Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!gitpyr!scott From: scott@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Holt) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Drop dates for classes Message-ID: <1123@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 13:45:12 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1123 Posted: Sun Dec 1 13:45:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Dec-85 03:43:14 EST References: <1054@gitpyr.UUCP> <43@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> <11062@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology. Lines: 35 > Here at UC Berkeley, drop date is the end of the fifth week of classes. > By this time, MOST classes (but, unfortunately, not all) have already had > at least one midterm as well as several assignments. Personally, I would > like to see the drop date pushed back until the eight or tenth week or > so, but I can see where that would cause problems. For one thing, students > would tend to sign up for more classes than they intended to complete, thus > increasing Cal's chronic over-crowding problems. The situtation with over crowding is exactly the reason why we at Ga. Tech have taken the question of a more restrictive drop policy. Currently we are able to drop up to the end of the 5th week ( we are on a 10 week quarter ) with no restrictions ( generaly, some schools in the institute are more restrictive ). It was the general opinion of the committee that I am on that the drop policy was a cause of some of our overcrowding problems. We introduced a bill that would limit the total number of drops to 6 ( 2 as a freshman, 1 as a sophmore, 1 as a junior, and 2 as a senior ). The bill also contained request that advisment procedures be improved, that schools try to stop listing 'Staff' as the instructor in the schedule of classes, and that students be limited to 19 hours during pre-registration. The bill passed, sans drop policy. Do the schools out there with 'liberal' drop policies have much of a problem with overcrowding, or classes closing out early in registration? Also, what kind of advisment procedures do you have and are the instructors for a class know before registration? - Scott -- --------- I'll stop procrastinating tomorow. Scott Holt Georgia Tech Po Box 36199 Atlanta, GA 30332 USENET: scott@gitpyr BITNET: CCASTSH AT GITVM1