<p>A long time ago, when I was submitting college application, my parents strongly urged me to go to a private school if the cost was similar to that of a UC. One big reason was that they had heard horror stories about the UC's in which the student had trouble getting the classes they needed/wanted and ended up having to waitlist themselves and 'crash' the class.
Do Cornell students have similar problems? Or do you guys pretty much have no trouble getting all the classes that you want?</p>
<p>I'm not a student quote yet(one month to go!), but from what I understand, as long as you sign up on time one shouldn't have too much trouble getting classes they need. Now classes do still fill up like at any school so occasionally one might not be able to take a class they want, but its no where near as bad as it is at the UCs. Anything needed for your major should have plenty of sessions though, it would probably be more popular, but smaller, electives that are harder to get.</p>
<p>Well if there is class you need for your major, i doubt you will have difficulty getting into the class. However, if there is famous class such as psych 101 or class 236 etc. you want to take, then once the class reaches its enrollment limit then you will have trouble getting into the class.</p>
<p>Prism123 is right, if you sign up early for aclass then there is a high chance you will get that class you want!</p>
<p>I wish ILR made the teachers teach an extra class for the popular ones. I had to do a lot of last second schedule re-arranging because classes were full. :(</p>
<p>This may or may not be relevant to the discussion, but I hear that small colleges offer small class sizes...but they often don't have as much specialized course selection as larger colleges (for obvious reasons). And as you go up in classes, there are less and less people...</p>
<p>In Engineering, most classes don't even have caps, so it's generally not a concern -- but for popular classes it's hard to get into them (e.g. ENGL 280, creative writing -- fills with mostly seniors/juniors, so hard to get into it as sophomore/freshman...).</p>
<p>Sorry to be a bother, but could you tell me what UC stands for? I've always thought it mean University of California...</p>
<p>it does mean University of California.</p>
<p>Thus why the OP meant his/her parents told him/her to only go to a private school if it were the same price as a public school such as UC.</p>
<p>Sapere, are you a classics major?</p>
<p>No, but I see you've gotten the reference. Congratulations :p</p>
<p>Is there some of of priority registration system in place? ie: majors register for required classes first, then senior, then sophomores, etc.</p>
<p>Yes pre-enrollement is priority based. So seniors pre-enroll first followed by juniors then sophrmores then freshmen.</p>
<p>hmm this does not bode well for my plan to take psych 101 first semester : l</p>
<p>Well don't be discouraged because there are reserved seats for freshmen. Besides there is always add/drop period. If you are persistent enough, you can get to any class you want.</p>
<p>is it possible to just go to the psych 101 lecture occasionally without being enrolled? I've been hearing about how enchanting a lecturer James Maas is from my mom and my aunt and also current students and at this point I really have to see him.</p>
<p>Yea sure! You can basically attend any lectures for any class without being enrolled but you can't take the test! Professor Mass's lecture are amazing to people who have not taken psych before.</p>