<p>One of the classes I'm planning to Phase II has 150 lecture seats available, but only 100 discussion seats available (25 distributed amongst 4 sections), which I think is odd, because:</p>
<p>1) It's not a matter of a couple of unaccounted seats. There's 50 extra seats. Thats like another 1/3 can sign up but not get discussion seats.</p>
<p>2) There are ONLY 4 sections listed on the scheduling website. It's not like there's 6 discussions, 4 open and 2 closed. I know other classes open up closed sections as it gets more full, but there's nothing on the scheduling website that implies that there are more sections (except on MyEdu, which sometimes has errors)</p>
<p>I know the situation varies, but what's the general rule of thumb for these kinds of instances?</p>
<p>do the discussions have a waitlist? At calso, the counselor told us that if there’s not enough discussions, just add on to the waitlist and that allows them to see how many more discussion sections they should add for the class.</p>
<p>The number of lecture seats is determined pretty much only by the size of the lecture hall, and has nothing to do (necessarily) with how many people they will take into the class. </p>
<p>1) You can’t sign up for lecture without discussion; if there is no discussion available, telebears will not let you enroll for the class. In other words, classes are often limited not by the size of the lecture hall, but by how many discussion rooms or graduate student instructors are available to teach sections. </p>
<p>2) They can still add more sections if they find a GSI to teach the section and a room to hold it in. It’s up to the professor or person in charge.</p>
<p>Anyways, at this point you have to assume that your class will only have 100 slots, but it is possible that they could add more sections to accommodate more people.</p>
<p>Yes, this BS happens a lot; the available seats for the lecture does not match the total number of available discussion seats. Most of the time there are more discussion seats than lecture seats, but it appears you got an opposite case. Somebody will address this issue in the first day of class, and it is fixed afterwards so don’t worry if you can’t sign up for phase II.</p>