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Penalty for saving spots in classes

edited July 2007 in General
Has anyone ever had that before? Just wondering how strict they are in this.

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  • edited July 2007
    I've never heard of THAT before.:omg:
  • edited July 2007
    i've saved classes for some of my friends who were 1st years back then.. i took the spot then released it when it was their enrolling time.. never had the problem of being penalized.. =)
  • edited July 2007
    Heard about it in a email somewhere. How exactly do they penalize you anyways?
  • edited July 2007
    Oh, you mean ENROLLING. I thought you meant saving a seat in lecture or something.:embarassed:
  • edited July 2007
    How can that possibly work? When you drop the class, doesnt your spot go to the next person who is on the waitlist?

    I dont see how you can save it for your friend.
  • edited July 2007
    My admittedly limited understanding is people earlier in the registration queue will sometimes register in a course if a friend of theirs is way down the line, and then drop the class just prior to their friend adding that course.
  • edited July 2007
    Thats so weird. Ive never heard of that. Not that its much help to me now seeing as im going into my fourth year.
  • edited July 2007
    and how would they know you're a friend of that first initial person saving the spot?

    we have how many thousands of students, it's not very coincidental when one student drops and ' coincidentally ' another person clicks enroll at the same time.
  • edited July 2007
    I don't think thats even possible anymore. Maybe in the old days with the archaeic phone registration system it would have been...they will, however, penalize you if you hold spots in classes because you aren't sure which ones you want to take. For example, if you register in 5 classes but drop some when school starts, they will penalize you $100 for the net decrease in class number.
  • edited July 2007
    SR.;14276 said:
    I don't think thats even possible anymore. Maybe in the old days with the archaeic phone registration system it would have been...they will, however, penalize you if you hold spots in classes because you aren't sure which ones you want to take. For example, if you register in 5 classes but drop some when school starts, they will penalize you $100 for the net decrease in class number.
    it's actually $50 at first and then after 1 week (I think) it increased to $100

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