<p>So, as somebody on the West Coast, I was pulling an all-nighter so that I could register all my classes right at 9:00 A.M. EST to guarantee that I would get in.</p>
<p>I lay down to take a short nap at like 4:15 and then wound up sleeping for 4.5 hours, so that when I woke up it was around 11:35 on the East Coast.</p>
<p>I still somehow got into everything I wanted. Exactly. They were all still open. Intro to International Relations, American Political Campaigns, Intermediate Micro, and even the AEM Entrepuership course.</p>
<p>I have no idea how. Do they like... let all of the last people in and then kick people out or something? How was a class with a professor as famous as Katzenstein still open after two hours? And I thought AEM classes are like impossible to get in for freshmen... Do they kick you out or something if a CALS major wants in?</p>
<p>^^
What are the odds of that, though?.. There has to be some logical answer, like me picking unpopular classes or something… But a Katzenstein class must absolutely have been one of the most popular.</p>
<p>^
I’m happy and all, but I feel like you’re secretly given numbers based on when you registered, and they’ll kick you out later if someone wants in and you have a high number.</p>
<p>Not sure if you read my posts in the other thread, but make sure you actually “Checked Out” and that you can see the courses on student center under “My Class Schedule > List view/Calendar view”</p>
<p>Yeah you were lucky in that respect. I myself was going for a physics class in the discussion and lab portion that both only had 1 seat. One of the lectures had 11 seats, while the other had 9. So in total there were 20 seats. There were a lot of other discussion / lab that also had 1 seat at other times.</p>
<p>So at, 8:59:30 I did a final check for add class, and it was closed, and I went back to student center home page. Then exactly when it hit 9:00:00 I clicked add and quickly inputted the discussion class number and was very quick on lecture / lab select – at most it was 9:00:05 when I was proceeding to step 2 and some other people had already claimed two / five other possible lab times (they turned to blue squares), and by 9:00:10 I finished enrolling. By 9:30:00 physics was booked in all lecture / discussions sections.</p>
<p>My other classes still have some space left, not as much as it was at 9:00 though. So from my take usually the science classes fill up really fast, and it certainly was intense, I couldn’t even imagine how people would beat me in less than 10 seconds, but thankfully they weren’t going for my times.</p>
<p>My daughter did her homework, and went on-line at exactly 9am. Chose all her classes but when she went to chack out, she got a message that said there was a “hold” on her account and she couldn’t yet register. Many calls from she and I ensued. Apparently she and some other kids who attended Cornell Summer College last year were mistakenly puit on Hold through some sort of computer error. We got it cleared up by 9:45am but by then her preferred Bio 1350 section was filled up. Not tragic, but we’re not happy.</p>
<p>^
Yeah, but what about the AEM Entreupeneurship courses? I thought AEM was closed to non-CALS freshman entirely for the fall semester.</p>
<p>And Intro to International Relations and American Politics Campaigns aren’t even filled up by now. The former has 45 spots left out of 250, and the latter has 41 out of 100. Wow. There was no need for me to be paranoid at all. I thought I would need to have like a fifteen-second reaction time to get into Katzenstein’s class…</p>
<p>My older daughter never had any problem in getting courses she wanted. My younger one just signed up for 8 courses last week. She will drop 3 of them before drop/add period ends. Cornell has multiple schools offering same courses sometimes, therefore it makes it much easier to get into courses you want. This is one of the perks in going to a well funded private school.</p>
<p>^
8? Aren’t CAS students capped at 18 credits? </p>
<p>I have 18 credit hours right now… I think that’s too much for my first semester, so I will probably drop one or both of my AEM classes. (2 and 1 credit hours.)</p>
<p>My son is currently signed up for 19 credits including intermediate yoga (should help with stress). I don’t think it will be too much, but he could drop one during add/drop week. He has math 2230, FWS, music 2305 (history of Punk), French 2060 (best guess on placement), and psych 2650 (psych and law).</p>
<p>We were surprised at how easy sign-up went, though we did need to contact the school after the first three classes were done. The system stopped accepting more after that, so the school did the last two classes for him. His high school schedule was so intense (lots of AP classes, dual enrolled with college classes), this doesn’t seem like much.</p>