<p>Is it first-come first-serve for picking time slots when registering classes? So, if I register online as soon as they open registrations, there’s a good chance I’d get what I want?</p>
<p>It is…but usually the first to come (the first ones allowed to register) are the students with the most credits.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>If you mean students with credits from AP courses, I live in Canada, so that’s not really an issue (very few schools have AP courses).</p>
<p>Usually seniors will go first, then juniors, sophomores, freshmen. At my school there is a range of credits so 0 - 30 will go last, 31 - whatever next, etc. Yes, waking up at the registration time will give you the best chance, but its not solid. At my previous school it was just a random lottery.</p>
<p>The policies vary by school. At my college all students register at the same time and later the registrar runs lotteries for the over-enrolled courses. The lotteries are random unless the instructor specified criteria (e.g. priority to freshmen or seniors or majors/minors). It makes no difference if we register on the first day of registration week or 5 minutes before registration closes. After the lotteries are run, registration opens again so that students who were lotteried out of a class can sign up for another course.</p>
<p>I mean any credits whether they be AP or from the actual college. So as another poster said, generally seniors register first, then juniors, then sophomores, and last, freshmen.</p>