Registration FAQ

This is a little complicated because different types of seat reserve will be lifted at different times. However, the way to possibly get these later seats is the same across the board: get on the waitlist in ConnectCarolina! Waitlisting is available starting in the second wave of early registration.

Seats reserved for DAMES majors will be released after the first registration wave.

Seats reserved for FR/SO (in 100-level classes) will be released at the start of open enrollment (after the second wave).

Any additional seats that become available will go to the people on the waitlist first.

If you can forward to Ash Barnes an email from the professor/department of the other class, saying that you’ll be taking their class asynchronously and don’t need to attend it at the scheduled time, we’ll override the time conflict. Be sure to include in the email your name, PID, and exactly what DAMES class section you wish to add.

Vietnamese 102 & 204.

One way is to look at our spring courses page, where crosslists are listed in a separate section from the courses DAMES offers.

New features have recently been added to ConnectCarolina that will help you with this.

When you do a search in ConnectCarolina and find the class, the section number is a link.  Click through and you’ll be on the Class Detail page. Scroll down that page to the Class Availability section, and you’ll see a breakdown of seats: how many were reserved for different groups and who those groups were, how many were open to anyone, and for each group how many of the seats have been taken and how many are left. In the Reserved Seats column, the abbreviated name of the reserve group has hover text that explains it more clearly.

Below this in the Notes section on the same page there may be a note explaining when reserved seats will be released.

Check your schedule to see if you have a time conflict. ConnectCarolina will let you waitlist even if you have a time conflict or don’t meet restrictions on the class, but these things get checked when you have the chance to get in off the waitlist.

If the course has recitation sections, another possible problem is that there are seats open in some recitations, but not the one you chose. If you’re willing to make a different recitation choice in order to get into the class, look at which recitations are open and try swapping to one of them. (WARNING: if you try to Swap to a closed recitation, it may take you out of the class and back onto the waitlist.) If you see another open recitation that you’d be willing to take, but can’t change your request on ConnectCarolina without losing your place on the waitlist, contact Ash Barnes for help (include your PID).

Our First-Year Seminar classes don’t have waitlists; this is a universal First-Year Seminar policy.

It may be too early–remember you can’t waitlist during the first wave of registration.

We don’t actually use permission numbers, so you don’t need one.  The actual situation here could be a number of things; look for a note in the Class Notes section on ConnectCarolina.

If there are open sections of the class you want, try to enroll in an available section if you are willing to take that section. Please don’t enroll in a section you won’t really take; that doesn’t improve your chances of getting into the section you want, and it shuts out other people who might be trying to get into the section you don’t want.

Otherwise, join the waitlist!  But please note, ConnectCarolina will allow you to be enrolled in one section of a course and waitlist a different section, so please monitor your registration to make sure you don’t get enrolled in more than one section of the same thing.  If you are enrolled and want to change sections, it’s best to set this up as a Swap.

If the section you want is full, join the waitlist. If all sections of a language level are full, we are likely to add more seats.

Waitlisting in ConnectCarolina is meant to be fair and transparent to all.  However, it is a first-come first-serve process that does not take individual circumstances into consideration. Therefore, it is possible that we may make rare exceptions.  Starting on the first day of class, if you are still on the waitlist and feel you have compelling circumstances (you are taking required courses that conflict with all open sections), you may contact our Director of Undergraduate Studies (include your name, PID, course and section you hope to add, and explain the circumstances). Exceptions will be rare, so we strongly recommend doing everything you can to get into the class yourself first.

No. Decisions about enrollment in language classes are made centrally by the department; the individual instructor does not have the authority to decide if you can add.

Get on the waitlist!  Waitlisting rules changed effective spring 2024: you can waitlist more courses, more people can be on a waitlist, and the ability to join a waitlist will continue through the start of the semester.  So this is absolutely the thing to do.

If you’re on the waitlist, you’re welcome to come to the first day of the class (if the class is remote, please contact the instructor to request the zoom link).

Not as a means of bypassing the waitlist. If you’re next on the waitlist? Maybe, maybe not. The instructor may be delighted with your enthusiasm and eager to let you add their class.  Or they may be too busy and overwhelmed with a deluge of emails to even get back to you. Or they may be open to possibly taking a few extra people, but feel that they want to see who actually shows up to the first class meeting before deciding.  In almost all cases, instructors would rather have someone who has taken the trouble to show up to the first day (and also thereby not missed a session) than someone who keeps sending them pleading emails but doesn’t actually show up.

Email Ash Barnes for help. Include your PID.