this is so effing confusing (chem lab schedule)

<p>OKAY. i apologize for being retarded beforehand. </p>

<p>i was innocently looking through the course listing for general chemistry laboratory uno for FL2007, and i saw that all of them (8 sections?) only held 20 seats? from my interpretation, washu is only allowing about 160 students to take genchem lab 1? </p>

<p>i was so disgusted that i went back and looked up the same thing for FL2006, and i saw that the max. # of seats or whatever wasn't 20, but in the 80's and 90's. </p>

<p>can someone explain this thing to me?</p>

<p>I think that as time progresses(ie gets closer to first day of classes), more and more seats will be added. They do this to be fair to the people who aren't getting the opportunity to register until much later. If they started out with 90 seats open for every single lab, students who've been registering for classes since April could conceivably take up all the spaces in a couple of labs. This way, there's a more even and fair distribution. If I remember correctly, last year the labs started out in the low 20s as well (and rose to the 80s listed)</p>

<p>Also I think that if you really need to be in a particular lab section for scheduling conflicts, they're really understanding and you can generally get into the section you need.</p>

<p>As a sidenote, if they were only going to let 160 take it, they wouldn't have the lecture in LabSci 300 (the largest classroom on campus with.....300? seats....lol, haven't been on a tour in a while). Hope this helps to lessen your anxieties!</p>

<p>If I'm not going to one of the ArtSci weekends, am I totally screwed? I want to take GenChem, Physics and Calc (either II or III depending on what I place into), so does anyone knowledgeable think that I might not be able to get into any one of these classes? If I can't, I don't know what I'll do since it'll mess up my whole plan for what I want to study.</p>

<p>sgcollege: don't worry. For the intro-level courses, of course they will have enough spots for you and even if... let's say... scheduling doesn't work out for physics or something, WashU is pretty accepting about transfer credits for the intro classes too.</p>