<p>Hey all, so I tried enrolling for CHEM 141 this morning and realized that all four lecture sections were already full. I'm aware that Emory sent out an email to everyone saying that they'd add more sections by August 26th, but does that mean they are looking for other instructors to teach the course? I was really hoping to enroll in either Mulford's or McGill's class.</p>
<p>@dasdf321 : You will get into Mulford or McGill’s section, trust me. If they find some outside hires, students, mostly whom are pre-health (p-word pre-healths at that) will run to those sections to avoid potentially being challenged by Mulford or McGill (but mainly Mulford). The only reason those three sections have filled right now is because students rather be in a section than to not be in one. It isn’t because Mulford is popular (students will likely flee his section, not McGill’s). With the pre-meds we get now, his popularity is in decline, despite him being as strong an instructor as he was before. This prediction is supported by last year’s 141 enrollment figures where I do not think Mulford’s section filled. People like Tovrog and a grad. student that were hired as “emergencies” did fill or were at least much closer to filling than Mulford (Weaver of course filled). Unless your incoming class is much stronger or more engaged than the last (really doubt, though the results for biology are impressive with Spell being the first to fill. Maybe the students taking biology or doubling are better than normal, or at least more conscious about choosing profs. than normal), the same stupid behavior will likely occur again and such stupidity will ultimately benefit you. Just sit back and relax. Many freshmen much rather choose an unknown than someone they know will challenge them, even if they know the teaching will be significantly worse. I don’t know why because grades will end up curved favorably in harder sections and unfavorably in easier sections (McGill and Mulford ultimately control grade distributions and aim to achieve a similar one across sections, The only type of easy section that can avoid being curved downward is a section so small that it hardly effects the overall chem 141/142 grade distribution and last year, that was the grad. student. Tovrog curved down/increased the threshold for A’s), but that’s just the way it is. </p>