Class registration stress/ can't get into classes...is this common?
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Anonymous
Ok well all upperclassmen enrolled this week so I guess the confusion is that you made the PP think that coming freshmen were enrolling this early. They are not. My kids are also rising second years and between them yes they are ok three waitlists but they will survive if they don’t get in. I do think they will however. The best way to judge that at UVA is by using Louslist to see previous years enrollment. My DD is 98th on a wait list for a class that only took 95 this week but normally enrolled over 200 in years past. You can see on lous list that they traditionally add seats on this class over the next few months. |
Anonymous
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Niche has a question on ease of getting classes. Here is the percentage saying it is relatively easy:
Yale 82% Brown 79% Princeton 76% William & Mary 58% Michigan 53% UVA 51% UC Berkeley 39% UT Austin 39% UNC 36% UCLA 31% |
Anonymous
| Look at how many seats the course had the last time it was offered. For example, if the course was offered in Spring 2022 or Fall 2021 with 100 seats, and as of today the course only shows 60 seats allotted, chances are good more seats will be allotted over the registration period up to the same number offered last time. Email the professor and ask, or just keep checking, particularly on those dates/times when the next registration window opens. |
Anonymous
Can you post a link for this? Would like to look up s few other schools. Thanks! |
Anonymous
Just Google Niche + the school you are interested in. Then look at Academics on the left hand side. You will find it there along with other information. Here is Brown as an example: https://www.niche.com/colleges/brown-university/#academics |
Anonymous
Oh. I see. I thought there was some comprehensive list somewhere. Thanks! |
Anonymous
This is bogus. There is literally no difference between $80K a yr Ivies and $30k a yr public Ivies. |
Anonymous
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My kid goes to an 80k a year private ((with some merit thank God).
First semester freshmen do well. They pre register for a couple classes and the college holds seats for them in freshman appropriate intros. After that, registration is in descending class order. 2nd semester freshmen do the worst, then fist semester sophomores. 2nd semester sophomores register as juniors. Everything is available for seniors. And juniors have nearly everything to chose from. But 2nd semester juniors and 1st semester freshmen have fewer choices. That said, let’s define fewer choices. I’ve seen kids have to waitlist or choose sections at inconvenient times to get certain major pre-recs. But I’ve never seen a kid shut out of intro Chem, Bio etc. For divisional electives, I’ve seen kids have to take their third choice class in Arts and Humanities (out of dozens of offerings) and not get their first choice. Life’s like that sometimes. |
Anonymous
Are you saying the survey data is bogus or the differences between them are too small to be relevant? To me, the deltas look significant, particularly if you are comparing top to bottom (Yale at 82% vs. UCLA at 31%). |
Anonymous
oh no! Son heading to UVA. When you say this happens every semester do you mean 1 or 2 classes you cannot get or do you mean like OP where the child did not get any class but 1? |
Anonymous
Your sarcasm meter is broken. |
Anonymous
Means your snowflake might have to take a 10 AM discussion on Friday instead of a 1 PM,, when she really preferred nothing past 2 PM on Thursdays to not interfere with her darty. — an old fogey who had Saturday labs and didn’t think anything of it |
Anonymous
| This happens a lot at my dd's smallish private college in Florida |
Anonymous
says the guy that believes in nonsense marketing terms |
Anonymous
Miami? |