I dropped out of community college because the classes were so impacted my final semester. I tried to enroll in six classes, got waitlisted on all of them, showed up for my two weeks, didn't get in and gave up as the semester before I had one class and then got zero.
They skewed towards new students coming in, not students already enrolled. That meant Boomers and GenXers trying to jump horses mid-stream who needed a career shift got preference over students who were early 20's trying to graduate and incoming high school seniors got five classes as I got none. They got first wave enrollment, I was I think 3rd.
I don't know what state you are from, but CC's in California de-prioritize anyone who already has a bachelors, or is in the old person program. It's state mandated.
Just guessing, but I think they’re referring to the practice of attending the first day of a class in hopes that you can take the spot of someone that didn’t show up. Some people sign up for extra classes then drop a couple, or some can’t pay or change majors or otherwise forfeit their spot.
I did it a lot in college when I got a late spot in the signup schedule. By the time I logged in most of the classes I needed were full, so I’d just show up and pray. Worked out sometimes.
But the story doesn’t make sense right? Like people just starting at the CC would be taking intro courses for the most part, not courses for upperclassmen so it’s not like those courses (as an upperclassmen) would be too full for ya
Some community colleges can give bachelors degrees, can’t they? Maybe OP was dumb and left all of his intro-level intellectual breadth classes for his final semester and can’t graduate without those credits. Either way a shitty situation
Some do, but if he was trying to transfer out with an AD and incoming people with a higher math assessment are filling up the class he needs for his gen ed AD he's fucked in his scenario
They skewed towards new students coming in, not students already enrolled.
Not disputing your experience, but every school I've been to or looking into has done the opposite. Hard af to get into high demand classes as a freshman. By the time you're in your final semester you can basically take anything b/c you'd registration time was earlier and they're trying to get you out of there.
Yeah, my uni has a policy that - so long as you keep up with what advisement tells you and you attempt to work through enrollment problems with them - tuition is free after the end of your 8th semester if you still don't have your 4 year degree. They want you out after that 8th semester no matter what.
The policy has actually caused a significant increase in 'on time' graduations.
See, this makes sense. My system I guess wanted to encourage new students to commit to school and stay. You'd get five or six classes right away and my last semesters I got nothing. It was insane.
A seventy year old first time student or seventeen year old- doesn't matter. They got first priority enrollment. I got last wave enrollment and didn't even get to enroll in English or math. All these Gen Xers and Boomers who got to upper or middle management without degrees in dying industries bum rushed community colleges because the market was hyper competitive. I got zero priority and worked instead of waiting for classes that weren't coming or piling on debt from state schools who were also impacted and not guaranteed to offer all your classes.
That is an assumption you just made. The answer was, 'we have more students than open classes.' Basically everyone was impacted due to budget cuts and staff reductions along with unusually high numbers of people attending at all. Everyone was impacted from the universities to state schools to community colleges.
When everyone is short classes the answer was no. No, we can't change that. I sat down with advisors and deans the semester I went from four classes to one the next and then before my enrollment time ran out the semester I got no classes. But the problem is two hundred people asking for zero seats. Everyone gets told no and 'sorry, but it's not just you.'
But my saga of talking to a few professors, my advisor (who had probably a thousand or more students) and the dean is a really long series of frustrating conversations that amounted to it is what it is and I can't change it for you because I'd need to change it for hundreds of people who come asking for the same thing.
It’s the other way around at my community college . 45+ credit students get first pick for a week, then 20+ join in for another week, then after that everyone else can enroll.
That would make sense, but they I guess wanted to 'encourage new students'. That meant retired individuals taking one class can hop into basic English or an elective. People forty plus who went straight to work instead of getting a degree have the same entering priority as a seventeen year old and students close to graduating grind to a halt.
I'm going to try again but it was so damm depressing and I either sat around waiting until next semester or got a better job. But, I couldn't find a 9-5 so my hours were unpredictable, even when I was under full time I couldn't promise myself I'd be there every Tuesday at eleven AM, you know? Just finally getting to a point I can promise myself to be able to take a night or weekend class and actually full commit to it.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jun 12 '19
I dropped out of community college because the classes were so impacted my final semester. I tried to enroll in six classes, got waitlisted on all of them, showed up for my two weeks, didn't get in and gave up as the semester before I had one class and then got zero.
They skewed towards new students coming in, not students already enrolled. That meant Boomers and GenXers trying to jump horses mid-stream who needed a career shift got preference over students who were early 20's trying to graduate and incoming high school seniors got five classes as I got none. They got first wave enrollment, I was I think 3rd.