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 2013
| April 8, 2013 | Summer registration begins |
| April 9, 2013 | Summer automated waitlist process begins |
| Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | Last day students can waitlist a full-term summer course |
| Thursday, June 6, 2013 |
Last day waitlist process is run to send notifications of open seats in full-term summer courses using waitlisting |
Fall 2013
| April 8, 2013 | Fall registration begins |
| April 9, 2013 | Fall automated waitlist process begins |
| Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | Last day students can waitlist a full-term fall course |
| Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
Last day waitlist process is run to send notifications of open seats in full-term fall courses using waitlisting |
The above fall dates apply to full-term and first eight-week courses. Students can continue to waitlist second eight-week courses through October 6, 2013, and final notifications will be sent on October 7, 2013. Courses in other parts-of-term may also use waitlisting. The last day notifications for open seats will be sent will always be before the course begins.
After the start of waitlisted classes, a process is run to remove students from those waitlists. Students are informed via email when this process has been completed.
Other Important Waitlisting Information:
- Students cannot waitlist/enroll 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.