How To Register For Uf

The upcoming Spring semester registration volition feature a new pick to make it easier for students to annals for their classes.

UF will add an "Add together to Await listing" button to its ONE.UF course registration page for next semester. Students volition have the choice to add themselves to a list that reserves spots for full classes. Equally students drop the class, those on the waitlist volition have the option to enroll in the course.

The waitlist feature will first as soon as enrollment opens for next semester, on Oct. 25, or Oct. 19 for Honors students, and will continue until the last day of the drop/add period on Jan. xi. Merely certain departments will enable the waitlist selection for their courses. It is unclear as of Oct. ten which departments will offer it.

As before long every bit a spot opens upwards, students have a limited time to have their seat, otherwise they will be removed from the waitlist. From Oct. 25 to December. 27, students will have 24 hours to have. From Dec. 28 to January. 4, students will take 12 hours to have. During the drop/add catamenia, Jan. 5 to Jan. eleven, students will take just four hours to officially enroll in the course.

The new feature is a welcomed change for students like Adriana LaVopa, an 18-yr-old materials science and technology freshman, who had trouble finding open seats for her desired course in August.

She checked the openings during drop/add week — once in the morning and once at night — but she never saw a seat open up up for a Secrets of Abracadabra course she was interested in.

"I feel like that's a thing that should have been always in place," LaVopa said.

She said if she can't become the classes she wants for the Spring, she volition employ the new waitlist feature.

To successfully enroll in a waitlist, and to register for classes, students have to clear any holds on their account and come across class prerequisites. After enrolling, students receive notifications about their waitlist status via their phone number or UF email.

"During drop/add together menses a lot of people drop the form and so there's open spots in the grade only you don't really know about it," Andy Rodriguez, xviii-year-sometime biochemistry freshman, said. "The hardest part is finding the right catamenia because they make full up pretty fast."

Afterwards students take their spot, they volition exist dropped from any other waitlists for other sections in the same form.

Yet, waitlists tin can make full upwardly and volition show up as "Full" on the waitlist button.

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Students can monitor their waitlist status on I.UF, in a new "Look-Listed Classes" section nether the "My Schedule" tab.

Contact Max Taylor at mtaylor@alligator.org . Follow her on Twitter at @MTaylor_Journ.

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Max Taylor

Max is a first year journalism major. In the past, she worked as the Editor-in-Chief of her loftier school's yearbook, and she is at present a News Desk-bound Assistant for The Alligator. When she isn't reporting, Max enjoys reading and rock music.