For students at Whitman, registration often means navigating the tricky business of choosing between classes, attempting to gain consent from professors and in some cases coping with less than ideal registration...
A new waitlist system will make pre-registration a little smoother this year if all goes according to plan. The registrar's office and technology services have been working together for 9 months to make improvements so that students can more easily get the classes they want.
First-year Jamie Edison can capture his spring pre-registration experience in a single word: stressful. Not only were two of his first-choice classes closed by the time his registration opened, so were his second-choice options. In order to take the minimum 12-credit course load, Edison had to sign up for a class that he had no plan nor desire in taking.
Despite this seemingly bleak registration experience, Edison considers himself lucky compared to the majority of first-year students who faced the brunt of an incredibly difficult pre-registration season.
After observing the effects of a 16-unit preregistration cap on students last semester, the registrar has gone back to an 18-unit plus activity credits cap for pre-registration for this spring. Both ASWC and the Registrar believe that this change back will benefit students.
