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Information about the cost of books/materials for courses and about various course waitlist procedures is keyed as explained below.
Cost
The books/materials for this course:
- Cost less than $50.
- Cost $50 or more, but less than $100.
- Cost $100 or more, but less than $150.
- Cost $150 or more.
Waitlist
If the course is closed through Web Registration, you should:
- Get on the WAITLIST through Web Registration, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for handling the waitlist will be explained there.
- Go to the department office to get on a WAITLIST, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for handling the waitlist will be explained there.
- Visit the faculty office to see the instructor about getting an OVERRIDE into the course.
- Wait until classes start, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for issuing overrides will be explained there.
- Other.
A Cautionary Note on Waitlists
Waitlists on wolverineaccess.umich.edu that begin when a course or section has filled with registered students serve a number of uses for faculty, departments, and the College. From the students' perspective, however, there is one important fact to know about how waitlists work. All students should be aware that there is no general rule that when overrides are issued for a class they must be written for students as they appear in numerical order on the waitlist. The waitlist exists to let the faculty member know who and how many students have waitlisted a particular section or course. And yes, the student names do appear on the list in the chronological order in which students added themselves to the list. No individual faculty member or department is obligated, however, to issue overrides by this numerical ordering. It may be felt that other criteria weigh more heavily. For example, class standing (senior, junior, etc.) or whether the student is a concentrator in the department or not may be considered more important than what number a student is on the waitlist. In fact, the only general guess one can reasonably make is that the rule of strictly following the waitlist number is pretty much restricted to lower-level courses that largely enroll first-year students (not all lower-level courses do this).
What does this mean, then, for a student who is about to complete a registration trasnaction? It means that having what appears to be a very good (low) number apparently assuring a place in a class may be, in fact, no guarantee at all. The best advice, then, is NOT to exit the registration system without a full schedule of classes that could be lived with for the coming term. This may seem unnecessarily pessimistic because of the suggestion that not all students may end up with their preferred choices in class scheduling, but the advice is intended to be helpful because it offers the most protection. Also, please waitlist only those classes or sections you can attend, and remember that waitlisting for multiple sections of a course does not really help with getting into the course.
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