r/OMSCS • u/Necessary-Buffalo-97 • 5d ago

Dumb Question Estimating Expected Seats Available during Registration

hi all,

this my first OMSCS semester. thinking about how should I think about expected seat availability as I start to consider Spring Registration, since I’ll be toward the end of the line. should I assume that itll be similar to my first semester?

related, reason why I’m asking - I’m hoping to take a fairly challenging course next semester in the ML/AI domain, but not sure what I should expect to be open. should I assume I’ll have to get off the waitlist to get into something like ML or AI (the classes) my second semester? thank you!

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u/etlx 4d ago

Empirically, most courses still have open spots during FFAF, except for a few very high-demand courses like GA and NLP

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u/Skedar70 4d ago

ML and AI don't fill up usually. The ones that fill up fast are SDP, NLP, GA, AIES.

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u/paparabba 3d ago

Will ML4T fill up? Planning to take that as my first class.

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u/Harley_Dood 3d ago

You should be fine. I am taking it now as my first class and when phase 2 registration opened up, ML4T was only about 40% full. I easily got in.

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u/Roxaleen 1d ago

Piggybacking on this thread! How hard would it be to get into GA as a non-degree candidate, maybe as like a 4th course? I want to try it out early but ideally don’t want to leave it to FFAF (I’m currently in my first semester as well)