Ready, set, enroll: Class registration outcomes

Photo Illustration by Samantha Rosinski, Staff Photographer

As the clock strikes on students’ class registration time slot, they rush to press the enroll button. 

April 7 marked the roll out of class registration season to enroll in fall 2025 classes. To register, students visit their student center website to add classes they need to their shopping cart, then wait for their time slot to press enroll. 

Class registration time slots are prioritized based on the number of credits and class standing a student has. 

Sofia Robe, a sophomore health sciences major, only ended up in one class she wanted after enrollment. 

“My class registration was very stressful,” said Robe. “I had to sign up for other classes I didn't plan on signing up for next semester. The classes were all full and the ones I needed to take were reserved for majors, even though I also needed to take the classes to graduate.” 

As the class registration process fell short of Robe’s expectations, she thinks these problems could be resolved if Chapman took the initiative. 

“The classes that fill up quickly should be offered in bigger classrooms or have more time slots so that everyone can take the classes they need,” said Robe. 

In the Sandhu Conference Center, Undergraduate Advising puts on an event called Advising Fest, where students are able to receive guidance and ask questions about which classes to enroll in. This year's fest began April 7. 

Due to high demands for the laboratory classes in the health sciences major, an advisor working at the Advising Fest seemed unclear on how to resolve the strain in enrollment, according to Vanessa Joco, a sophomore health sciences major. 

“I didn’t find it that helpful,” said Joco. “My advisor told me that she couldn’t do anything if I didn’t get into my class, and to take more general electives that would fulfill my minor requirements. That would mean one of my later semesters would have three labs, and I am unsure of how I would be able to balance all those difficult classes.” 

Joco said watching the numbers of available seats for each class she needed go down caused her to fear for her future plans.

“Enrolling for classes was extremely difficult for me as some of my classes had labs as a prerequisite, so I had to get a seat in both to be able to take the class,” said Joco. “It was extremely stressful seeing the open seats go down with every time slot that went by, and I was nervous that I wasn’t going to get into one of the classes I needed to graduate on time.” 

It’s not just the health sciences majors experiencing this stress. 

It’s uncommon to get into every class you need, according to Sofia Guevarra, a sophomore psychology major. 

“Registration is usually never good for me,” said Guevarra. “Every time I register, all the classes I want to take are full, so I have to be on the waitlist. For the most recent class registration, I became waitlisted for four out of the five classes I need to take for the fall semester next year.” 

Miya Matsumoto, a freshman psychology major, said that the constraints in class registration could probably be resolved in one simple solution. 

“For a lot of my friends in business, I know that there were only a few class sections for a class they needed to take for their major, but they were all filled,” said Matsumoto. “I think offering more sections for high demand classes would be nice, so people don’t need to stress about if they will even get into any class.” 

Each semester, when class registration rolls around, many students fear that they won’t end up in the classes they need, said Robe. 

“Everyone I have talked to did not get all the classes they wanted and were very stressed,” said Robe. 

The Panther reached out to the Office of the University Registrar and they did not respond to a request for comment or interview request.