<p>Two questions:</p>
<p>When you order used books at the Vandy Bookstore I know that it's first come, first serve. If they run out, do they just automatically give you the new one at the higher price or do they notify you that it's not available and give you the choice to take it or not?</p>
<p>Also, when you put yourself on the waitlist for a class and then spots open up, are those open spots frozen so no one can enroll in them without going through the waitlist? I'm afraid someone will just go in and take them before the professor does whatever he has to do to move people off the waitlist.</p>
<p>There is a point in ordering where it asks you if you want them to automatically replace a rent or used book with a new book if the other isn’t available. </p>
<p>I’m not sure how the wait-list works and I am curious how you are notified if a spot becomes available. A class that my son is on the wait-list for now shows -3 available seats with 1 spot open on the wait-list. How does that happen?</p>
<p>Deleted, misread post above.</p>
<p>My daughter got into a class off the wait list and was notified via email that she had automatically been registered for that class. She had done a “drop if enrolled” (was just trying to switch sections of a course), and it all seemed to work seamlessly. If there is a wait list for a specific course, I doubt others could swoop in and take any newly-opened spots ahead of folks on the wait list. But I’m speculating.</p>
<p>I was also on the waitlist for a class, the first one on the waitlist in fact, and I simply got an email informing me that I had been enrolled. I didn’t have a drop-if-enrolled class set up, so I can’t speak to that, but my advisor never mentioned anyone being able to “swoop in” when we were discussing my waitlist chances.</p>
<p>You will be automatically enrolled off the waitlist, unless enrolling in the class creates a conflict (enrolled in a class at same time, hours goes over 18, enrolled in the same class but a different section), in which case you will be kicked off the waitlist. Make sure to use the drop-if-enrolled feature to avoid these conflicts.</p>
<p>No clue on the bookstore question. </p>
<p>“Negative” seats may be available if the professor intentionally overenrolled the class, e.g. pushed some people in past the original limit. They may have a personal relationship with these students, the students may have some circumstance calling for them to take the course ASAP, or the professor may just be very accommodating to students that email him/her.</p>