<p>Your’e lucky pal. My enrolment date was this afternoon, and guess what… all the classes but one are filled for Winter - and that class if you look on ratemyprofessor.com scored 1 out of 5. So go figure.
When I went to enrol in classes today - THEY HAVE ALL GONE, YEP…WINTER & EVEN SPRING. </p>
<p>So, how the heck am I supposed to enrol in winter and spring classes. I’m an International student, we pay very high fees, have to pay for accommodation and necessities and are NOT ALLOWED TO WORK IN USA.<br>
So, now, I’m stuck with not being able to enrol in winter - so i have to pay for accommodation and no classes. That is really shocking!!!
How can they do this to students. It is my first year and when I arrived at the beginning of the semester I was only given about 4 choices in subjects, and two of those were 8.00am and two were starting at 8.00pm.<br>
Where is the fairness there. We pay high fees and get nothing in return.
Can anyone let me know…is this a regular thing that happens?<br>
Do they just choose names out of the hat for their priority enrolment dates?
Why have I been given such a late enrolment date, when enrolments commenced mid November?</p>
<p>As you saw it was hard to get classes at CCCs in 2009. Since then there have been significant further cuts in the CCC budget. The reality is that the state does not have the money to fund CCCs at the level where they can guarantee every enrolled student can get into at least some courses. Unlike a UC or CSU, at least at a CCC if you do not get into any classes you do not have to pay any tuition.</p>
<p>I am sure that CCC would love to take your money since being able to collect non-resident tuition for a full load of classes brings in a lot more money than enrolling California residents.</p>
<p>In fact, what I think they should do is get rid of all enrollment times and priorities and just put each spot in each class up for auction and award them to the highest bidders. For example if a Math class has a capacity of 30 students, the CC should invite bids from all students interested in taking that class and award the 30 seats to the 30 highest bidders. I am sure that for some of the most impacted classes, instead of getting $46 per credit hour the CCC could take in $200 or more per credit hour. Unfortunately, despite its obvious benefits such a system would politically be a very hard sell.</p>