{"id":27080,"date":"2022-06-22T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27080"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:13:28","slug":"waitlist-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27080","title":{"rendered":"waitlist woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m fifth on a waitlist for a class of 25 people and I was wondering if I&#8217;ll have a chance of getting in since there are three weeks left before waitlists are over. I just need some encouragement:(<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of that handy rule of thumb where if your spot on the waitlist is within 10% of the class size you&#8217;ll probably get in. unfortunately your spot is more like 20% of the class size so it&#8217;s kind of hard to tell. it&#8217;s not impossible, of course \u2014 you&#8217;d just need 5 people to drop the class or leave the waitlist which could totally happen from now till july 6th, but it really depends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\" data-postid=\"15198912\" data-share-method=\"host\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.33891\" data-width=\"60%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/golden-girls-shrug-shoulders-coffee-you-cant-change-it-it-is-what-it-is-gif-15198912\">Golden Girls Shrug Shoulders GIF<\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/golden+girls-gifs\">Golden Girls GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/embed.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>people might also drop the course after the waitlist closes. since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/dates-deadlines\/academic-dates#academic-dates-deadlines-accordion-6\">last day to enrol in a summer S session course is july 10th<\/a>, if you&#8217;re dropped from the waitlist but still really want to get in the course you might need to obsessively check acorn for a few days in case something opens up. (a pain&#8230; i know. but just so you&#8217;re prepared)<\/p>\n<p>sorry i can&#8217;t give you a straight answer but i\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>send encouragement so there you go. it&#8217;s possible! believe in yourself! don&#8217;t lose hope!!!!! and if you don&#8217;t get in, there&#8217;s always next sem, hopefully.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\" data-postid=\"15539584\" data-share-method=\"host\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.971875\" data-width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/motivation-penguin-believe-in-yourself-you-can-do-it-gif-15539584\">Motivation Penguin GIF<\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/motivation-gifs\">Motivation GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>good luck!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>p.s. to anyone planning to drop a course, this is a psa to do it asap for your fellow students :&#8217;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m fifth on a waitlist for a class of 25 people and I was wondering if I&#8217;ll have a chance of getting in since there are three weeks left before waitlists are over. I just need some encouragement:( hey there, i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of that handy rule of thumb where if your spot on the waitlist is within 10% of the class size you&#8217;ll probably get in. unfortunately your spot is more like 20% of the class size so it&#8217;s kind of hard to tell. it&#8217;s not impossible, of course \u2014 you&#8217;d just need 5 people to drop the class or leave the waitlist which could totally happen from now till july 6th, but it really depends. Golden Girls Shrug Shoulders GIFfrom Golden Girls GIFs people might also drop the course after the waitlist closes. since the last day to enrol in a summer S session course is july 10th, if you&#8217;re dropped from the waitlist but still really want to get in the course you might need to obsessively check acorn for a few days in case something opens up. (a pain&#8230; i know. but just so you&#8217;re prepared) sorry i can&#8217;t give you a straight answer but i\u00a0can\u00a0send encouragement so there you go. it&#8217;s possible! believe in yourself! don&#8217;t lose hope!!!!! and if you don&#8217;t get in, there&#8217;s always next sem, hopefully. Motivation Penguin GIFfrom Motivation GIFs good luck! aska p.s. to anyone planning to drop a course, this is a psa to do it asap for your fellow students :&#8217;)<\/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":[320,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-student","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080","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=27080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}