{"id":10855,"date":"2014-08-06T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:52:16","slug":"waitlists-are-for-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10855","title":{"rendered":"waitlists are for waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear aska,<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>I was wondering if I could get in the course that I&#8217;m waitlisted in for ECO100Y1, meaning if enough people drop the course. Last time I checked, I was around 20th out of the 400 seats (in LEC0401) because I applied late on ROSI. I really need to get into this course for my Economics degree and I was also wondering if I could talk to the professor or the department about my dilemma instead of waiting for a spot on ROSI.<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>Much thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/whyross.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no<\/a>! you may not. actually, you could, but you really shouldn&#8217;t. i&#8217;ll tell ya right now that the prof\/undergrad coordinator is gonna have a tough time getting back to you promptly at this time of year (even aska&#8217;s inbox is flooded at the moment, and i&#8217;m not even a real, serious uoft adult).<\/p>\n<p>more importantly, it&#8217;s not the departments&#8217; job to help students in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re within the top 10% of the waitlist, you have a reasonably good shot of getting in (and ECO100 is a big course with, likely, a big waitlist). according to the school, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/timetable\/1415_fw\/waiting-lists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ROSI does not enrol students from the waiting lists into courses in real-time; instead, the enrolments are done in batches.<\/a>&#8221; i&#8217;d say there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll be in the next batch, though it&#8217;s not a certain thing.<\/p>\n<p>so sit down and wait, why doncha, instead of angering the prof about it for no good reason. you&#8217;ll regret that when assignment #1 comes around.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>P.S. if you don&#8217;t get into the course after the waitlist ends and you ABSOLUTELY need it for your program, speak to your registrar&#8217;s office, and they may be able to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear aska,I was wondering if I could get in the course that I&#8217;m waitlisted in for ECO100Y1, meaning if enough people drop the course. Last time I checked, I was around 20th out of the 400 seats (in LEC0401) because I applied late on ROSI. I really need to get into this course for my Economics degree and I was also wondering if I could talk to the professor or the department about my dilemma instead of waiting for a spot on ROSI.Much thanks. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, no! you may not. actually, you could, but you really shouldn&#8217;t. i&#8217;ll tell ya right now that the prof\/undergrad coordinator is gonna have a tough time getting back to you promptly at this time of year (even aska&#8217;s inbox is flooded at the moment, and i&#8217;m not even a real, serious uoft adult). more importantly, it&#8217;s not the departments&#8217; job to help students in this situation. if you&#8217;re within the top 10% of the waitlist, you have a reasonably good shot of getting in (and ECO100 is a big course with, likely, a big waitlist). according to the school, &#8220;ROSI does not enrol students from the waiting lists into courses in real-time; instead, the enrolments are done in batches.&#8221; i&#8217;d say there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll be in the next batch, though it&#8217;s not a certain thing. so sit down and wait, why doncha, instead of angering the prof about it for no good reason. you&#8217;ll regret that when assignment #1 comes around. cheers, aska P.S. if you don&#8217;t get into the course after the waitlist ends and you ABSOLUTELY need it for your program, speak to your registrar&#8217;s office, and they may be able to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}