Waitlisting
The Banner registration system offers electronic waitlisting. Not all courses utilize waitlisting; academic departments determine which of their courses will have a waitlist. If a waitlist is available for a closed class, the student will be offered the waitlist option during registration.
A regular process is run to look for open spots in waitlisted courses and send notifications to the next person on the waitlist. The process runs at 10:00 am Sunday through Friday, except for certain excluded dates during extend periods when University offices are closed. During times when the process is not run, students may see that there are vacant seats but no one is able to enroll in the course until the process sends a notification to the next waitlisted student.
The below timeline provides information on dates when the process will and will not be run.
Summer 2012
April 9, 2012 Summer registration beginsApril 10, 2012 Summer automated waitlist process begins
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Last day students can waitlist a course
Thursday, May 31, 2012 Last day Waitlist process is run to send notifications of open seats in
summer courses under Waitlisting.
Fall 2012
April 9, 2012 Fall registration beginsApril 10, 2012 Fall automated waitlist process begins
Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 Last day students can waitlist a course
Thursday, Aug 16, 2012 Last day Waitlist process is run to send notifications of open seats in
fall courses under Waitlisting.
Other Important Waitlisting Information:
- Students cannot waitlist for more than one section of the same course.
- Students can waitlist a lecture that has a lab without waitlisting the lab.
- Students cannot enroll in one course of a co-requisite pair (ie,lecture and lab) and waitlist the other.
- Only full-term courses offer waitlisting
Details on the waitlisting process can be found in the online Schedule of Courses under Registration Electronic Waitlisting.