<p>How does the "swap" work on august 4th?</p>
<p>Do I simply select from classes that I am already enrolled in, and then it switches with the classes that I selected from my enrollment requests?</p>
<p>basically what I'm asking is: does the "swap" feature let you swap with courses on your enrollment requests? or do you have to do something special to use the swap feature?</p>
<p>you’ll just have to try it out… i know for sure it doesn’t drop you from the class you’re swapping out of if the other class is full though!</p>
<p>On a side note, for 1st-years, is the max. number of credits you can have at all time really 15?</p>
<p>(I ask because it seems like altering one’s schedule would be quite a gamble if that’s the case. You’d have to drop a class first to add a diff. one, yes? I’m most concerned about dropping a class and then not catching the window of opportunity on the one I want to add and then also missing the window of opportunity to re-add the class I dropped. Does that make sense?)</p>
<p>I thought it was 17</p>
<p>I’m in SEAS so policies are different for us, but as far as I know, CLAS limits registration to 15 credits before August 4 (or the equivalent spring semester date), and 17 credits during open registration after that, in an effort to make registration more fair (so priority people can’t grab everything).</p>
<p>cheburashka, the swap functionality avoids that issue – you tell SIS to swap one class you’re currently enrolled in for another. If when you execute the command, you can’t register for the second class, the transaction won’t complete and you won’t be dropped from the first class.</p>
<p>In the College you can have more than 15, I came back from orientation with a schedule that was a total of 16 credits. I think the absolute max is 18 credits, and the average number of credits people take a semester is 15, and the recommended for first years is 15.</p>
<p>At orientation, I was told that you could register for 16 credits there, and then were capped at 17 i think for the first semester. 18 might be the correct number though.</p>
<p>Course Load Special permission is required to register for fewer than 12 credits or more than 17 credits each semester. Any student who completes fewer than 12 credits receives an academic warning (see below). Students who register but enroll in no courses have their registration terminated.</p>
<p>-Undergraduate Record</p>
<p>I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems like this 1st-year cannot exceed 15 credits. Why? I do not know. All I know is that when I tried adding a COLA class (worth 1 credit) to my 15 credits of classes, the message SIS gave me was: "Error: Unable to add this class - term maximum exceeded. Adding this class would exceed the maximum number of units or courses allowed for this term. "</p>
<p>:( Disappointment.</p>
<p>The same thing happened to me. I could not add a 1 credit seminar to my 15 credit schedule. I’m so confused.</p>
<p>I just tried to swap a class and it won’t let me go passed 15 credits…</p>
<p>If you click on “Enrollment Dates” from the home page, it says the max total units is 15 but the max waitlist units is 17.</p>
<p>Aha! It appears to have been fixed. Just added a COLA. Now up to 16 credits. Fantastic. :)</p>
<p>On SIS, is it possible to swap a lab time and maintain the same lab lecture? I am waitlisted for a lab, but I just received a notification that stated that I have been enrolled in another class that was occurring at the same time as the lab, so I was wondering, can I still maintain my waitlist position but change the lab times?</p>
<p>No, you will drop the whole class to switch labs. It’s a serious problem that was a super pain in the spring when 500 people in cs101 wanted to switch labs but the class was on waitlist.</p>