<p>When you have a planned schedule laid out with the class time you want, the professor, etc. how often do you usually get what you want? Or how often do you not get the desired schedule? My university has 11,000 students if that helps.</p>
<p>When registering for classes, you most likely won’t have to compete with 11,000 other students for seats in any one course. Most schools have online registration with priority based on seniority (i.e. the number of credits you have already earned) with seniors going first and freshmen later. Therefore, if you’re a freshman or sophomore looking to take a class that is popular with the student body, you may not get a spot at a time that is desirable. But if you are trying to take a class that isn’t popular among those outside your major or class level, then there is no reason why you shouldn’t get the schedule you want.</p>
<p>It’s good to have several times you can register for the course that fits into your stricter schedule (like, if there is a class that only has one section, build the rest of the schedule around that class). Freshman typically get the short end of the stick, but at my school, they reserve some classes or sections of classes for freshmen at orientation.</p>
<p>Hey, I go to a school with 20,000 undergrads and I got the schedule I wanted…but I have 46 credits at the end of this semester and I’m practically a sophomore. So I got one of the earliest registration times for freshmen.</p>
<p>Monday: Seniors
Tuesday: seniors/juniors
Wednesday: Juniors/Sophomores
Thursday: Sophomores/Freshmen
Friday: Freshmen</p>
<p>My time slot: 9:45 AM thursday morning.</p>
<p>One thing that might help though, is if you have a class that’s cross-listed between two departments, the waitlist is only in one of the listings. Like for me, admin law was under political science and law and society, and the waitlist was under political science and not under law and society. I was smart, found out, and then got on the waitlist. Now I’m in the course.</p>
<p>yea, basically… the longer you’re there, the more likely you are to get the classes you want.</p>
<p>you can also email professors if their classes are full, and some will let a few extra people in, or create a waitlist. Generally all of the people who sign up for a course do not keep it.</p>
<p>Do you recommend using pick my prof (i think thats the name–its the one that shows you the average grades)</p>
<p>I get what I want for the most part because I do it as early as I can. Who ever has the most CREDITS gets the earliest time slot. Now, upper classmen will most likely not take my underclassman classes and yes, I want a higher class or two, but its okay because I am doing philosophy so:
a) who is doing philosophy? Maybe like… 1 person in a 100?
b) a lot of people procrastinate on scheduling</p>
<p>SO, i just register the SECOND my slot opens. have everything already planned out. i just need to punch the numbers.</p>
<p>Yes, sometimes my plan is messed up because something is already taken or I need permission for something and I didn’t know it, so this why I have plan B and work fast!
- there was a yoga class I needed permission for
- there is an english class I wanted but they only open certain professors at certain times and its completely random so I had to be by my computer to check to make sure I got the professor I wanted
- one class was filled up so I had to take an alternative
- dance class was filled up by seniors so I have to wait until next semester…
etc, etc. But I got every single thing I wanteed except dance.</p>
<p>Depends on what type of class. If you’re trying to get into big lecture class that has sections, getting into the lecture won’t be a problem- it’s getting into a section that isn’t at 8 am that will be.</p>
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<p>really? at my school the system gets overloaded within 5 seconds. Click the button, type in the 5 digit course number, and click submit as fast as you possibly can.</p>
<p>Yeah, my school too. I actually sat in the back of the class in lecture so I can register, because my time was during class.</p>
<p>I got up at 6:30 one morning to register when I normally didn’t get up until 9 on those days. Our school the registration is open from 7AM to 9PM. Registering for the fall semester, some of the incoming freshmen get register before anybody else. They have orientation days before registration opens and those incoming freshmen register at orientation. But they can only get into certain classes.</p>
<p>So far I have gotten every class I wanted except one. I kind of wanted to take an algebra class at a specific time because it was an honors section, but it was the only time that my Intro to Athletic Injuries class was offered so I took it instead and took a regular algebra class.</p>
<p>At my school what registration time you get strictly depends on a random system. Registration starts on one day for a particular grade and ends with 5pm the next day. You can register any time after your time and the earliest time is on the first day at like 9am. This semester I had a mediocre registration time at the end of the first day and I still got every class I wanted, though not the professor I wanted for one class.</p>