So... what now?
Unsurprisingly most of the courses I wanted to enrol in as a first year were full. What exactly should I do now? Add to watchlist and just wait?
Posted May 21, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC
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Same, can’t believe beartracks is this bad of a website.
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The small college I'm transferring from has a substantially better website... like how?
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Probably because your old college doesn’t have nearly as many students using the website all at once. As a side note the U of A hosts from AWS so it’s probably just that the U of A doesn’t have the funding to have adequate server support because we got rocked with the budget cuts.
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Their website just puts on way too much unnecessary stress on students just because they can’t make a good website
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Watchlist, yes. Unfortunately the waiting game is what you'll have to do if you really want those classes. See if there are any other classes available that you can enrol in that fulfil your requirements and whatnot. You can rearrange your schedule if needed.
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I'll add that Departments watch their enrollment numbers and watchlist numbers and will usually try and adjust over the summer to change course caps or add new sections to meet demand. Lots of students will also register in more courses then they intend to take and will drop some late, freeing up spots. Either way, watchlists are your best best.
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yes because billion dollar business can't afford better servers nor better people working at their comp department apparently
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Their argument is why invest so many dollars in servers who reach capacity only once a year...
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I would maybe try to schedule a meeting with an advisor they can be pretty helpful when it comes to getting into classes that you need
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Try to rearrange your schedule a bit to enroll in some classes and add the ones you really wanted to your shopping cart/watchlist. This way if they become available you can use the “swap” class function and if they don’t at least you’ll be enrolled in something! Also important to note that a lot of people start dropping classes the first or second week of Fall and it creates a ripple effect so there’s still hope.
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If it's engineering, an advisor can force you into the class. Otherwise watchlists and potentially rearranging your classes is your best bet. Word of advice on the watchlists, make sure you set up SMS notifications. The email notifications seem to be always a bit delayed.
What people normally do is make several plans, one if they can catch someone who dropped the class and manage to enroll, vs one's where they entirely do different courses. That way, come the first week of classes, whatever drops/additions happen they know exactly what to do.
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Watch list and rearrange your schedule. Take the class at a different time or take another course you need. You got at least 14 semester to fit everything in. Don't panic about it
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Watchlist everything. Download the Gmail app so you can login directly from the notification and add it
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Last year was my first year and I forgot to register 3 weeks before classes started. Still ended up getting what I wanted. People will start dropping a few days in the semester, trust.
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Tip for watchlist: it send out email notifications for open seats on the hour and half hour. So if there is something, and you keep missing it by just a little bit (I.e there’s a seat but it’s gone by the time you hit enroll), try logging in before the email is sent to every student who wants the course.
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Probably going to have to go on watchlists and/or try and rearrange what you want as a schedule.
Also, reminder, it’s only the first years enrolment this morning, so it’s just a bunch of us newbies on Reddit at the moment. No more experienced people would ever be awake to answer our questions this early.
First years & all transfer students!
You’re correct though!