<p>why is it that roughly 1,000 students are in chem 1a and only about 300 are in the lab sections?</p>
<p>and what is the likelihood that they will open up more labs?</p>
<p>Because there are fewer lab spaces than lecture seats. Think about availability: lecture is easy to seat a ton of people. Lab spaces are much more limited, time is much more restricted (4 hours per lab vs. 1 or 1.5 hours per lecture). You’ll meet a good number of students in lab who took lecture before but couldn’t get into a lab and so are taking lab later.</p>