<p>Im wondering how registering for classes works? How often do you get your first choice course, and do you also pick what teacher you want? Which majors are usually packed?</p>
<p>Bump. anyone?</p>
<p>Freshmen will have a hard time getting 'interesting classes' because they have the last registration windows.</p>
<p>It works that seniors go first (and that class is divided into three registration windows), then juniors, then sophomores, and then freshmen. Freshmen will find out what their registration windows are once they enroll in May.</p>
<p>registration windows are decided by the last 2 digits of your student ID. For incoming freshmen, windows usually open successively at noon sometime in July. </p>
<p>Registration is done 100% online on ACES. You bookbag (select) the classes you want one to two weeks beforehand, when your window opens, you click register and your entire bookbag is registered at the same time. </p>
<p>Whether or not you can get the class you want depends on the popularity of the teacher/class and the number of spots still available when your window opens. Typically, for freshmen, some classes will be full already from the senior/junior/soph registration in April. It also depends somewhat and how fast you can click that registration button because at noon on that day, there'll be about 500+ students clicking that button.</p>
<p>thanks for the replys. </p>
<p>Also, do specific courses have numerous teachers teaching the same course per semester or is it one teacher teaching every single class? If there are numerous teachers, then will their names be posted next to the course during registration?</p>
<p>Depends, some classes like Math 103, 107, 108 that many people needs to take but still requires small class sizes will have many teachers. Others like Chem 23 will have one teacher teaching a lecture of 200 kids and TAs doing smaller recitations. And then there are classes in between where you have 2-3 teachers each teaching a big lecture section.</p>
<p>Most of the time teachers' names will be posted, but sometimes (especially with math), it'll just say department staff or something. Then you can just wait to be pleasantly surprised!</p>
<p>BTW: a bit early to start thinking about registration ain't it? I mean, it's not for another 7 months at least.</p>