<p>I recently got accepted as a Transfer for Winter 2012 and I registered for my Advising and Orientation session already, buttt I have one more quick question - can we take only one class at UW for our first quarter, and three others at our local community college?</p>
<p>I got into three good and hopefully easy online classes from my community college, and I would get my AA after finishing up those three classes. I was thinking about taking one class at UW for Winter, and then taking three in Spring and all the other quarters.</p>
<p>No. Unless they give you an exception. You have to take those classes at UW.</p>
<p>I know that I got robbed for some class credit because no one told me sternly not to do it. I’m doing you a favor. Don’t worry about the AA unless you want to defer your start at UW entirely until the Spring (which, of course, is not allowed so just go to UW)</p>
<p>You could take the minimum number of credits to be a full time student, then take another class at a CC. That way it’s slightly more of a compromise.</p>
<p>Edit: Whoops, should have said that you wouldn’t be really saving money… but if you’re going for GPA, this is an option.</p>
<p>Ohh I was gonna ask the same question since it seems like almost all of the classes are full at UW. Guess I won’t be registering for classes at my CC then!</p>
<p>Not too sure if they will make exception for all of the classes but I heard that for some classes when they’re full they’re full (such as classes that say “no overload”). I could be wrong though</p>
<p>I was a transfer student for fall 2011 and all of my classes were full by the time I registered on Aug 3. However, I got into all of them by refreshing the enrollment summary page until a spot opened up. People drop all the time, so it’s definitely possible to get into classes that are already full. You might have to exert some effort, though. Then, in the next quarter, you get priority so there are no more problems; I got all of the classes I want for winter quarter without a problem.</p>
<p>Some classes that have labs, like chem, are definitely no overloads just because there isn’t space in the labs for extra people. However, talk to the profs during the first day of class; they’re generally understanding and <em>will</em> try to get more people in the class as long as it isn’t a fire hazard. </p>
<p>One of my courses last Spring was supposed to have only 55 people in it, but the prof managed to overload it to around 75 people.</p>
<p>The vast majority of classes are full when they are full.
As Kayley said, people do drop often (I’ve found the 1st day of classes is really the best day, but you have to be quick before someone else grabs it.)</p>
<p>The best talking to a professor has got me was my name on their wait list (some prof’s keep them, others don’t). I’ve had more luck waiting for an opening to show up</p>
<p>Regardless, if you want in a class bad enough…you will get in.</p>
<p>My advice is to NOT use uwrobot (a $5 service that finds an open class and texts you). The first 2 times I used it it worked ok (only checked every 7 min tho…which honestly for some classes is too long). But the 3rd time, it didn’t work at all. Didn’t check for openings or anything. I emailed the owner and he never replied to my emails, never fixed it, and never refunded my money.</p>
<p>Oh, and here’s something no one told me but I figured it out on my own. look at your class dep’t time table (or click my link above for an example). On the top right hand corner look where it says:
Enrollment and status (open/closed) were accurate when this page was created (12:07 am December 3, 2011) but may have changed since then. For current enrollment and status, check the Enrollment Summary. (UW NetID required.)</p>
<p>Click “enrollment summary”. That will give you a real time update as to if there are any slots open in the class. For competitive classes that alot of people are trying to get into it’s important to look there instead of the main page to jump on an open slot</p>
<p>I will admit, the night before registration I woke up around midnight and it let me register. Since this is not something UW officially says you can do/it will work I cannot guarantee it will work for anyone else. I don’t know definitively what their internal rules are (as in, whether me being able to register was a mistake or if it is always set to open up shortly after midnight and they don’t tell anyone)</p>
<p>Kind of a moot point though, since no one else on my date tried to register until after orientation was over (I looked stats of classes didn’t change until after orientation).</p>
<p>So if I’m going to the orientation on the 9th I MIGHT be able to register for classes at 12:00am 9th? My friend keeps telling me only the advisers could let you in classes you want for the very first quarter.</p>
<p>I signed up for classes shortly after midnight the day of the orientation. </p>
<p>My adviser on orientation day was a POS who didn’t do anything for me. He didn’t even answer basic questions I had saying it was someone elses department. (To be fair, after I made a complaint about him I found out that he was brand new…but for me it was a completely worthless. And the person I complained to said even though he is new, he should’ve been able to help me). <strong><em>NOTE</em></strong> this is my personal experience, I just happened to get a crappy person. most of the advisers I’ve talked to since are REALLY good and helpful.</p>
<p>But to answer your question, you should be able to sign up for the classes yourself on the orientation date</p>
<p>(also if your friend was an incoming freshman…they might have diff rules then transfer students. if your friend was a transfer student: i have no idea why they are telling you that. unless they just assumed and never tried it out themself)</p>