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Very Annoyed at You People in Kinesiology!
Excuse the rude thread title, I'm sure most people in Kin are great human beings, but damn the enrollment process! I'm majoring in Behavioural Neuroscience, which requires half your courses to be in Kin and half in Psych. At this point though I'm still technically majoring in Bio because in order to switch I have to get some more Kinesiology credits. To get Kin credits I have to actually be able to get into the classes and therein lies the problem.
First time, I didn't even get on the waitlist because it filled up so fast. The problem is that a bunch of seats are reserved for Kinesiology majors only. So I was pretty sad about not even getting on the waitlist considering that there were like 30 reserved seats that would be opening in Aug.
But then they expanded the waitlist and I got on it! There were exactly 24 reserved seats left for the longest time and I was around position 22. So far so good. After about a week, there were 23 left. I thought, well, I guess maybe one person just forgot to enroll on their date or was incredibly lazy. Then the week after that..22 seats left.
Now there's 19! So my position on the waitlist is basically pointless. But that's not what makes me angry. What makes me angry is that this week apparently 3 Kinesiology majors enrolled.. weeks after everyone's enrollment appt!
Why did you have to get my hopes up that there would still be space and then enroll at the last minute? Not cool! :angry:
First time, I didn't even get on the waitlist because it filled up so fast. The problem is that a bunch of seats are reserved for Kinesiology majors only. So I was pretty sad about not even getting on the waitlist considering that there were like 30 reserved seats that would be opening in Aug.
But then they expanded the waitlist and I got on it! There were exactly 24 reserved seats left for the longest time and I was around position 22. So far so good. After about a week, there were 23 left. I thought, well, I guess maybe one person just forgot to enroll on their date or was incredibly lazy. Then the week after that..22 seats left.
Now there's 19! So my position on the waitlist is basically pointless. But that's not what makes me angry. What makes me angry is that this week apparently 3 Kinesiology majors enrolled.. weeks after everyone's enrollment appt!
Why did you have to get my hopes up that there would still be space and then enroll at the last minute? Not cool! :angry:
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Anyway, despite what people here say about talking to the profs and the advisors and getting bumped up the wait lists and enrolled that just hasn't happened for me, I tried emailing and no luck.
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Wait a second, if you get a scholarship and you get to go first, wouldn't you get a seat? Are there not always a small number of seats that have no restrictions, basically for first-come first-serve students?
I'm a scholarship recipient as well and I've enrolled in LD kin courses before and I've gotten my seats perfectly fine everytime, and since you're trying to swap your major to a kin major, you can't take UD kin courses yet so I'm assuming you're talking about LD kin courses?
For kin 140, 142, 143, I think there are like 5-10 seats that have no restrictions (don't quote me on that but its seemed to work like that?) and usually whenever I enroll I'm between seat 1-5 and I get in fine so that's really weird.
- my enrollment date would be very late
- Kin courses were so incredibly hard to get into and fill up so ridiculously fast (I thought it would be the same as Chem 121 or Bio 101 which didn't even fill up completely last fall)
- there would be so many seats reserved for Kin students
etc.
No one tells you these things, and the university especially does not make a point to tell you, go talk to an advisor, they'll pretty much just do everything for you including waiving pre-requisites, bumping you to the top of waitlists or into the course, allowing extra repeats etc just because you asked nicely.
But the past is the past, the point isn't what I could or couldn't have done - my point was really that it's just annoying when a bunch of Kin people register super late in the course just because they can, weeks after everyone's enrollment appts, leaving the people on the waitlist worse off.