New Student Orientation in Late August - Am I screwed?

[kcbruin64]

So I registered for orientation today and the earliest session available was August 19. I’ve heard that certain classes are reserved for each session, but not to rely on that assumption because earlier sessions are unofficially “prioritized”. Is that true? I was admitted to pre-psychology and I know that I’ll need certain classes to be admitted to the official major. Will I be behind because of this?

[mikemac]

For courses where there is a “high demand”, we have in place a system whereby all students, regardless of New Student Orientation session date, have an equal chance of enrolling in the course. These “high demand” courses are ones that start out a sequence in the sciences, are taken by many incoming first year students (like English Composition courses), essential for certain majors, and/or are part of the General Education Cluster curricula.

Working with individual departments, we have saved seats for incoming students and divided them evenly during the summer. Does this mean we have enough seats for every single student that wants a given course? Not necessarily. But we have made it an equitable process; it does not matter if you come to the first session or the last, you will have the same chance of getting a spot in one of these courses.
http://www.newstudents.ucla.edu/firstyearstudents.htm

Why do you believe ucla would lie about this?

[kcbruin64]

Oh, I had no idea that official information from UCLA was available. Sorry!
But thank you for answering my question.

[LuckyName]

@mikemac some classes are first come, first serve though. not all of them are placed in a equal hold system.