For those of you who finalized your schedules months ago, it might be hard to believe that some of your compatriots have not yet finished enrolling, but we keep hearing from students who need help finding those last two classes or who still haven’t been able to get into a full class even though they’ve been checking SPIRE all summer. If you are one of those students who still hasn’t finalized your class schedule, now is the time to get serious about it.  And to help you stay sane until the end of add/drop, remember the following:

• If you are hoping to get into a class that’s been full for months, just keep checking SPIRE a few times a day, because things should start opening up during the first week of school.

• If you are unable to enroll in something that you think you’re eligible for, be sure to open up the course page to find out what the specific restrictions are. You might find out you are not actually eligible for that section.

• If you are trying to get into a class that is NOT AN ECONOMICS CLASS, your Economics advisor cannot help you.  You must contact the department that offers the class. Use your google skills to find the contact info. We know you can do it!

• If the course is an Economics course that is either full or listed as “Instructor Consent”, you must contact the instructor. Your advisor may be sympathetic to your plight, but can do nothing for you except hand you a tissue to dry your tears. If the instructor wants to let you into the class, they will contact the Economics Faculty Secretary, who will then enroll you and send you a confirmation email.

• Do not wait until the second week to finalize your schedule!  Make every effort to finalize your classes in the first week, because it may be very difficult to get caught up in a class if you add it after you’ve missed a few class meetings. No sense going through all the trouble to add it if you’re just going to get a D in it.

• Be sure to double check your schedule in SPIRE to make sure you are actually enrolled in what you THINK you are enrolled in. Every semester, there are a few students who fail a class because they thought they dropped it the second week, but they never actually drop the class. Surprise! There are also people who have to fill out a bunch of paperwork for a late add because they thought they added a class, but they never clicked [Finish Enrolling]. So check it carefully and make necessary adjustments before the end of add/drop.