Waitlisting Class Registration Feature

Many of you may have heard about the new wait listing feature being employed by several schools here on campus and I wanted to give a little synopsis of what it entails.

When registering for a course the student will notice that there are now two maximum numbers of seats.  The maximum number of actual seats, and the number of waitlisted seats.  When a class fills up the waitlist feature allows a student to register for one of the waitlisted seats.  The student will now be put into a que.  As registration continues  and seats open, then those students in the que will have the opportunity to register for the course in the order they are listed in the que.  Whichever section you waitlist for,  is the section you will receive the seat in if a seat opens up.  You cannot waitlist for multiple sections.

For example:

CHBE 2100 Section A is full. Chemical Engineering decides to add 5 seats.  The first 5 students in the que will receive an email giving them 24 hours during Phase I  (12 hours during Phase II) to register for the course.  If they do not register in this time window,  they will lose their place in line. As more seats are added, or students drop seats, then the next students in line will receive the email.  The waitlist que will carry over from PHASE I to PHASE II meaning if you do not get a seat during PHASE I then you will not lose your place in line.

What does this mean for students?

NO more need for overloads!

NO more refreshing your browser every 3 seconds to see if seats opened up!!

The registrar now has additional info up discussing waitlisting.  See here:

Wait List