3.4 Waitlisted/Closed Classes

Students must attend the first meeting of a seminar or a course with a waitlist in order to stay enrolled in the class. A student on the waitlist who wishes to register for the class must attend the first class as well. Exceptions can only be made with faculty permission, and only if attending the desired, waitlisted, class would prevent the student from attending a class for which the student is registered and from which students will be dropped after the first class if they don’t attend.  In some cases, the professor may be able to accommodate the students on the waitlist who attend the first class. A student who wishes to drop a class (whether a seminar or a course that was included in the bidding process or live registration) must do so by the date and time specified by the Office of the Registrar.  (See the Academic Calendar for each quarter’s deadline.) Please note that faculty have the authority to drop students who do not attend the first class, regardless of whether or not the class has a waitlist.

Responsibility for making sure classes are dropped by the appropriate deadline rests solely with the students. Students should not rely on faculty to drop them from classes, nor should they assume that by not attending the first meeting they have been dropped from a class. Students can view their class schedule at my.uchicago.edu.