Economics Waitlist Policy

WAITLIST POLICIES

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Version: 13 February 2009

 

PART I

BEST PRACTICES

 

1. A COURSE WITH BOTH LECTURE AND DISCUSSION SECTIONS

 

  • When registration begins, there is no waitlist.
  • If all discussion sections fill, then a waitlist is created for each discussion section.
  • If more than one lecture section is offered for a given course, then all discussion sections in all lecture sections of the same course must fill before waitlists are created.
  • During registration, for one week after registration, and during the first week of the relevant term, student services checks daily for vacancies in each discussion section with a waitlist.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  • At other times of the year (during the summer, in particular) student services checks weekly for vacancies in each discussion section with a waitlist.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  • During the academic year, students have 48 hours to accept the offer of a place.
  • During the summer, students have 7 days to accept the offer of a place.
  • If this is a 300-level course, then the lecture-section enrollment of students with senior standing is capped initially at 20.
  • If this is a 300-level course, and if the senior-standing cap is reached, then, one day after the sophomore-standing students with the lowest registration priority are allowed to register, all available places are opened again to students with senior standing.  If places are unavailable at that time, then seniors may join the waitlist.
  • On the day before the first day of classes, all waitlisted students who received an override previously but failed to use it are dropped from the waitlist.  If no students remain on the waitlist, the class is opened again for enrollment.

 

 

2. A 300-LEVEL COURSE WITHOUT DISCUSSION SECTIONS

 

  1. When registration begins, there is a waitlist.
  2. When registration begins, enrollment of students with senior standing is capped initially at 20.
  3. If the senior-standing cap is reached, then, one day after the sophomore-standing students with the lowest registration priority are allowed to register, all available places are opened again to students with senior standing.  If places are unavailable at that time, then seniors may join the waitlist.
  4. During registration, for one week after registration, and during the first week of the term, student services checks daily for vacancies in courses with populated waitlists.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  5. At other times of the year (during the summer, in particular), student services checks weekly for vacancies in courses with populated waitlists.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  6. During the academic year, students have 48 hours to accept the offer of a place.
  7. During the summer, students have 7 days to accept the offer of a place.
  8. On the day before the first day of classes, all waitlisted students who received an override previously but failed to use it are dropped from the waitlist.  If no students remain on the waitlist, the class is opened again for enrollment.

 

3. 495 AND 108

 

  1. No student may register for the course without permission of the instructor.
  2. The instructor provides student services with the names and UMIDs of students to be offered a place.

 

4. ALL OTHER COURSES

 

  1. When registration begins, there is a waitlist.
  2. During registration, for one week after registration, and during the first week of the relevant term, student services checks daily for vacancies in each course with a populated waitlist.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  3. At other times of the year (during the summer, in particular), student services checks weekly for vacancies in classes with populated waitlists.  It offers vacant places to students on the basis of their waitlist rank.
  4. During the academic year, students have 48 hours to accept the offer of a place.
  5. During the summer, students have 7 days to accept the offer of a place.
  6. On the day before the first day of classes, all waitlisted students who received an override previously but failed to use it are dropped from the waitlist.  If no students remain on the waitlist, the class is opened again for enrollment.

 

PART II

OTHER OPTIONS

 

  1. Teachers may devise their own waitlist policies.  (Exception: The initial cap on senior-standing enrollment in 300-level courses.)
  2. Teachers who devise their own waitlist policies should submit those policies to student services at the same time they submit their course descriptions for the LSA Course Guide.
  3. If the teacher does not inform student services to the contrary, before the date announced by student services, then the waitlist of the course is managed according to the department’s best practices.
  4. During registration, and during the first two weeks of the term, student services gives priority to processing overrides in classes employing best-practice policies.
  5. During the summer, student services processes overrides only intermittently in classes not employing best-practice policies.
  6. Faculty who wish to grant overrides to specific students provide student services with the name and UMID of each relevant student.
  7. Faculty who wish to grant overrides on the basis of some criterion other than waitlist rank are encouraged to ascertain for themselves a student’s satisfaction of that criterion.  Student services gives low priority to investigating any student characteristic other than waitlist rank.
  8. If the course does not adopt best practices, then the faculty member assumes primary responsibility for dealing with individual students seeking to enroll in the relevant course.