Waitlisting

The Banner registration system offers electronic waitlisting. Not all classes utilize waitlisting; academic departments determine which of their classes will have a waitlist and how they will utilize waitlisting. Please contact the academic department if you have questions on their waitlisted class. If a waitlist is available for a closed class, the student will be offered the waitlist option during registration.

A regular process is run to look for open spots in waitlisted classes and send notifications to the next person on the waitlist. These spots become available when someone drops the class or the department increases the quota. When this happens, the available seat(s) will show; however if the class has students on a waitlist, the system will not allow anyone to enroll in the open seats. The seats are saved until the notification is sent to the next student on the waitlist. The process runs at 10:00 am Sunday through Friday, except for certain excluded dates during extended periods when University offices are closed. During times when the process is not run, students may see that there are vacant seats but no one is able to enroll in the class until the process sends a notification to the next waitlisted student.

The timeline below provides information on dates when the process will and will not be run.

The above fall dates apply to full-term and first eight-week courses. Students can continue to waitlist second eight-week courses through March 8, 2026, and final notifications will be sent on March 9, 2026.  Courses in other parts-of-term may also use waitlisting. The last day notifications will be sent for open seats in smaller parts-of-term classes will always be before the course begins. 

Other Important Waitlisting Information:

• Classes in other parts-of-term may also use waitlisting. The last day notifications of open seats will be sent will always be before the class begins.

• Once a class starts, a process is run to remove students from those waitlists. Students are informed via email when this process has been completed.

• Students cannot waitlist/enroll for more than one section of the same course.
• Students can waitlist a lecture that has a lab without waitlisting the lab.
• Students cannot enroll in one class of a co-requisite pair (ie, lecture and lab) and waitlist the other.