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This article explains how faculty can access their class waitlist through their class roster and answers frequently asked questions about waitlists.

Instructions | View Waitlisted Students

  1. Log in to SURF, click Faculty Center, and then My Schedule to view your classes.

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  1. Verify that you viewing your correct term. Click the Change Term button if not. Your class assignments for the current term are displayed on this page. Click the Class Roster icon to view the class roster for a specified class.

If you would like to select a different term, click the green Change Term link.

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  1. The default Enrollment Status view is Enrolled (waitlisted and dropped students do NOT display in this view). Click the Enrollment Status drop down list to select All or Waiting to view waitlisted students.

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 If you select Enrollment Status = All

Waitlisted students display after enrolled students with the status Waiting. The student’s Waitlist Position Number displays on the right side in the Status Note column.

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 If you select Enrollment Status = Waiting

Only waitlisted students display. The student’s Waitlist Position Number displays on the right side in the Status Note column.

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Instructions | View Waitlisted Class Detail

  1. If you would like to view detailed information about your class, return to the My Schedule page. Click the Class Section to view class detail.

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  1. Class detail information is displayed. If a class is currently closed and only adding students to the wait list, a yellow triangle icon will display in status. The Wait List Capacity is the same as the enrollment capacity. The Wait List Total are the current students on the wait list.

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Frequently Asked Waitlist Questions

 What is a wait list?

The SURF registration system provides the opportunity for students to be placed on a wait list for closed classes. SURF will also use an auto-enroll system. Auto-enroll will automatically enroll waitlisted students based on their position number when a seat becomes available. Auto-enroll will occur on a nightly basis.

 When do students get auto-enrolled into an open seat?

Auto-enroll will occur on a nightly basis. MiraCosta will notify students via e-mail if they have been auto-enrolled from a wait list into a class. If a student is automatically enrolled in a class, additional fees may be incurred by this enrollment and must be paid within 24 hours or the student will be dropped and not placed back on the wait list.

 What will prevent a student from being auto-enrolled into an open seat?

Students will not be auto-enrolled from the wait list if any one of the following conditions exists:

  1. Corequisites or prerequisites for the wait list class are not met.

  2. Debt or other hold.

  3. Student is seeking to repeat a course already completed.

If any of these conditions listed above exists, the auto-enroll system will enroll the next wait-listed student. Students who are skipped will receive an e-mail informing them that they were not placed into their wait-listed class and will remain on the wait list. They will be instructed to resolve the issue(s) if they wish to be placed into the class when another spot opens or they can remove themselves from the wait list. The third condition, course repetition, cannot be resolved in advance. The student must contact the instructor for permission to crash the class. If permission is granted, the student will then take the permission number to the Admissions and Records Office. A petition may be required.

 What is the first day a student can waitlist?

Wait lists begin with registration appointments. If a wait list is available, a yellow triangle icon will appear next to the section in the class schedule on SURF.

 What is the last day a student can waitlist?

The last day students can add themselves to a wait list is the Saturday before the start of the class. Students will no longer be auto-enrolled beginning the Sunday before the first day of classes. Beginning on the first day of classes, student enrollment into closed classes will be at the discretion of the instructor. If a student was not automatically enrolled and is still interested in adding classes for which they are wait-listed, the student must attend the class on the first day and obtain a permission number or have an add card signed by the instructor. If it is an online class, students must e-mail the instructor on or after the first day of class to request a permission number to add the class.

 What prevents students from adding themselves to a wait list?

  1. Enrollment appointment date/time has not yet been reached.

  2. Requisites for the class are not met. (Message is returned to student that requisites are not met, but it does not tell them specifically what type of requisite is not met).

  3. Maximum units to term and wait list reached: fall and spring, 18.0 combined; summer 8.0 combined.

  4. Instructor Consent required to enroll in the class.

  5. Student has a hold that prevents adding a class.

  6. The last day to waitlist has passed.

  7. Student is already enrolled or waitlisted in another section of the same course.

  8. Class is not yet closed.

  9. Wait list is at its capacity.

  10. Time conflict between a currently enrolled or waitlisted class.

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