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EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE • FALL 2024 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
AUTO-ENROLLMENT FROM THE WAITLIST
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
CAN ANY STUDENT GET ON A WAITLIST?
You are eligible to be placed on the waitlist if: there
are waitlist openings for a class section, you meet
the class prerequisite, you have no repeat errors, you
have no holds on your records, or the class units will
not exceed your maximum waitlist units allowed.
WHAT IS AUTO-ENROLLMENT FROM THE WAITLIST?
This is a daily process that enrolls students into their classes
from the waitlist. Once the class is full it is marked as closed
then only students from the waitlist may be enrolled in the
course. If one seat becomes available in a course, then
student number one on the waitlist is automatically enrolled
from the waitlist provided there are no holds, time conicts,
prerequisites, repeat issues, or duplicate course errors.
HOW DOES THE WAITLIST PROCESS WORK?
When seats become available in a closed class section,
the class remains closed until a process runs that
automatically enrolls students from the waitlist. The class
remains closed until the waitlist empties or the enrollment
capacity has been met, whichever comes rst.
If a student does not meet the criteria to enroll in the
class (see FAQ #1), the process will select the next student
on the waitlist according to their position number.
Students that were on the waitlist and were not enrolled
will maintain their position number. Students will have
an opportunity to be auto-enrolled the next time a
seat is made available, if they resolve the issue that
prevented them from being auto-enrolled previously.
If the waitlist process runs and no students are enrolled,
then the class will open and other students will be given the
opportunity to enroll (even if there are still students on the
waitlist that did not meet the criteria to be auto-enrolled).
If there are no students on the waitlist, the class will
open as usual when seats are made available.
IF AN ENROLLED STUDENT DROPS CLASSES
HOW ARE STUDENTS MOVED FROM THE
WAITLIST INTO THE OPEN SEATS?
Students are auto-enrolled from the waitlist into the course
by their priority ranking on the waitlist. For example, if a
class is full, and three students drop, students ranked 1, 2,
and 3 will be auto-enrolled from the waitlist. The student
who was previously ranked number 4 will now be ranked
number 1. If another student drops the course, he or she will
be the next student to auto-enroll. This scenario will continue
until the waitlist is empty, or the class is full, or the waitlist
is closed at 11:59 PST two days before the session begins.
By adding themselves to the waitlist a student is
acknowledging that they understand that they will be
autoenrolled and will be responsible for the enrollment
fees and/ or dropping the classes if necessary.
HOW DO I KNOW I WAS MOVED FROM THE
WAITLIST TO THE ACTIVE CLASS?
If you are moved into a class from the waitlist, an email will be
sent to the student’s LACCD email account notifying them of
the registration. It is important that you activate and monitor
your LACCD emails during the registration period. If you decide
you do not want to be enrolled in the class after you are
moved from the waitlist, you must ofcially drop the class.
WHEN IS THE FIRST AND LAST DAY TO
GET ON A WAITLIST FOR A CLASS?
Students cannot get on a waitlist until their enrollment
appointment or open enrollment has begun.
The last day to get on a waitlist for a class will be
11:59 p.m., two days before the session begins.
Waitlists are only available once the class has reached the
enrollment capacity. For an extremely popular course the
waitlist may be activated very early in the registration period.
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A CLASS HAS A WAITLIST?
The waitlist option is only available once all seats in a class
have been lled and the section closes. When a Class Search
is performed to include these closed classes, users will
notice a yellow triangle beside classes that have available
waitlist seats. Once the waitlist capacity has been reached,
the waitlist feature is unavailable and the blue closed class
icon will display beside the section in Class Search.
DO ALL CLASSES HAVE A WAITLIST?
Not all classes have waitlists. If a course is listed as
Instructor Consent, a waitlist is not available. Some
disciplines do not use the waitlist functionality.
HOW MANY UNITS CAN THE STUDENT
BE WAITLISTED FOR?
Student may be on 12 units of waitlist in the fall and
spring semester and 9 units for winter and summer.
ARE THE WAITLISTED UNITS COUNTED INTO THE
STUDENT’S TOTAL UNITS FOR THE SEMESTER?
No. They are considered as two separate lists: Total units
enrolled and total units on the waitlist. For example, if a student
may enroll in 19 units districtwide and they are enrolled in 15
units and have 6 units on the waitlist that is ne. Even though
15 + 6 = 21, which is greater than 19, this is a not a problem.
CAN THE STUDENT BE WAITLISTED FOR MORE
THAN ONE SECTION OF THE SAME CLASS?
Yes. A student can waitlist multiple sections of the same
class. They cannot pick their preference. The waitlist
process will enroll the student into the rst available seat
according to descending class number. If the student is
enrolled in a waitlisted class; the remaining waitlist requests
for the same class will be automatically dropped.
For example, a student attempts to waitlist English 101 class
number 10000 and English 101 class number 20000. If English
101, 10000 has a seat available and the student is eligible
for enrollment they will be enrolled into the course and
dropped from the Eng1ish 101, 20000 waitlist. If both classes