<p>Every term you get assigned a registration priority number within your class, and you register in order of class. Everybody’s three priority numbers for the year (one for each term) add up to the same number, so you usually get one terrible number, one decent number, and one great number.</p>
<p>In my experience, it really varies from term to term depending upon what you want to take and how flexible you are. I’ve had a pretty easy time of it, except for last term when all of the sophomore English majors came back from the London program and wanted the same required class and this term when my number was really bad and I really needed to get into two popular classes.</p>