First year classes already being filled?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>When I go to 'Schedule of Classes' in Tritonlink, I can see that there are already waitlists on some classes that for first year students because continuing students can waitlist already.</p>

<p>For example, for CS 8A, there's only one class, with a limit of 144 students, however 62 are already waitlisted. Does this mean that by the time new students are allowed to enroll, that class will be full!? </p>

<p>This is one of the most basic CS classes that's a prereq for almost everything else, so I'm kinda freaking out..</p>

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<p>62 people on the waitlist means that there are 62 people ahead of you when it comes to enrolling. You most likely won’t get in, unless they spontaneously decide to drop the waitlist (which they do sometimes). </p>

<p>Welcome to college.</p>

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<p>I read on the website somewhere that some classes are marked “full” because they are not open to continuing students (yet); they will be marked as “open” a few days before freshmen enrollment starts!</p>

<p>As for CS 8A, that seems to be a different story, since there is an exact number on the waitlist (62 rather than 0, like on some CHEM 6A and MATH 10A classes). Are you sure that’s the number of students on the waitlist and not the number of students enrolled in the class? Or maybe even the number of seats available?</p>

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<p>Why is it I see 0 total spaces/0 available spaces, and 62 waitlisted? o_O</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure they open more spots in august for freshman</p>

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<p>For CSE 8, I would assume that it is just closed until freshmen enrollment. If you look at it, it says the limit is 0. You can’t have a class with 0 people! I’m guessing 62 is the limit!</p>

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<p>yuuup. i remember this from last year when i was an enrolling frosh. us continuing students already signed up for classes, but they cap the classes that are designed for freshman students so that only a limited number of continuing students can get in. this way, you guys will be able to get your classes when your enrollment time comes. good luck, guys.</p>

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<p>I think they open up more classes when freshman enrollment starts. But as a general rule of thumb, the number on the left is the seats remaining and the number on the right is the total seats. If it says waitlist, then the number is the number of people waiting to get in the class, so the number over the total.</p>