business. (To defeat the Huns~!) Anyways. Last night the Disney College Program opened up the classes. Everyone on Facebook in the DCP Fall group was posting statuses like crazy, my Facebook was blowing up while I kept refreshing the class registration page to see if it was open yet. When the orange loader showed up thats when the action really began. Notifications were spamming, telling everyone that the classes were up as well as people raging because they couldn't get onto the server!

But lucky for me, I was able to get on! All it asked for was your last name, email address, and phone number. Make sure you use the ones that you used for the dashboard login on the site. They have all your info that way, also I believe thats the only way to get in anyway. Anywho, the next part is where it got confusing and it made me bury my head in shame. Especially since I am a web design major... I couldn't understand this layout of how to choose classes! There were no instructions. All there was was a list of classes and you can click on them. My advice to you, DON'T CLICK ON THEM!! It's a time waster because they are just links to a page that explains what the classes are. You shouldn't be going in to this registration not knowing anything about the classes. You should know what classes you want prior, cause while you are clicking those links and reading about those classes those classes are filling up. And those classes fill up very easily. Not even 5 minutes later, was all the Disney Heritage classes closed.

I went in knowing that I wanted a Heritage Class as well as a Creative and Innovative class I had my eye on. The easy way of going about finding what the classes are is youtube. Yes, youtube! For me, I like to see things. This way it gets me pumped. Reading a syllabus that Disney has on the site is another way of learning about the classes but the syllabus is pretty thorough and hard to understand for the most part. They are full of large scaled words that are Disney specific words that you probably will not understand until you go to Disney. So if you feel dumb, don't worry! Go to blogs, check them out and see if you can find anything from other DCPers that have taken the classes before. They write all about them!

Now, once you go through that and see all the links for the classes. Go straight to the bottom, there is a button that says continue. Click on it, the next page that will pop up is check boxes about what you are interested in. You can check only what your interested in but my opinion is to check all the boxes off just in case they limit your search and the class that you are looking for does not pop up on the next page. Click continue once you checked the boxes off and this is the page where you will prepare for battle and get classes.

The first thing that shows up is Heritage. This is a popular class that everyone wants in, if you want it and its there...do not take any second thoughts and click on it. Otherwise, I'm telling you, it will be gone the next minute. Once you do that, go through the list and pick the other classes that you are interested in. 

Now, you may be thinking to yourself... where are the collegiate classes? Well, guess what? They put that up an hour after the exploration and wait list classes! Yeah, a whole hour after 12am they put the collegiate classes up. And guess what happened throughout that entire time? Yeah, all of us people looking for the collegiate courses posted a million topics on the Disney Group panicking about how we didn't see them. Make sure you have a credit card ready for these groups of classes. Exploring Series classes are for free, however, the Collegiate courses are around 25 to 30 dollars. Not bad at all, but they do cost money!

They are well worth it though! Especially if you are looking for a career at Disney. This is how you network with some of the best at Disney! Also, attend as many seminars as you can because they are free to go to! Free is the term EVERYONE loves to hear!

That is my advice on signing up for classes but there is also a bit of a problem with their servers! Since the collegiate courses show up an hour later, you have to go through course registration again and it might kick you out of the exploration classes you picked. When I got my email again about the classes, my Creative and Innovative class has showed up but the Heritage Class was no longer on there. We also don't know if its truth that I have been waitlisted but it seems that way. I won't be able to confirm that until later so its just a warning for those who are still waiting to enroll. It really makes no sense since they put up the classes an hour later so of course you'd have to go back in if you are planning for both an exploration  class and a collegiate course. We will just have to sit still and see! Hopefully I am still in the Heritage class!

Also, remember you can only take two classes!! So it makes decision making even more hard! Get going before time runs out! :)