All students can enroll up to 10 units through first pass. For
second pass, you can enroll up to the maximum credit hours allowed by your
college.
Priority (in decreasing order) is given to veterans, graduating
seniors, entering freshman (before you come in), seniors with graduation date
declared, seniors, junior, sophomores and freshmen. Freshmen are those with
0-45 units, sophomore 46-90 units, junior 91-135 units, senior 136-180 units.
It is possible to come in as junior if you have A-level or taken classes in
community college.
You can ask your senior to help you reserve a class sometimes
but if there is a waitlist, you will be placed in the last place of the
waitlist when the senior drops the class for you enroll in it. So, it works
well when there is no waitlist.
Class
registration is done through ursa.ucla.edu. You will want to sit in front of
your laptop just minutes before the enrollment time starts and finish it as
quickly as possible. Enrollment times can be found in ursa.ucla.edu as well.
For those who might discover the option of enrolling through the Class Planner
in my.ucla.edu, be warned that the system has some bugs that might prevent you
from enrolling and the extra few seconds spent trying to rectify it might cost
you your spot in the class.
Since UCLA has been cutting back on the number of classes
offered due to budget cut, you will find yourself fighting to get into first or
second year classes with other freshmen. If you are in the waitlist of a
popular class, talk to professor as soon as possible as it is unlikely you will
get in. But if your waitlist number is within the first 25%, chances are you
will be able to secure a spot when someone drops. You need to finalize your
schedule by the end of second week. And if you are in the waitlist, go to first
week classes, discussions and labs because professor might give out PTE number
(a magic number that gets you enrolled).
If you are not even on the waitlist, then it depends on what
class it is. If it is your major class, you should have no problem getting in
by talking to the professor or TA. If you just want to crash the class, most
professors don’t care if the class is a very big, but if it is a small class
then you might want to let them professor know that you want to audit that
class (it won’t be in your transcript).
Go to class early if you want a seat in great spot as first year
classes can be as big as 350 people.
