<p>Fr daughter is on waitlists for all the classes she wants to take except Fr Studies. It seems like a rather difficult task to get what she wants. LU students: is this normal, or is there more students enrolled at LU this year than usual?</p>
<p>Just show up to class, usually there are lots of people that are registered but don't go to the class, so people on the wait list usually get in.</p>
<p>Sure enough, Kassos, daughter did get into her classes for this Fall term. So she is happy. Now for Winter and Spring....I believe she said she was 20 something on the waitlist for Fiction writing in the spring; she was less than 10 in the waitlist of the two courses this time around. Apparently, it is a course that is not be offered that much and so there is a lot of demand. I wonder if LU ever adds another section in such cases of high demand?</p>
<p>Let's suppose that you are talking about a course scheduled for, say, third term of this academic year. Lawrence is not likely to add a section just because of high demand, and that is because doing so would likely involve hiring a one-term, or one-time only, adjunct to teach the added section. Lawrence does not like to do this. It does, of course, in extreme cases (illness, and so on, for already scheduled classes), but it wants a maximal number of its classes taught by its full-time faculty. A department finding that a particular course is regularly of such high demand, will try to meet that demand, as best it can, when it schedules classes for subsequent years, but that is a different matter.</p>