<p>Any freshmen out there able to overload yet? D has been checking OLR several times a day and has not been able to yet.</p>
<p>Also, if you are on a waitlist, do you just get an email letting you know if you get in the class? Should you contact the professor at some point or just go through your advisor? How does it work?</p>
<p>How much is she trying to overload by? She is in CIT, correct? If she is trying to overload by a certain amount (it varies from 1 to 12 units by college) she will need to get a form filled out and approved by her counselor before the system will allow her to overload. The form basically says “Hi I have a decent GPA and I am not trying to kill myself with schoolwork.” </p>
<p>I just asked a freshman buddy in HSS and he’s able to overload. So it may just be a CIT-being-slow issue.</p>
<p>Additionally, I know that the overload allowance is done after final grades but I’m not sure whether it is completed manually or by the system. It may be that her guidance counselor has to go to every student’s account on his list and check their GPA and then adjust their max units accordingly – in which case, he/she could just be late in doing so.</p>
<p>She’s in CIT and she’s overloading by less than 12 I know. Her advisor had sent a note to keep checking OLR and the system would just update. I asked her just now and she said he didn’t say anything about completing a form and thought just HSS people had to. Maybe CIT is slow like you mentioned.</p>
<p>Do you know about the waitlist question? If you get in, does that come through your advisor or do you need to actively try to get in?</p>
<p>As to the first bit - in that case, really the only thing to do is to wait until she can overload. It should happen soon. </p>
<p>Regarding waitlists: no, she will not be notified. Usually you just keep checking OLR until you see that you’re in the class. The waitlist moves automatically - should someone currently registered for the course drop it, the list will move everyone forward by one spot and will move whoever’s #1 on the waitlist into the class. The exception to this is with non-major classes in restricted programs; if she is trying to take a music class or a creative writing workshop, for example, she will be automatically waitlisted until the first day of class. At that time, the professor will determine if there is room for non-majors and then admit kids. </p>
<p>If the course is not something she absolutely HAS to take at this point, there is not much else you can do but wait and see if she gets off the waitlist. A guidance counselor will only put a student into a filled class if that student immediately needs that class (for example, a physics major trying to get into a calc section or a creative writing major trying to get into survey of forms). If she does not direly need the class, she can email the professor who teaches the course and politely express an interest in being put into the class/talk about how she is interested in the material. This has always worked for me in the past. It also helps to attend the first day of class and talk to the prof in person.</p>
<p>I’m a CIT freshman, and I still can’t overload. My roommate, who has Kurt as an adviser, said that he sent out an email saying that even though OLR says we should be able to overload on the 20th, apparently it really means the 20th or some time after that, so just keep checking.</p>
<p>I must be missing something ?
Why would anyone, especially a CIT freshman want to take more than 61 credits?</p>
<p>It’s tough enough with 5 classes, many 12 unit lab classes. Unless you’re talking about adding STUDCOs, even the 4.0 CIT student should limit things to remain sane and to enjoy the other part of college life-- clubs, research, activities, friends.</p>
<p>Freshman can only register for 50 units. Your basic four classes are around 43 credits so you can’t add a 5th class until you are approved for overload based on your first semester grades. Definitely wouldn’t want more than 5 classes which will be hard enough. Sounds like CIT is slow in approving the students. D has Kurt too and you are right - he said 20th or so, but she thought it would be before Christmas.</p>