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Not all courses have waitlists enabled. If a course has one and the course is full, you can join that course's waitlist from Minerva's Registration Menu. Like courses, waitlists can also become full. If the waitlist is full for a given course, you will not be able to register for neither the course nor the waitlist.

If you join a waitlist, you'll receive an email notification when a spot in the course section has become available. If you receive this message, you will have a limited amount of time to change your status in Minerva from "Waitlisted" to "Registered". See the Once You've Joined a Waitlist section for more information.

Email notifications go out twice every weekday, around midnight and around noon (except during the last two days of add/drop, during which notifications go out every two hours). If you are on a waitlist, it is important to check your email twice daily, morning and afternoon (or more often during the last two days of add/drop).

鉃� In the interim, you may view your position in the waitlist using the Minerva Registration Menu > Step 4: View Student Schedule by Course Section.

It is advisable that you monitor your position on the waitlist regularly in Minerva.

Waitlists will open on select courses between a few days and a few weeks after registration opens for a given term. This delay will depend on the course and will ensure that all students have equal chances to join a course鈥檚 waitlist as soon as it opens (please see the top of this page for specific dates).

Once registration waitlists open, your Minerva Class Schedule should feature:

• a "Waitlist Section-use Quick Add" note on the course section;
• numbers next to the section enrollment information indicating:
  • the waitlist capacity (WL Cap);
  • the number of students currently on the waitlist (WL Act); and
  • the number of spots remaining on the waitlist (WL Rem)

If a course for which you'd like to register is full, you can follow the five steps below:

1. From the Course Section Lookup results screen, look for the NOTE: Waitlist Section appearing on your desired course section.
2. Check the section's WL Rem number.
   • If it is 0, the waitlist is full; you cannot add yourself to the waitlist now but you should try again later.
   • If it is greater than 0, there is space on the waitlist; jot down the section CRN and follow the remaining steps.
3. Go to Quick Add or Drop Course Sections.
4. Enter the CRN in the grid of the Quick Add Worksheet and click Submit.
5. Use the Action picklist to change your waitlist status: Select "Add(ed) to Waitlist" and click Submit.

Waitlisted students do not have access to a course's myCourses page until they have officially been registered in the course.

Waitlist email notifications will include a registration deadline 鈥� this is usually within 24 hours. In the last day of add/drop, the system only allows until midnight regardless of what time you receive a notification, so check your email often! If you miss the deadline, the spot will be offered to the next eligible student on the list.

See the Once You've Joined a Waitlist section for more information.

Waitlisted students who are invited to register are allowed a specified time (usually 24 hours) to change their status from "Waitlisted" to "Registered". During this period, spaces that open up are reserved for the next eligible student on the waitlist 鈥� even if seats appear to be available, no one else is allowed to register. You'll only be allowed to register once you've received an "invitation to register" email.

Furthermore, some courses have reserved seats, meaning a specific number of seats are reserved for students in a specific year, program, department, etc. In courses with reserved seats, an open seat will be offered to the next student in the waitlist who is eligible for that seat. Although you may be first in line in the waitlist, you will only be invited to register for seats for which you are eligible.

Certain courses have seats reserved for a specific type of student 鈥� usually students in a specific program, department, or faculty. If one of these "reserved seats" becomes available, only students on the waitlist who meet the reserved seat criteria are eligible for the spot. For this reason, it may appear as though the system "skipped" your turn. However, the waitlist system is simply adhering to these reserved seat rules. Although you may be first in line in the waitlist, you will only be invited to register for seats for which you are eligible.

From the Minerva Registration Menu, select Quick Add or Drop Course Sections. The courses for which you are registered/waitlisted will display on the screen. Select the "Register(ed) from Waitlist" or "Web Registered" Action for the section for which you鈥檝e been invited to register and click Submit.

In Minerva, go to Quick Add or Drop Course Sections, select the "Web Drop" Action for the waitlisted section, and click Submit Changes. You will be removed from that section鈥檚 waitlist, and it will disappear from your list.

We have received reports of fraudulent email phishing attempts disguised as waitlist notification emails in the past. An authentic "invitation to register" email will not contain any active links (although a URL will be indicated as plain text), so you should never click any links in a waitlist notification email. You can verify the authenticity of your 海角社区 waitlist email notification by confirming in Minerva that you are in position 0 (zero) in the waitlist for that course, and the date/time indicated in the "Notification Expires" column is within 24 hours (this can be verified Minerva > Student > Registration > Step 4: View Student Schedule by Course Section). If the 鈥淣otification Expires鈥� value matches the date and time indicated in your notification email, the notification is authentic and you have indeed been invited to register for the section.

• If your invitation to register email is authentic, you are within your allotted time frame to register, and the "Register(ed) from Waitlist" selection doesn't appear in the "Action" dropdown list, this is a known bug that occurs occasionally. First, take note of the CRN of the course in question. Then, remove yourself from the waitlist. Finally, immediately go to Quick Add or Drop Course Sections in Minerva, enter the CRN, and click Submit to register. The waitlist process should have issued a permit to your record (valid 24 hours) for the course in question.
• If you conclude that the "invitation to register" email notification is not authentic, do not click any links therein. Refer to the IT phishing information page for details about how to deal with it.

All waitlists are "on hold" on weekends and during the holiday period between the Fall and Winter terms. Students will not receive waitlist notification emails during these times.

Waitlists don鈥檛 work on certain types of courses (multi-term/spanned courses, courses with linked lecture/lab/tutorial, Summer term courses). Staff sometimes mistakenly add a waitlist on incompatible courses, and it will appear as though there is a waitlist on the course section and it is empty. However, students won't be able to join it.

If you see a waitlist on a summer course, it is an error 鈥� you can inform the academic unit, but unfortunately you will not be able to register in the waitlist for a summer CRN.