<p>I check the availability for certain courses and ISIS says they are available, but when I try to enroll, I have to sign up on the waitlist. Why say the course is available when it really isn't?</p>
<p>ISIS can only tell if there are empty spots in the course, it doesn't know if the professor has restricted the course to the waitlist. Just sign up for the waitlist, it'll be okay.</p>
<p>Also the COD only updates every few hours, so if it looks like the class is open someone else may have already taken the spot.</p>
<p>right navin, but worldshopper is checking course availability on ISIS which is real-time.</p>
<p>I am having the same problem...it looks like there are open spots, but I had to sign up for the waitlist too.</p>
<p>ISIS...:mad:</p>
<p>31 spots available, but I would still need to sign up for the waitlist....</p>
<p>I'm beginning to think that it gets updated every few hours.</p>
<p>what class?</p>
<p>Why would the prof restrict the course to waitlist?</p>
<p>I have been trying to get into a Spanish class...with little luck.</p>
<p>The other class with the alleged 31 spots available (well at the time) was an Intro to Philosophy class.</p>
<p>Shaddix: Me too -- trying to get into Spanish 311 and am currently on 2 waitlists (same course, different days/times). ISIS says it is available but when I try to add the course, I cannot, can only go on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Same with me...I am trying to fill a 9:30-10:45 time slot so I am on 4 waitlists, all for Spanish classes around that time frame. Hopefully we will both get lucky and get into the classes.</p>
<p>I checked ISIS yesterday and again several Spanish 311 classes showed up as being available. I hit "add class" and this time it let me do it without going on the waitlist! I am so pleased I got in! Even my cousin who just graduated from UVA said it I wouldn't be able to get into Span 311 being a first-year student. My schedule is now complete and I am now enrolled in ALL of the courses I wanted to take first semester! Yipee!</p>
<p>1) if a class becomes full, and a professor starts a waitlist, it doesn't matter if people drop out after the waitlist has started. you still need to be added through the waitlist. usually this happens either 4th year down to 1st year, or earliest to sign up to latest to sign up. if you know the professor, you might get a bump up.</p>
<p>2) isis isn't "real time." notice the update time. usually they update in the morning, and then whatever changes happen during the day arnt seen.</p>
<p>jags for #2 you're talking about the COD not ISIS. The "course availability" feature on ISIS is real time.</p>
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<p>Bull, I knew 3 first-years who to SPAN 311 and one of them breezed through it. The only reason why you got 311 is that there is one section not resistricted to the online waitlist. I just went on ISIS and enrolled in the class and dropped in a matter of 30 seconds.</p>
<p>^^I've been trying for weeks to get into a 311 class and all of them said I had to be on a waitlist. I also tried other upper level courses in Latin American Studies and also had to be on a wailist. Math121 -- same thing and I even wrote the instructor who promptly replied that he was going to hand pick who got off the waitlist and I was number 29 on the list.</p>
<p>My cousin made the remark about never getting off the waitlist for upper level classes if you are a first year student because most of them are reserved for students who need the course to graduate.</p>
<p>Those three first years I knew made it through the waitlist last year, worldshopper. That's why I found your cousin's comment a bit wrong. I know plenty of classes that give spots to students who need them for graduation, but others are fair to all students. </p>
<p>Also, there might be a lesson behind this situation: "Perhaps if you wait, things can go your way." I was in a sticky situation with these two classes that I needed but were right after each other and on different sides of grounds. I couldn't find any other sections of one of the classes that fit my schedule until recently.</p>
<p>I just checked ISIS and all 311 classes are waitlist only. My post about getting the class was that it was NOT from the waitlist -- I instantly enrolled. That was why I was kind of shocked, but very pleased.</p>
<p>Span 311 should be a breeze (just like it was for the 3 people you know) because it is just review. It's not a hard class, just a hard class to get in to first year, first semester. </p>
<p>I was prepared to continue staying on the waitlist for two other 311 sections but in the meantime, I was still going to check ISIS daily to see if I could get that class. Had I just waited hoping to receive an email about the waitlist and not checked ISIS daily -- perhaps I would not have got a spot in the class.</p>
<p>"I just checked ISIS and all 311 classes are waitlist only."
Actually, no they're not. There is one on TR at 11 that is not restricted and as of the last COD update has 4 spots open.</p>
<p>I'm talking about ISIS not the COD.</p>