<p>I'm an incoming transfer, and I haven't even gotten the chance to register for classes yet. Apparently those with registration priority already managed to fill up a lot of classes I wanted to take. Does this kind of situation usually resolve itself? Is there a huge chance of getting in as long as you're on the waitlist? It seems unlikely that people have to actually fight for spots all the time in a great university like UCSD, what's going on?</p>
<p>Don’t stress at alllll! Many of the classes appear full but when the time comes for new students to register, the system automatically opens up more seats in many classes. If you do end up waitlisting, it depends on the class how likely you are to get in. I personally have gotten into all classes I waitlisted this year (probably 4 or 5 total). In general, about 10% of the class will drop so that is a good rule of thumb if you should waitlist or find something else.
You’ll almost always be able to enroll in the classes you need, they just might not be at ideal times or with the best professors. Wait until it gets a little closer to your registration time to worry about this though :)</p>
<p>no worries</p>
<p>take some fillers or start doing 199s</p>
<p>@ ucsandiego915, they only open up lots of new seats for “freshmen” classes (lower divs/prereqs for upper divs like the Chem 6 Series, 20A/B, 10A/B, etc) My friends who all AP’ed into 20C were stuck with the same professor because he was the only one who had a few seats left. Classes like Chem 6A open up hundreds and hundreds of new seats, but I highly doubt that hundreds of seats will be added to other classes/upper divs in the future because of budget cuts, class cuts, etc.</p>
<p>That’s quite ridiculous then, how do they expect us to get into these classes? I don’t wanna be here for three years because I couldn’t get into classes. I mean if it was my fault cause I didn’t sign up early enough, sure, but my sign up appointment hasn’t even started yet!! What gives? I’m paying $8000 a year so I can not get into my classes?</p>
<p>kkiiji, I hope that you will be lucky and get into all the classes you wanted next semester. But there is a strong possibility that you will end up being shut out of at least one or two of those classes. If you don’t get off the wait list, you may have to settle for a different class section than the one you really wanted (different time and/or different professor). If that’s not an option, you will just have to defer that class until next semester – or even next year, if it’s only offered in the fall – and take some other class now. </p>
<p>Registering for classes means being flexible. I don’t know of any college that guarantees every student that they will get into every class they want to take when they want it. If they did, students would all be complaining that the class sizes were too large. The schools has to set some limits.</p>
<p>It will get better though. As you acquire more and more credits, you will rise in the registration priority – and eventually you will get first crack at the classes you want.</p>
<p>Yeah I guess coming from a community college setting I’m just not very used to this is all. I’ll deal with it I suppose. Hopefully I won’t have to end up staying for three years.</p>
<p>Radiance — thanks for the correction! That makes sense</p>