Electives filling up

mops

So i get an email today telling me 50 more people have applied for it and places will be randomly selected next friday, knowing my luck iwont get it so all other electives will be full what are u supposed to do?? I dont want to be landed with a boring elective..:(

Mardy Bum

Join the queue theres more than twice the number registered for mine than it takes!

amtaxi

ditto

failsafe

Got the same email, are you guys now showing 10 credits short because you haven't been selected for those electives yet?

I'm 10 credits short, but can't figure out why as I've registered for everything, my only guess is that I'll have to wait for this random selection before my registration status shows as complete?

Chet T16

failsafe wrote: »

Got the same email, are you guys now showing 10 credits short because you haven't been selected for those electives yet?

I'm 10 credits short, but can't figure out why as I've registered for everything, my only guess is that I'll have to wait for this random selection before my registration status shows as complete?

From the registration page

The Reg 09/10 column indicates the number of modules you are registered to this academic year. 'Provisional' electives do not count here until after provisional allocation on 5th September.

bnt

I got this in an email the other day:

[FONT='PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif']CVEN30110 - Transportation Engineering

Capacity: 5 general elective places.
Registered: 5 provisionally registered.

This module is currently oversubscribed and places will be randomly allocated.[/FONT]

OK ... :rolleyes:

bythewoods

Yeah.... there's about 55 places for the Psychology elective I chose.
Well over 200 people have signed up for it...

On the plus side, there's 100 places fro Teanga na Gaeilge and only about 60 took a place so far. That's awwwright so. Didn't expect there to be too much demand for it tbh.

quicklickpaddy

the music elective i picked only has 3 places and so far 14 have applied...

Raemie

Ive a slightly different question, i picked an in-program elective and on the little side bar thing saying how much of everything you are registered to, it lists it as core/option. Because of the other elective being provisional i now seem to be registered to 55 core/option and 0 electives. Will this sort itself out or will i have to go to the program office?

Chet T16

Raemie wrote: »

Ive a slightly different question, i picked an in-program elective and on the little side bar thing saying how much of everything you are registered to, it lists it as core/option. Because of the other elective being provisional i now seem to be registered to 55 core/option and 0 electives. Will this sort itself out or will i have to go to the program office?

I'm in the same situation. One of my electives is also an option module so mine is showing a 55/5 split.

I found this on the registration page

Certain in programme electives may count towards your core requirements rather than elective - this does not mean that your registration is incorrect.

Raemie

Chet T16 wrote: »

Certain in programme electives may count towards your core requirements rather than elective - this does not mean that your registration is incorrect.

So does that mean that it does in fact count as an elective, or not?

Chet T16

I don't see why it wouldn't but i never did get confirmation of it.

You can go to one of the assisted registration labs this week if you're unsure

Raemie

I have to talk to the program office about some other stuff anyway so i might mention it then, but i'm not worried about it anymore thanks!

bnt

Raemie wrote: »

So does that mean that it does in fact count as an elective, or not?

Not sure where you're coming from. You have core courses and electives: with your core courses, you may have some limited choices, depending on your degree programme e.g. Omnibus degrees. Once those are satisfied, you have to take additional courses to make up the credit numbers to 60 per stage, and those are called electives. There should be no confusion whether a course is an elective or not - it says so in the SIS registration system.

Whether the course is in-programme or not doesn't come in to it, it's just that you can choose to do an in-programme elective to "go deeper", or not. If you do, you have some advantages e.g. no schedule clashes with lectures or exams, since the whole programme is planed for. More knowledge of your subject, which can feed back in to your core subject knowledge. Disadvantage: less of that eclectic "university experience", if you believe in that sort of thing.

Raemie

In my thing at the side of the reg page it says core/options out of 100 and electives out of 20, a total of 120 for 2nd and 3rd year. Im supposed to pick 50 core and 10 electives this year and the same next year but it currently says 55/100 and 0/20. thats why i was wondering if it was going to be a problem.

samsamson

Do we only get sent an e-mail if too many people have applied to our chosen elective?

I haven't heard anything (good, or bad) from UCD about the elective I chose. No e-mails or anything.

Chet T16

bnt wrote: »

Not sure where you're coming from. You have core courses and electives: with your core courses, you may have some limited choices, depending on your degree programme e.g. Omnibus degrees. Once those are satisfied, you have to take additional courses to make up the credit numbers to 60 per stage, and those are called electives. There should be no confusion whether a course is an elective or not - it says so in the SIS registration system.

Whether the course is in-programme or not doesn't come in to it, it's just that you can choose to do an in-programme elective to "go deeper", or not. If you do, you have some advantages e.g. no schedule clashes with lectures or exams, since the whole programme is planed for. More knowledge of your subject, which can feed back in to your core subject knowledge. Disadvantage: less of that eclectic "university experience", if you believe in that sort of thing.

In my case i had most of my core modules preselected and i had to pick one module out of a choice of three as my last core.

For one of my electives i picked another of the option modules and the credit for that elective is being counted as an option/core module.

It states on the page (i quoted above) that this isn't an error

If the attached screenshot you can see the Computer Sci for Engineers is showing up under option modules and electives

Chet T16

samsamson wrote: »

Do we only get sent an e-mail if too many people have applied to our chosen elective?

I haven't heard anything (good, or bad) from UCD about the elective I chose. No e-mails or anything.

What does it say under status on your registration page?

samsamson

- Subjects/Streams completed.
- Core / Options still required.
- Electives still required.
- Labs/Tutorials completed.

Core/Options still required is because I'm not able to pick by 3rd year subjects yet.