Waitlisting Information

The centralized waitlist process will allow students to make just one combined request and allow the department to fairly and efficiently prioritize needs so students can enroll in courses they need to progress through the major.

Important notes:

• Any remaining open seats after registration has ended will be allocated by need and class standing. Since your position on the waitlist will not be a factor in determining who is allowed to add a course, please refrain from emailing instructors.
• Waitlist responses are not processed on a first-come-first-served basis, so you don’t need to rush to complete the waitlist so long as you do so before Friday, May 2. Please take your time and make sure that the information is accurate. 

WAITLIST TIMELINE

The Fall 2025 Qualtrics Waitlist Survey is now closed.

The deadline to complete and submit the Fall 2025 Qualtrics Waitlist Survey was Friday, May 2.

It is important that you correctly and completely fill out the waitlist survey. If your request is incorrect or incomplete, it will not be added to any waitlist. It is in your best interest to select all classes you’d wish to take in the fall. Selecting fewer courses does not improve your odds of getting into one of your top choices.

When you finish the survey, you will see a summary of your responses, which you can download as a pdf. If you do not receive this summary, then we haven’t received a completed response from you. 

We hope to notify students of their waitlist status by the end of May. Students offered a seat off a waitlist need to respond promptly or risk forfeiting that spot. 

Procedure

• The waitlist is a Qualtrics survey that can be accessed when a link is posted after the on-line Banner registration period has ended for the fall or spring term.
• Please fill out the waitlist survey just once to be waitlisted for as many Economics courses as you choose. (Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the prerequisites for the courses you list and failure to do so may mean that you’re not able to take the course assigned to you through the waitlist process.)
• Please fill out the waitlist survey completely and accurately or you will not be placed on any waitlists.
• If you forgot something, or your situation changes and you need to make a change, you may submit the form again as long as the waitlist is still open. It is helpful to put a note in the comments section when submitting a corrected request. If you submit multiple requests, the most recent time stamped request will be used and the others will be deleted.
• Once the waitlists are compiled, the department will review the needs and preferences of each student and attempt to find placements for as many students as possible in the courses they need to stay on track to meet the major requirements. Depending on availability, either the course instructors or the department coordinator will email students once we learn what course(s) we can offer you a seat in. The number of available spaces in courses will determine the number of students who will be able to be offered a seat off the waitlist. (Instructors may not over enroll their classroom capacity.) If you receive such an email, you should respond promptly or risk losing the spot.
• We understand that registration can be a stressful time, however, we ask that you refrain from emailing individual instructors, the chair, and/or the department coordinator to check on your status. This is a very time-consuming process and additional, unnecessary emails will only bog things down.
• Please be patient. We may not be able to get you into your first or second choices, however, we will make sure you get into courses that you need to meet your major requirements, especially for graduating seniors.

Updated 5/5/25 arh