Once a student is adds themselves to a waitlist, an enrollment process is ran hourly and enrolls students based on seat availability and their waitlist position. Although students are made aware of their position number at the time of being placed on the waitlist, students may always check their position number in their class schedule in myUMBC.
There are various scenarios that could prevent enrollment from waitlist. They can include the following, but not limited to:
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You might not be able to register from the waitlist for one of the following reasons:
- One of your current classes has a time conflict with another class that the student is already enrolled in.The student has not met prerequisite requirements the waitlisted class.
- You have not met the prerequisite for the class.
- There is You have a financial or other hold (negative service indicator) on the student's account at the time of on your account that prevents enrollment.
- The student is You are enrolled in the maximum number of credits for the semester. The student will need to complete the Excess Credit form the Office for Academic and Pre-Professional Advising.
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