<p>I am a new student(freshman) registering for the first time on Thursday. I need to swap one of the classes that I am scheduled for. Why do some classes show up as having a waitlist, if the class still has openings???</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t know you could actually mess around with the schedule they provide. Are you allowed to do so?</p>
<p>They scheduled me for a class that I already have AP credit for.</p>
<p>There are two systems you use for registration. There’s PASS, which you use to make a schedule and there’s CPREG, which you use to acctually sign up for classes. They don’t really see eye to eye a lot of the time. PASS often shows classes as having open slots when they are in fact full. </p>
<p>Also, there are certain sections that are paid for by the student fee committee for that department. These sections give priority to folks in that major. All others have to waitlist until a certain date (though, I thought that happened at open enrollment, which should already be happening).</p>
<p>I thought open enrollment was on the 24th…</p>
<p>I have a question about waitlisting… if I don’t get off the waitlist by the time school starts, what do you do to crash a class? Just show up? Talk to the professor? Should I buy textbooks for classes that Im hoping to drop out of? Or is it unlikely Ill get into the classes Im trying to add?</p>
<p>Just show up on the first day of class and tell the professor you’re crashing, if there’s room, they’ll give you a special registration number that you’ll need to enter into CPreg.</p>
<p>The waitlist doesn’t always go in order. My son was 9th on the waitlist and the next morning he was enrolled, but the 8 in front of him were still waitlisted. There must be other criteria.</p>