College Searching/Advice Seeking

ucbalumnus
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 04:59:33 +0000

HPuck35:

Class availability was a real issue at my son’s school. The head of the department acknowledged it. It was due to funding issues combined with a late in term drop date. Some students would drop a class if their grade was poor and then retake the class. This was a particular issue with the first in a sequence of classes.

The school should have done what other schools commonly do, which is to limit access to the majors that require the overflowing classes and give scheduling priority to those in the majors that require those classes.

They could also penalize those who do an unexcused late drop (i.e. without medical or other “good reason” defined by the college) by allowing them only to register for the wait list for the repeat class, allowing them in the class only if the waitlist clears after the first day of class. Or just make the drop deadline the day before the add deadline.