<p>My Phase II for tele-bears is tomorrow, and I just found out the lab I had originally planned to enroll in is full. :[ There is another open one, but it isn't at the ideal time I want. Should I sign up for my original one anyway and try to waitlist, or just go for the other? Is there any way at all I can get into the original lab I wanted?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Often when classes start that have multiple lab sections, they give some mechanism for people to ‘swap’ lab sections, with the intent to keep them each balanced at their target size. This would take priority over the waitlist, as the two students would not drop their old sections on telebears. </p>
<p>Also keep in mind that for some classes, if you are waitlisted for the discussion/lab, you are automatically waitlisted, not registered, for the lecture. Usually in those cases there are extra spots in the lecture, above the sum of the lab/discussion spots, to insure you get in once the lab/discussion clears. </p>
<p>Each person has to decide, but to me, it is better to have a guaranteed spot in a lab, even if not ideally timed, than a waitlist that may not clear until weeks into the semester. Frankly, lower classmen often have to take s**ky times as the more desireable sections are taken by upper classmen and others with earlier telebears slots. Few can avoid having to compromise in this way.</p>
<p>Okay for Physics 7A there aren’t any options for waitlists for all the lab sections, or for lectures, for that matter. The lab/discussion section that I’m currently signed up for interferes with my Math 53 Lecture.</p>
<p>How easy is it to swap sections once school starts? It’s not likely that they will open up new sections, is it?</p>
<p>No guarantees - might have to drop one of the classes.</p>
<p>Can’t you just be signed up for one section on paper and just show up at another section?</p>
<p>Highly unlikely any sections will be opened. I’m not sure about 7A but for Physics 8A they’re pretty unflexible about going to other sections for several reasons - signing up for a section won’t even matter if you can go to anyone you want, labs are graded by your GSIs and entered into the grade system, etc.; they do let you go to other sections occasionally if you need to make up a missed lab.</p>
<p>Ah I see. Luckily I got into the Physics 7A and everything I want, this was actually for Anthro so I can fulfill my Humanities/Social Science requirements.</p>
<p>blueducky - you may be thinking of Chem 1A which is unusual in that one can go to any of the lecture sections (but not any of the lab or discussion sections). For most classes, you are in the sections you registered and they may be doing different material at different rates and sometimes quizzes are taken . . .</p>