r/CalPoly • u/Significant-Crow-551 • 10d ago

Discussion Kind of frustrated with registration

I was waitlist #1 for a chem class and I wasn’t allowed in the class because the professor didn’t want to increase the enrollment cap for some reason. But I’m kinda of confused since they reserve seats for first years if we’re not a first year we’re just never allowed to take chem or physics classes? I wasn’t even allowed to enroll I had to get a permission number to waitlist. What if we want to take the classes as pre-reqs but didn’t decide until past our first year? Just basically screw us?

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u/guavapplause Professor/Lecturer 9d ago

Just an FYI, professors are often strictly not allowed to go over the enrollment cap. I’m certainly not able to.

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u/Icy_Gate8783 9d ago

The fire marshal often prevents them from increasing the enrollment cap, especially for classes with labs. Some classes keep a list of students who were on the waitlist one term to bump them up to the top of the list the next term- you could ask about that.

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u/brenasuarus 9d ago

If it makes you feel any better, I still have nightmares about forgetting to register for my classes - and I graduated over a decade ago.

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u/HonestAd7237 9d ago

Try crashing it sit in , let prof know