<p>This can be a problem at any college. If there are courses that many kids want, it is an issue. The LACs and other smaller colleges seem to be able to shift gears and offer more sections of a course when that happens a lot faster than the larger schools. It’s like changing the direction of a herd of elephants for changes to occur in some systems. </p>
<p>My son’s college was hit with this issue. But the capriciousness of college students often makes these changes ineffective. When certain classes were filling up with large wait lists, other sections were created the following years, but it seems as though the kids liked a particular professor or time slot. You can’t win sometimes with these things. I can say that with the smaller school, if courses are needed for graduating on a target date, most of the time these schools are more accommodating. I know with a number of the larger colleges, there was little flexibility in this regard. Simply too many students in that situations and they just had to come an extra semester to get their requirements done. There are exceptions, of course, but you can see how it would be difficult for a school with many students to be able to deal with this issue whereas things can be rearranged on a personal basis in the smaller schools.</p>