<p>Damn continuing students, stop stealing all of the classes I want to take!</p>
<p>Is anyone else watching the schedule of classes to see all of the slots fill up long before newly admitted students have a chance to register? New transfer students get screwed.</p>
<p>where can you find what classes are filled?</p>
<p>There’s a link on MyUCSC to search for classes. Once you’ve searched by subject and have your results, you click on a particular section to get the course description, prerequisites, course capacity, how many slots are left, etc.</p>
<p>Classes are hard enough to get into for continuing students. What class were you interested in that is now full? Most Under-Division intro classes (the ones that Frosh sign up for) are open for you guys.</p>
<p>I’m a transfer student actually, so I have the lower division GE stuff out of the way. Where I’m getting screwed is the few lower division classes I need in order to declare a Film major. One has filled up already and it has a 127 student capacity. Also, Italian 4 isn’t looking so good either. What frustrates me the most is that once I’m a continuing student, I’ll have priority enrollment status and I’ll get whatever classes I want, but for my first quarter I’ll end up having to take basket weaving or the like.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s tough. Email your counselor or the teacher and let them know you need to take that class. It’s not that difficult to crash a class if you actually have a legit reason to be in it.</p>
<p>Fortunately, it seems as if the university is looking after us a little bit. The course capacity increased by about 30 some time today, so they were holding back some of the slots for second pass enrollment or for lowerclassmen. Perhaps they’ll save a few slots until July 24th for us lowly transfer students as well.</p>
<p>Word to the wise-</p>
<p>Even as a senior, it’s difficult to get into classes. Best advice: Crash and continue crashing until a spot opens up. From my experience, slackers ALWAYS drop the class, and most classes will usually have 3-4 spaces open by the Add/Drop deadline.</p>
<p>One of the best things to do is to email the proff now and explain your situation. I’ve been able to get permission codes through email.
Hopefully what they’re doing is holding a few spots close until the orientations that way some of those attending orientation can get in. Don’t hold your breath though. Email the prof… it really shows that you’re doing everything that you can to get into the class.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman signed up for the first day of orientation. Looks like Spanish and math are out of the question for the first quarter. I won’t even get to take placement tests until then, right?</p>
<p>As a Freshman, don’t even think about Spanish until Sop or even Junior year…I’m serious…</p>
<p>If you took spanish in high school, brush up and practice and try to place in a high course (Spanish 4/5/6 as opposed to Spanish 1/2/3)</p>
<p>Or, if you can take summer school and get into a Spanish class, that is probably the best way to go.</p>
<p>That’s a bummer! I was hoping to take lots of Spanish and become fluent early on. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and crash classes if needed. In high school, I took all the way up through AP, which I did well in. Hopefully I can skip intro classes and that might help with availability.</p>
<p>Most freshman do take math fall quarter… If I recall, you guys take a placement test right around now… maybe its during the summer. If you’ve taken AP Calc AB and score 3 (maybe it was a 4) or higher that will allow you skip the placement test.</p>