Steering Back to Your Roadmap

Sometimes it is not possible to take the schedule recommended in your LDR -- for example, you may have changed your major or all of the sections of a class that showed in your LDR were closed when you registered for classes.

Don't worry, it will often still be possible to use your LDR to build a study plan for future semesters. Although your LDR is a specific set of "driving instructions" from your starting location to the midway point of your chosen major, as long as you haven't strayed too far off the path, you should be able to steer yourself back onto the "road" in your LDR.

Below you will find a set of directions and tips for finding the right LDR and also some guidance on how to adjust it to reflect what courses you are already taking.

Finding your LDR

The first step is to locate your original LDR. To do this, you will need to know

• Your original English proficiency level: AP Credit in English, EPT-Exempt, passing EPT score (at least 151), or an EPT score of 150 or lower. [If you had to take the EPT, you don't need to know remember your exact score; you just need to know whether you passed the test.]

• Your original mathematics proficiency level: Exempt (or a passing ELM score, i.e., a score of at least 50), ELM score in the 40s, ELM score in the 30s or ELM score below 30. [If you had to take the ELM exam, you don't need to know remember your exact score; you just need to know which band you were in: 50 and above, 40s, 30s, or below 30.]

• Your original Language Other Than English proficiency level.

Adjusting your LDR

Once you get your LDR, you need to compare what classes you have taken so far with what your LDR recommends. If there are classes that your LDR recommended that you haven't taken and classes that you have already taken that are not on your LDR, trying swapping them.

To make this concrete, consider the example of a Communication major with an EPT score above 150 (so the EPT has been passed), an ELM exam score in the 40s (which means that the student needs to take an Intermediate Algebra-level remedial mathematics course), and who will begin taking a language at the 101-level (i.e., from the beginning).
 

The first year of this student's LDR is

Suppose that for some reason, the student's Fall schedule was

SOC 101	3
GEO 102	3
MATH 051C	4
FREN 101	4

Since SOC 101 satisfies the D requirement in General Education and it was taken in the slot where COMM 100 should have been taken, this student can steer back to his or her LDR by taking COMM 100 in the Spring in the "D or D7 course" slot (which is where SOC 101 ideally would have been taken). The first year of the modified LDR for this student becomes

You may want to keep this window open while you work through the LDR website so that you can refer back to the tips for filling in your proficiency levels and also so that you can look at the example of how to adjust a LDR.