<p>I'm number 12 for the monday Lab I signed up for and number 52 in the overall waitlist. Do I realistically have a chance for getting into this lab based off your guys's experience. Thanks alot.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how likely it is to get off the waitlist, but if I remember correctly, the Chem3AL sections work on a manual waitlist. I think you’d have a better chance just watching the enrollments like a hawk and then switching into a spot that opens up. Since it is a manual waitlist, when someone drops, the first person on the waitlist is not added in right away so you can take that spot if you happen to be patrolling telebears at the time. You really just have to get lucky/have lots of time on your hands, but if there are multiple sections that fit into your schedule, I think it’d be easier to get in this way.</p>
<p>that makes sense…but under the process column it says Auto, so I’m assuming it just does it by itself.</p>
<p>They may have changed it then. That was how my friend got into a lab last semester. It could also be that automatic waitlists tend to follow the waitlist order of the lecture. Therefore, if a space opens up in say a Monday lab, but the student that is #1 on the lecture waitlist is in a lab that is not open, then I think you can still switch into it.</p>
<p>auto waitlists don’t happen instantly, they occur at a fixed time, either end of week or end of day, can’t remember. Someone who spots the opening first has a shot of beating the #1 on the list to the slot. </p>
<p>When you are waitlisted in a lab (or dis) as well as a lecture, the lecture position doesn’t determine when you clear. Once you get into the lab for which you have waitlisted, the lecture comes along with it. Conversely, you can be near the front for the lecture but if others are ahead of you on the lab waitlist, they should clear first. Technicality - if there are multiple categories, then the first on the list who qualifies - e.g. if there is space for someone in XX major but not for juniors/seniors, then a junior who is #1 will not get in on that slot.</p>
<p>^^Ah, now I remember. I knew it had something to do with the timing of the waitlists. Thanks for clearing that up!</p>
<p>It is a frustrating system. Worked with someone on the waitlist for a lab (and therefore for the lecture), we couldn’t figure out how to switch to another lab when an opening popped up. Could have been an issue with a class where the waitlist was manual, but it seemed that it was set up so that only the department or instructor could clear someone, yet a new registration from someone not already waitlisted would have breezed through.</p>
<p>I think in that case, you have to drop yourself from the waitlist and quickly add yourself back into the open section. However, this is extremely risky as someone else could be thinking the same thing at the exact same time. If it doesn’t work out, it puts you back at the bottom of the waitlist, virtually impossible to get in.</p>
<p>exactly. all the time muttering horrible obscene things about telebears.</p>
<p>oooo??? when did u sign up??? This is so confusing? I have not yet sign up and don’t even knwo how to and you haev already signed up and is waitlisted??? whats going on here</p>
<p>so, really I should only be paying attention to being number 12 in line for the particualar lab I’m in right. I guess that isn’t horrible like 52. Yeah, and taking myself off the waitlist for that manuever may be to risky.</p>
<p>It might be horrible if the lab has only 25 spaces and you are number 12, as you are gambling that almost half the registered students will cancel or switch out. might work if it is an ugly unattractive timeslot, otherwise . . . .</p>
<p>The way they did it this last semester (if you didn’t magically see an opening before someone else took it) was you had to go to Latimer (the lab building) and give your name to Lucia Briggs, the head of the lab stuff. It doesn’t matter if you give her your name before someone else because its based on the waitlist number you have on telebears (I believe its the lecture waitlist number). But for that day and that time, if you’re number 12, and the first 11 don’t show up and there is a spot, you get in. Otherwise, poop.</p>
<p>yea, i was lucky enough to get off the waitlist this year. i started off at #4 in my lab and like 30 something in lecture and worked my way up. but once the year starts, its your lecture spot and LUCK,. you can show up to any labs u can fit in, and they will let ppl in based on how many no-shows they have. i left 5 open lab times in my schedule ,so mine was flexible and i got into my last one. but then again, i got in because someone overslept and someone didnt realize you can go to labs u didnt waitlist for. its LUCK.</p>
<p>T__T there are 26 spots and I’m 12. Man…this sucks. But I guess its not really in my hands. I’ll try keeping my schedule open and talking to GSI’s. Hopefully it works out…but then again I wonder if it ever does in these kinds of situations.</p>
<p>it works out most times, actually. A bit of luck but odds are decent.</p>
<p>The classes that are overfilled tend to have early drop dates - two weeks into the semester - which forces more people out early enough for you to get in if you are still waiting. You just need to have the discipline to attend lecture and do the work and studying for those couple of weeks while waiting to officially get in.</p>
<p>thanks rider. I’ll do that. Hopefully things will work out.</p>