At what universities are students randomly assigned classes instead of choosing their own?

[entomom]

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At large public universities often used as safeties (directionals or flagships), yes, they’re randomly assigned classes. All freshmen may have to take a freshman seminar and they’ll be randomly assigned

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<p>It was the opposite for my kids. D1 attended a top public and selected her fr seminar; D2 attends a highly selective LAC, she ranked her top 3 fr seminar choices and didn’t get any of them (she didn’t like the one she got :(( ).</p>