<p>Do people at orientation have an advantage of getting into classes compared to those who do it online? Do they get priority?</p>
<p>I’d think you have better priority if you applied online given you have a late Orientation date. Despite what the brochure or pamphlet claims about reserved spaces, later dates are at a disadvantage. I know firsthand coming from a last orientation session when there were only 4 or 5 unfilled GEs floating around and half of them were freshly opened on our session to give students some minimal form of class selection. -.-</p>
<p>Hey SentimentGX4,
Can I ask you more about you being in the last orientation? That looks like what it is going to be for me,… or the second to last session. So, do you think it would be worthwhile to shuffle my summer a bit so I can get into that 2nd to last session… does it even matter at this point? Also, can I register online AND go to orientation? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>no you can’t register online AND go to orientation. you’ll get the classes you need no matter what orientation session you go to, but there’s no guarantee that you’ll get the most-desired teachers or selection.</p>
<p>You could always try to sneak into some of the orientation presentations in Moore 100.</p>
<p>Hey, </p>
<p>I was one of those few people who didn’t go to orientation. They gave me a registration time that was probably around the time that the fourth to last orientation session did. </p>
<p>In my case, I’m a life science major, so I was trying to enroll in Chem 14A at the time. It was closed during my appointment time, but a few days later, more sections opened up and I managed to get in. I think that for classes like these, you have a good chance of getting into them. </p>
<p>However, it’s definitely harder to get classes if you have a later time or a really late session. Basically you are the last of all UCLA students to enroll in classes. My roommate had the last session, and she took GEs because the classes she wanted were all full.</p>
<p>I also didn’t go to orientation, as I spent most of the summer in community college classes and couldn’t take time off, and I wasn’t exactly sure that it was worth the cost. Quite surprisingly, the enrollment time that I was assigned turned out to be definitely better than I would have gotten had I gone to a late session, and I showed up in the fall understanding university policy better than those that I talked to who went. When I was enrolling, most of the available classes were GEs, but I was happy to find many that I actually wanted or at least would be willing to take. As the above poster said, as later orientation sessions occur, some of the more popular classes open up, and you can make changes then if you still wish to. </p>
<p>If you don’t go to orientation, I think that you are supposed to attend a first year student workshop before you’ll be allowed to see a counselor. I went to it, and it wasn’t terribly helpful, but it was a more convenient option. </p>
<p>The one thing that I really regret is not trying to add a waitlisted class in the first quarter. The odds of getting into a class off a waitlist are way higher than I first thought.</p>