{"id":2436,"date":"2010-08-16T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2016-07-11T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:24:09","slug":"a-philosophical-waitlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"a philosophical waitlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a first year student who&#8217;s going to be joining in September. Being a little ambitious I decided to enrol in the PHL210Y1 Y course on 17th and 18th Century Philosophy, but ROSI is giving me this mysterious &#8220;Waitlisted for rank of 42 for 200 total spaces&#8221;. I&#8217;m just wondering what exactly this means and why I can&#8217;t just be approved to join the course when there are obviously spaces for it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for your help, you guys are angels. I&#8217;ll totally volunteer next year when I&#8217;m more acclimatized to the Utor environment.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Vish<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hey there, your guardian angel is speaking. (Now can you please give me some Twinkies and a big fat burrito?) Unfortunately the statistic you read on ROSI is right &#8211; and now there are even 50 students on the waitlist! Basically what you read is that the class is full, over 200 students want in, and so you will be on the waitlist for the course until someone drops it. You dig? Unfortunately there&#8217;s not much you can do except hope and wait that someone will drop the class. That may not even happen though! It&#8217;s up to you what you should do next.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo, Askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there! I&#8217;m a first year student who&#8217;s going to be joining in September. Being a little ambitious I decided to enrol in the PHL210Y1 Y course on 17th and 18th Century Philosophy, but ROSI is giving me this mysterious &#8220;Waitlisted for rank of 42 for 200 total spaces&#8221;. I&#8217;m just wondering what exactly this means and why I can&#8217;t just be approved to join the course when there are obviously spaces for it. Thanks so much for your help, you guys are angels. I&#8217;ll totally volunteer next year when I&#8217;m more acclimatized to the Utor environment. Cheers, Vish \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey there, your guardian angel is speaking. (Now can you please give me some Twinkies and a big fat burrito?) Unfortunately the statistic you read on ROSI is right &#8211; and now there are even 50 students on the waitlist! Basically what you read is that the class is full, over 200 students want in, and so you will be on the waitlist for the course until someone drops it. You dig? Unfortunately there&#8217;s not much you can do except hope and wait that someone will drop the class. That may not even happen though! It&#8217;s up to you what you should do next. xoxo, Askastudent<\/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":[6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}