<p>Hey-
I got accepted to a small liberal arts school and I was using an online search they had. It seemed like a VERY LARGE number of their classes next year are "waitlist only" or "closed". Will us freshmen have to take the scraps when we're designing our schedules this summer/fall? Are there usually built in spots for freshmen who can't register in April with the rest of the school?
thanks-
Amber</p>
<p>bump! Please answer! I really want to know!</p>
<p>Which LAC are we talking about?</p>
<p>Usually, you send in registration material and get the classes you need...sometimes you can't get one of the classes, but it is unusual to have been closed out already.</p>
<p>Also, they usually block out spaces for freshmen. Those "closed" and "waitlist only" were probably for current student. </p>
<p>At least that's how they do it at my small LAC.</p>
<p>weekes, first, Colgate did registration for students a while before you checked, which is why classes are now fully registered. </p>
<p>However, remember you're going to be fairly constrained as to the courses you have to choose from among your first two years in order to meet Colgate's Core requirements. Within those requriements you should have no problem getting what you want and need at some point. You will also get to pick from a very very wide variety of freshman seminars so even though those classes are very small you will be sure to get something you will enjoy and want to take. The hard part will be reading between the lines and narrowing down your choice of an fsem to choose. After choosing your fsem, you will then also get to pick from a number of the required, Core courses. When you make out your schedule sometime in the summer, you will be asked to choose a couple of alternates and then Colgate will put together a schedule for you. First semester they divide the class up into several groups, the one with first preference first time around gets a lower preference second semester and so on, so that everyone gets a shot at some point in first crack at courses.</p>
<p>Also after first semester, once you're up there, some courses get listed as filled up, but then open and profs will e-mail you to tell you about opennings so you can switch.</p>