Housing and Classes for Transfers

bernie12
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:11:53 +0000

Many professors may just overload you if they aren’t like say, gen. chem, with a pretty strict quota. If you like a professor or class and it is closed, contact the professor and say you want in. They’ll probably tell you to wait till add/drop/swap, but keep you in mind. As in, if no positions open up, they’ll probably overload you. Just a warning, however, if you are taking a basic level science course (gen. chem, bio, physics, orgo) with lots of sections, a professor with a closed section may be reluctant to overload if they notice that one or more sections w/other profs. has yet to fill. The only professor I’ve seen willingly overload is Dr. Weinschenk for organic chemistry and maybe Liotta (but he probably won’t this year). Gallivan and Soria probably want to keep small class sizes (especially Soria who does a lot more interaction and graded activities than most) so will avoid going over the 65 limit at all costs. Finding out a professor’s view toward class size or finding out about their style/pedagogical attitude (so to speak) can kind of tell you about your chances of getting the overload. Departmental politics will play a role as well. Your best bet is to ask around about a profs’ chillness in terms of who and how many people can take the class and if the department itself tries to encourage certain quotas (like the chem. dept having a “no overload” policy for gen. chem, but relaxing it for upperlevels and electives).