<p>ARLT isn’t so much rarely taken by freshman as it is that not many of them do. i also just remembered that as registration goes on, more spots open up, especially in the case of GEs…this is done for that specific purpose–they don’t want to open ALL the available slots for a class at one time so that freshman and people with later registration dates have an equal opportunity to register for classes. for example, as of April 29th, all the ARLT classes are “at capacity” with about 19 registered students per class…however, unless maybe they’ve changed the policy of ARLT classes within the last year (which is possible), the real capacity of ARLT classes by the time fall semester starts in August is 27 students. and from what i can see, most SI classes seem to be open still…</p>