<p>I tried getting my friend to post this herself, but she's a bit depressed at the moment and didn't really feel like it after being crushed by the administration at her school.</p>
<p>She transferred to this school with well above the 60 credit minimum to choose classes early, and was still forced to wait 2 days until after everyone else at the school who hadn't transferred had picked their classes. Naturally, this means she wasn't likely to get any of the classes she needs in order to achieve her degree.</p>
<p>Because her university has utterly screwed her over, she will now have to stay at that college for 3 years just to get her degree instead of the 2 years that would normally be required for it, simply because she couldn't get the classes she needs. She only has financial aid for 2 years, and can't afford a third year.</p>
<p>The worst part is, even though there isn't room for enough people in the classes, the university will be allowing in an extra 2,000 people in the Spring and more after that, with tuition fees steadily increasing.</p>
<p>What can my friend possibly do to ensure she does not have to stay at this school for 3 years? She's an Anthropology major, if that at all helps.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn’t give up just like that. Has your friend spoken to advisors and heads of departments? Has she sent written letters? Written letters accomplish more than emails or phone calls. Don’t just accept that she only has two more years of financial aid or that she can’t work something out. There are almost always more student loans you could get or something. It could very well be that a week after the semester or quarter begins, enough people drop from the classes she needs that she can get what she needs to take. Things like that happen. Schedule appointments with financial aid advisors, academic advisors, transfer people, scheduling people, the professors who teach the classes she needs (they might arrange to have her crammed in).</p>
<p>I am similarly apalled at Maryland for considering to increase its enrollment…the main problem with the school is that classes are too big, it’s hard to get into certain majors because they don’t have the manpower for their current enrollment, etc.</p>
<p>But, at Maryland, even if you don’t get the classes you want when you pre register, you can get put on a waitlist and most people can get into the classes they need if they attend their waitlisted courses through the first week of classes (most people on the waitlist will drop off, some people who were actually signed up will drop out, sometimes the prof will over enroll by one or two). Is there a similar system at your uni?</p>
<p>If she can’t get the classes she needs next term at all, then she could take a semester off and work. (I’m assuming that it was this one time thing that she had to register late).</p>
<p>If there is a wait list for the classes she wants to get into, then she should get on the wait list. Every time I’ve been on a wait list, I’ve gotten into the class before the semester started, even the list was like 40 people long. Also, I would tell her to just go to the classes even if she isn’t enrolled, and ask the professor to let her in and explain the circumstance.</p>