<p>Okay, most of us have already chosen our schedules. Most of us have carefully sifted through the hundreds of courses available to find the ones we need the most. BUT, that doesn't guarantee that we get those courses, right?</p>
<p>We've all set up our primary bookbags. If you try to register, you get taken to a page that shows you how many seats are availabe. WHAT DOES THIS NUMBER REALLY MEAN? Are we already counted in those seats? Have the sophomores, juniors, and seniors already picked their courses? When you choose courses, there's a red or green circle; red for full, and green for available. Does that mean that the number of seats available depends on how many people have chosen those courses in their primary bookbags, or how many upperclassmen have already registered for those courses? I DUNNO, I'M CONFUSED.</p>
<p>The numbers that you see, as well as the colored circles, correspond to the upperclassmen who have already registered. Putting a course in your bookbag does nothing until you register it. Once you register, you will be included in that number. There is nothing to tell you how many other people have that class in their bookbags.</p>
<p>Yeah-- since you haven't registered, you're not counted at all. How many seats available means the amount of seats upperclassmen haven't taken (we registered a few months ago). There could be (and in some cases, there is) way more students with a course in their primary bookbag than there are spaces available and there's absolutely no way of telling this. Basically, there is no guarantee that you're getting a course unless you're in focus, there's a huge lecture for freshmen, or you've spoken to the professor (little known fact).</p>
<p>any other questions, ask away. i am an aces wizard-- my friend who just graduated (the master of aces) has given me tips. and i love playing around on it</p>
<p>okay, so if there is a class that has very few seats left, I could just ask the professor if I can get in the class and I can get in? Even if I'm in the second registration window? How would I know if I'm in it or not?</p>
<p>Email the professor, tell them your situation, how interested you are in the class.... professors have power to extend the number of seats in a class. There's no guarantee that a professor will do it, especially first semester freshman year, but if the professor wants to be accomodating it's very possible (one freshman wound up in an upperclass English class of mine last year with 6 sophomores on the waitlist based on emailing the prof over the summer). Asking the prof doesn't mean that they'll let you in-- it just shows your interest, and they seem to like that.</p>
<p>A prof can't reserve an aces seat for you, but a lot of them keep their own class lists and waitlists. Once I wasn't enrolled in a class on aces since it was full, but a prof had me on his class list, so all I had to do was show up the first class and drop one of the classes I was enrolled in it. If it fills in window 1, you're just going to have to email the prof and check aces from time to time over the summer to see if there's any movement and just drop by on the first class.</p>
<p>also, people switch schedules around ALL THE TIME! if you don't get into a mildly popular class, stay on the waitlist as long as you can if you really want to be in the course. people switch classes at the last minute all the time, so just keep checking ACES.</p>
<p>BTW, for any of you that are interested in Art History or architecture courses, take a look at the "Gothic Cathedrals" course taught by Caroline Bruzelius. It's a course I've been wanting to take for a long time, but have never been able to fit into my schedule. I hear it's great, and you get to actually construct a cathedral at the end of it.</p>
<p>bsbllallstr speaks the truth. Constantly checking ACES got me into Chem 83 as a freshman (I later dropped it once Greek added new seats and then dropped that to grab an opening in a Latin class with an awesome prof). This year I managed to get into a later section of Stat 103 by means of what I honestly think was a glitch. It had a seven person waitlist, and I was not on it. But the registration view said there was "1 seat available,", so I grabbed it. :D</p>
<p>Ooh banana, I know why that happened. When grad students want to register for undergrad classes, they're automatically put on a waitlist until the end of drop/add, so that all undergrads have a chance to register before they get a shot. So technically it will say that there's a waitlist, and if you sign up after the course is full you WILL get put on the end of that waitlist (that part doesn't really make sense to me), but if a spot opens up and the waitlist is composed entirely of grad students, it will appear as an "open seat" so that an undergrad can grab it. Hope I explained that well...</p>
<p>Ahh, you'd be surprised. There was a 9 person waitlist for Latin Dance that I was able to get into when a seat became available, and my advisor told me that was the reason why. Didn't realize that grad students take Latin Dance either...oh well.</p>
<p>There was definitely a grad student in my Spanish 101 class 1st semester, if that helps any....that REALLY doesn't seem like the sort of class that a law student would take. Stats 103 might have a lot of law students wanting to take it (isn't that the statistics in the courtroom one? Maybe?)</p>
<p>EDIT: Just checked, sorry...that isn't it. Oh well. The course description says "Applications in economics, quantitative social sciences, and natural sciences emphasized," so maybe there are a lot of grad students taking it who need practical statistics background or something...who knows.</p>
<p>So, for freshmen, can we only start to register when it's 7/13/2006 because that's when the next enrollment window opens? I click on register and it only says that I can start to enroll then...</p>
<p>jis4jirafa - Freshmen start registering on the 11th. You are in the 3rd window, which is why your ACES website tells you that that's the earliest time you can register. 1/3 of the freshmen register on the 11th, 1/3 on the 12th, and 1/3 (including you) on the 13th. You cannot register until the designated time (12:00, I think) on your registration window's day.</p>
<p>Be thankful you get to register at noon. Waking up in time for a 7AM registration window is not fun, especially when you have a tendency to sleep through alarms and literally have to set four. :p</p>