<p>i was thinking of changing one of my GE courses. as you might expect, the class i want to take is full right now. if i want to take it, do i just keep watching the online registration thing until someone drops it, or do i need to work it out with a professor/advisor?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Sometimes professors and department advisors can sign people in to full classes (if you get the blue add-drop form and get the professor or department to sign it)</p>
<p>However, GE classes are problematic because some are capped for the number of students allowed in the class by university policy, and neither the professor nor the department has any power whatsoever to add you to a full class.</p>
<p>It is worth a shot though, to contact them and see. You probably will just have to wait around until someone drops though (and people always do). Make sure you have all prerequisites waived and D-clearances issued now (the dept will still handle all of that even though there are no seats left)</p>
<p>i concede i am posting - just to push a particular thread off the page.</p>
<p>Good thinking, lovetocamp. Going back to the original post, I've heard that you can show up on the first day to the class that is full and ask the professor if you can take the class even though it's full, and he/she can work something out for you.</p>
<p>you should always show up to the first week of classes for any course that you are considering adding and is full. The only case is that if there are not enough seats in the room, please be considerate and stand or sit on the floor to allow all the registered students to have a seat.</p>
<p>Professors can add students to certain closed sections only. They do this by you filling out the blue add/drop form and getting a signature. However, many classes they do <em>not</em> have the ability to add you, ever, no matter how much you beg. Many GE courses have these restrictions and neither the professor nor the department can add seats. In other cases, the professor cannot add students but the department can.</p>
<p>In cases in which there is a lab part of the class, the enrollment number is almost always restricted, in both the lecture and the lab.</p>
<p>The only exceptions allowed to this rule are usually if the course you want to add is in your major department, and is a prerequisite. Then the university is much more accomodating.</p>
<p>Do people usually drop classes and are most people able to slip into classes when somebody drops it? I'm trying to do this myself and i don't know how i'm going to get into that class... stupid advisor. XP</p>