<p>I'm signing up for a class (Chem 6a) with 30 seats, all of which have been taken with an already growing waitlist of 6. My enrollment date is tomorrow and I am already majorly ****ed</p>
<p>I've heard that if there are a couple of people on the waitlist, class sizes are increased; is this true?</p>
<p>Any thoughts on how to get off the waitlist?</p>
<p>I didn't know that the p-word was prohibited from use in this forum. Excuse my vulgarity!</p>
<p>I'm also waitlisted for chem 6A (Johnson) but luckily I'm number 3. I feel sorry for those on the 29th.</p>
<p>You sir are very lucky</p>
<p>class sizes are limited by the lecture hall in which they're held. for a genchem lecture in york 2722, the standard is 10 x 35-student discussions = 350 students. occasionally they'll bypass this, but don't count on it. tina johnson will be teaching again, it's not the end of the world if you don't get into her class the first time around. </p>
<p>just prepping you for what's probably to come -- if you tell a counselor that you absolutely must get into the class because she's good and the others not, it won't help your case. (legit reasons involve true scheduling conflicts.) college is long. you're bound to get crappy professors at some point.</p>
<p>I'm waitlisted as # 2 for CHEM 6A, should I still have backup plan or its pretty much means that I'll get in class?</p>
<p>good question kilkolka. what would be the cut off number of people on the waitlist so that you should have a back up plan?</p>
<p>Being 2nd on the waitlist, you have a good shot of getting in but look for another class just in case. </p>
<p>This is purely anecdotal, but if a class is entirely full and I really want/need to take a class, I waitlist a discussion with the most obtuse time (8 or 9am, especially on Fridays, or 5pm or later). Those times are on the inconvenient side and people are more likely to drop out of those sections and open a seat.</p>
<p>what do you guys think of #10 on the waitlist? as of right now I can't switch or else i'll be #6 or so with another (worse) professor. do you think i'll get the class being #10?</p>
<p>out of how many students?</p>
<p>i believe about 240in the lecture and 30 or so in the seminar</p>
<p>my friends are all telling me as a rule of thumb, they expect 10% to drop a class. So you're waitlisted for the seminar right? Being waitlist #10 gives you... not a good shot at all. :-(</p>
<p>acctually i mean discussion not seminar. they said that they're going to open a new CHEM 6A class, however i dont know who the professor will be. I'm waiting for Christina Johnson.</p>
<p>Anyone know when this "supposed" new Chem 6A section will open?</p>
<p>im checking about every hour for it. it should be up in the next few days, my best guess. they have to get it approved still. get on a waitlist for now, thats what the counslers recommend because then you have priority</p>
<p>sorry for hijacking this thread... are language classes generally the same? Like.. if I'm #2 waitlisted is that good enough?</p>