<p>Can someone please explain to me what the point of having the instructor's permission required for enrollment in a freshman seminar is? On what would the professor base his decision to grant or deny you enrollment?</p>
<p>Also, what does it mean when a professor tells you that he, "as yet," has not offered you an override but that you should "talk to him if you have trouble enrolling." Isn't everyone going to have trouble enrolling without an override? </p>
<p>Am I missing something here? It's quite possible.</p>
<p>Professors have the ability to put on and take off the requirement of instructor permission whenever they want. It’s highly likely that that requirement will be taken off immediately before registration opens for you incoming freshmen, and you would be able to register for it normally. It’s a tool that allows professors to control who exactly can register for a class at a given time.</p>
<p>Just work off the assumption that that requirement will be lifted in time for you to register, which is why the professor wouldn’t be granting overrides. Overrides for a freshman seminar, once it hits 15/16/whatever, is somewhat unlikely, as these classes are usually held in small rooms with limited seating.</p>
<p>Possible explanations:
- If no one can enroll, the class will be canceled, and the professor has a nice vacation planned.
- “Talk to him if you have trouble enrolling” means pay him in cash for an override.
- The professor doesn’t want the class filled up by athletes, Murray scholars, and others with early registration privileges .</p>
<p>yea… the status of classes can change. If it’s a freshmen seminar, it should be open for general enrollment at freshmen registration time.</p>
<p>sometimes you will also see classes only open to people with certain majors, and a couple days later they open the rest of the spots to anyone else.</p>