{"id":5508,"date":"2013-09-09T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2016-07-11T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:56:20","slug":"but-why-must-we-waitlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5508","title":{"rendered":"but why must we waitlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey aska!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently a freshman at UTSC and wanted to ask if there was a due date to get into courses that you&#8217;re waitlisted in. If I happen to get in to my course over the next few weeks (Intro to Linguistics), how exactly do you drop other courses? Will I have to pay the fee for both? Thanks for taking the time to read these really freshie questions! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nConfuzzled<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Confuzzled,<\/p>\n<p>Basically the last day to add any F or Y courses is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/~registrar\/calendars\/calendar\/Sessional_Dates.html\" target=\"_blank\">September 16<\/a>, which I suppose makes it the &#8220;due date&#8221; for getting in. However, all the waitlists for F and Y courses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/~registrar\/current_students\/courses#waitlist\" target=\"_blank\">seem to end on September 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that you get a week-long melee in which you get to repeatedly check ROSI for anyone who might have dropped the course. But a lot of people are going to be doing this too so this means you&#8217;ll have to check a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Now dropping courses is totally simple. You little go to your courses on ROSI and just&#8230; well, drop them. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But since UTSC charges you per course, you&#8217;ll notice a rise in your balance when you get off the waitlist for Intro to Linguistics, which, naturally, you&#8217;ll be expected to pay.<\/p>\n<p>However, since you plan on dropping another course in favour of that one, it sounds reasonable that the money for the course you&#8217;re dropping will simply count towards linguistics instead. Get it?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey aska! I&#8217;m currently a freshman at UTSC and wanted to ask if there was a due date to get into courses that you&#8217;re waitlisted in. If I happen to get in to my course over the next few weeks (Intro to Linguistics), how exactly do you drop other courses? Will I have to pay the fee for both? Thanks for taking the time to read these really freshie questions! \ud83d\ude42 Sincerely, Confuzzled \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Confuzzled, Basically the last day to add any F or Y courses is September 16, which I suppose makes it the &#8220;due date&#8221; for getting in. However, all the waitlists for F and Y courses seem to end on September 9. What this means is that you get a week-long melee in which you get to repeatedly check ROSI for anyone who might have dropped the course. But a lot of people are going to be doing this too so this means you&#8217;ll have to check a lot. Like a lot a lot. Now dropping courses is totally simple. You little go to your courses on ROSI and just&#8230; well, drop them. \ud83d\ude09 But since UTSC charges you per course, you&#8217;ll notice a rise in your balance when you get off the waitlist for Intro to Linguistics, which, naturally, you&#8217;ll be expected to pay. However, since you plan on dropping another course in favour of that one, it sounds reasonable that the money for the course you&#8217;re dropping will simply count towards linguistics instead. Get it? Cheers! aska<\/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":[120,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utsc","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","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=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}