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Priority Enrollment Concerns For the Cluster Program
Priority Enrollment Limits
Priority enrollment groups include students in academic difficulty, Regents and Alumni Scholars, recruited scholarship recipients, Letters and Science Honors Programs participants (including Clusters), athletes in NCAA sports, and students served by the Office for Students with Disabilities. In accordance with recommendations of a task force appointed by the Committee on Educational Policy, sections are carefully monitored during each priority group pass to ensure that two conditions are met:
- That all priority groups do not exceed a combined total of 50 percent of a section’s enrollment spaces.
- No one group exceeds 30 percent of a section’s enrollment spaces.
Please see http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/enroll.htm for a description of what student can do during each enrollment pass
Priority Enrollment for Winter Quarter Cluster Students
Cluster lectures and discussion sections are scheduled for the same time in fall and winter quarters. Ideally, students should use their priority pass for winter quarter to set the rest of their schedule around their cluster lecture and discussion section. Typically the priority enrollment limits are not an issue.
Priority Enrollment for Spring Quarter Cluster Students
Competition over seminar choices tends to lead cluster students in to use their priority pass to enroll in their first-choice cluster seminar. This is where the priority limits can create confusion.
Typical Error Messages: Below are a couple of typical error messages students may see on URSA if they are trying to enroll into a seminar and have reached one of the two priority limits:
“Priority Limit has been reached”
This refers to the 50% cap
“The number of spaces allocated to your priority group in this section has been reached.”
This refers to the 30% cap for individual priority groups
These are actual restrictions that will prevent a student from enrolling in a seminar during priority pass. Cluster teaching teams can decide how they want to handle enrollment. Be assured, the Cluster Office will not issue PTEs nor will we enroll anyone without the express written consent of the seminar leader or cluster coordinator.
Students with questions or problems with their enrollment should be referred to their academic counselor.
