Ball State students got their schedules for the Fall Semester on Sunday, and some saw a couple of unwanted changes made to their requests.
This is just part of the registration process.
Nancy Cronk, registrar and director of registration and academic progress, said student course requests are made to give each department an idea of the demand for certain courses.
"It's to their benefit to submit a request," she said. "Every student has a priority, based on their number of credits or a specific program."
Once the request is made, the office of the registrar sends the information to the different departments on campus, which look at the number of credits each student has, their year, their major and the courses they need to take in order to graduate. A student with a priority to graduate by the end of the semester will get accepted to a course over someone that has more years left.
"A lot of students think that if they submit their request immediately after they open that they will get the class," Cronk said.
Reinhart Wibisono, a freshman criminology major, said although his exercise course got pushed to an 8 a.m. class, he still thinks signing up online for courses is convenient.
"I can do it from my bed, I don't even need to walk," Wibisono said.
While students think registering online is convenient and easy, some believe there needs to be more fairness. Samantha Hood, a freshman merchandising major, said from the 15 credit hours she requested, only nine made it onto her schedule.
"I don't know if they need to change how they do it," she said. "But it does not make sense when two people with the same number of credits and in the same year get different things."
Priority is taken into consideration only when students register for fall and spring courses. In the summer, course requests are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
When a course is full, the office of the registrar will try to find another section to add to the schedule. This may cause a shift on the rest of the courses and students can go back and verify their schedules.
However, if a course from a specific department is full, the registrar's office will advice the student to talk with their department to request they add a seat to the class.
Students have until Aug. 26, the fifth day of the Fall Semester, to change their schedule.
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