<p>We started registering for classes a while ago, and unfortunately I ended up getting a late registration date compared to all my friends. I'm trying to get into a certain class, but unfortunately is it nearing full capacity, and I am worried that by the time I can register, I won't be able to get in. I need this specific class because it is the only class that can fit into my schedule, and if I don't get in, I have to kick out another one of my language classes, and it's only offered once every spring semester. If I don't take this language class next semester, I have to wait a whole entire year before I can get into it again, and I'm worried I'll fall behind. Is there anything I can do? Should I just register for the other class and hope omeone drops it later? Or what?</p>
<p>Have you had this particular professor before? Is there anyway you can talk to him/her and explain why you really want to be in this class and ask them to make an exception? I don’t know how common that is on your campus, but it’s fairly common on mine.</p>
<p>At my college, pretty much everyone I know who asked got some special exception made. Half of my classes for next semester were full when I registered. Just dropping by the professor’s office or sending him an email can get you a long way.</p>
<p>You could also ask a friend of yours to add/drop the class for you, ie. add the class until you can register and then drop it right as you add it so that there is definitely a slot for you.</p>
<p>Sometimes, if you know the instructor well (and they’ve been there long enough to have some lee-way) they can request to the Dean of their dept to allow one more student. Where I go in most cases the Dean allows 1 extra above the cap. EX: 21 to be enrolled in a 20 class.
-If there is a fee deadline and your college does registration mostly online. Wait till the midnight deadline. Where I went at this time it was quite common for full classes to have some spots open up. Some students including myself got some really good instructors at the last min because of this.
-This again is pending your school’s policies, but there is often a 4 day Refund period. Where a student can choose to drop the course completely a get a refund (or switch class) and its wiped off their transcripts completely. This lets full classes have some spots open it. Maybe there is a waiting list for that particular class?</p>
<h2> Doesn’t hurt to make a few phone calls to ask around. </h2>
<p>@jojoyohan, be careful about that. At some schools that is considered academic dishonesty. At my school at least we have been told that we can get in serious trouble if we’re caught holding a class for anyone.</p>
<p>@purpleacorn: Yeah, I’ve had this specific teacher before. I want to get into her class because not only is she the better teacher, she’s the only teacher whose time I can fit in my schedule or else I have to drop my second semester language class, and if I drop it, I won’t be able to take it again until a year later and I don’t want that to happen and fall behind. I kinda worry that she’ll just say “sorry I don’t have room”, but unlike everybody else I always attend the lectures. Since it’s a big lecture class I don’t think she knows me very well.</p>
<p>@Chandi: Is that really true? Because at my school people add/drop classes whenever they feel like it like crazy, so I feel like our school would really care if we do that.</p>
<p>You’re generally allowed to add/drop whatever you want as long as you meet the prerequisites, and I don’t know if it’s a school wide policy, it may specifically be an Honors College rule. Honors College students here used to get priority registration (as in the second day, after athletes and students with disabilities), so there was a problem with Honors College students saving seats for friends who wouldn’t have been able to register themselves until weeks later, and we were warned not to do it. I don’t remember what the penalty was or how they would have found out, it’s just something to be aware of…</p>
<p>Now they’ve changed the system so that Honors College students don’t have priority, and instead it’s sorted by credit hours and GPA- so seniors with high GPAs will go second after athletes/students with disabilities, so it’s more likely that the people who really need specific classes to graduate on time will get them.</p>