<p>I am on the waitlist for Chem 3AL lecture not because the lecture itself is full, but because all the lab sections are. I think I'm around 30 on the waitlist. Do I still have a chance of getting in?</p>
<p>do you remember what number you were on the WL for the lab section you signed up? That’s what matters more than the WL for lab lecture.</p>
<p>I’m 30th on the waitlist for the lab section.</p>
<p>Nevermind, it looks like some lab sections don’t allow waitlists, and others have large waitlists, while the lecture is fairly open. Maybe try to look at all of the ones with waitlists and try to get a better position. Or contact them because that seems to be too weird to be intentional (unless they want to have a lot of people on the waitlist and manually process them).</p>
<p>It’s intentional. They want to “centralize” the waitlists. So on the first day, Lucia B (the coordinator) will get the waitlist people to line up, and start assigning them into whichever section has a spare seat.</p>
<p>However, this means you CAN cheat. Let’s say someone in a section without waitlist drops. Hey, now you can enroll!</p>
<p>You aren’t allowed to switch sections to skip the waitlist, because Lucia B WILL pull you out of your section on the first day and give your place to a waitlister. BUT, if you drop and re-add the entire course in the new section, that is valid. They can’t stop you from doing that.</p>
<p>So, would you suggest that I stick it out and remain on the waitlist for Chem 3AL or should I just give up, drop that class, and add another class I know for sure I want to take right now for Phase I?</p>
<p>I waited it out, but in Phase 2, dropped and re-added anyway.</p>
<p>If that class is Phase 2-able, then just wait. If seats are gonna run out… well it’s your call. You really have to spend a lot of time stalking Info-Bears to get this to work.</p>
<p>I thought you can only get pulled out of lab for making changes after Phase 2? Where does it say that you cannot switch lab sections? What if one of my friends switched but at that time, none of the labs were filled and there were no waitlists?</p>
<p>You get pulled out if you used the ‘switch sections’ feature to skip the waitlist (that’s what happened to a couple of people in my lab). I don’t know about adjustments made after Phase 2. I never tried playing with it so I don’t know if they banned anything to do with Chem 3AL on telebears during Adjustment, or if they pull people out for messing with it.</p>
<p>If there are no waitlists and none of the labs are filled, logically there shouldn’t be a problem. Logically. You couldn’t switch sections after Phase 1 for this semester. Looks like they didn’t put that line in for Spring…</p>
<p>That is weird. What is the difference between re-adding and switching sections to skip the waitlist? Why would switching get you pulled out but not re-adding.</p>
<p>Because switching is an obvious form of ‘cheating’. If you drop and re-add there’s nothing they can do about it. By doing that you’re risking the slot being filled up before you can re-add, though realistically, that never happens.</p>
<p>So switching lab sections is valid during phase I but not phase II? There is a line stating that lab sections switch cannot be made after phase I for the Fall schedule so I assume it applies to Spring as well. What do you think?</p>
<p>Probably. That’s why I thought you couldn’t switch sections after Phase 1. Because it was the way for this sem (I’m taking 3AL now). Thing is, I did try to switch sections in Phase 2. I couldn’t even do it. It’s not that you switch, and then get pulled out; it’s that telebears doesn’t even allow you to make that switch.</p>
<p>Basically you should try to get the section you want in Phase 1, and if it doesn’t work out, pounce on “holes” in Phase 2.</p>
<p>So switches during Phase 1 are valid but not after Phase 1? Just double checking.</p>
<p>Switches during Phase 1 are valid if and only if you’re adding to a section that doesn’t already have people on its centralized waitlist… or if you’re adding to the waitlist itself :)</p>