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SFU's course enrolment system is terrible! What are your frustrations?
Personally, I've struggled many times to get into REQUIRED classes needed for graduation, either because they're rarely offered, or there aren't enough seats in the class (offered once per semester) to accommodate the hundreds of students who need the requirement! I'm now looking at a BA that'll take me at least 6 years to complete.
Why can SFU's enrollment system be so awful? What are you horror stories? Are there certain student demographics who get priority seating that shouldn't? Are there other universities that run into this problem? Or is it only SFU? Have SFU students had this problem for years? What else can you tell me about the enrolment process?
Any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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You are not alone. There's a whole section of the Undergraduate Student Survey
http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/irp/surveys/ugss/ugss2014report.pdf
on Course Availability and how (un)happy students are. This has been a problem for years at SFU; in the report it describes how availability has improved in some faculties and grown worse in others, and also that overall the higher the course number the harder it is to get in. Student unhappiness is by no means not limited to SFU - don't know whether it's worse here.