UCR Class Wait List Processing

The Batch Process

Wait list processing is handled by batch, in the evening after normal SIS operations are shut down. When the batch is run, the system will look for any open seats in a section and add students to the course automatically. Students who are added to a course will receive a web mail indicating they have been added to the course and providing them with their updated course list.

If seats become available in a section during the day, due to other students following the usual drop process in PAWS, those seats will be held for students on the wait list until the nightly batch is run. Unless and until the entire wait list is accommodated, other students attempting to add the class in PAWS will receive a message saying the class wait list is full.

Administrative Hold of The Wait List

Wait list processing will be held campuswide at certain times in the quarter. At a minimum, it will be turned off for two days after the deadline to pay fees. During this time, administrative and academic offices will have an opportunity to add students to courses for the usual reasons such as "dropped in error." During the times wait list processing is turned off, departments should following normal procedures for adding students to classes, i.e., do not add your own student to other people’s classes without first clearing it with them; do not add students who are not your own to your own classes without first clearing it with that student’s advisor.

Closing The Wait Lists and Notification to Students

You may close your wait list at any time up until the end of second week and students will be notified via web mail of the closure. At the end of second week, all existing wait lists will be closed for the quarter and all waitlisted students notify of the closures by web mail.

See also Closing the wait list.

Enrollment After The Wait Lists Are Closed

After the end of second week, students will complete enrollment changes using the existing paper process.

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