Please check the FAQ link for answers concerning different topics, and send an email to an appropriate contact (right-hand column) only if your answer isn't in a FAQ page.
| Topic | FAQ Link | |
|---|---|---|
| Registration issues and waitlists | this page | gradinfo at stat dt ubc dot ca |
| On-line registration not recognizing pre-requisites | https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main | contact course co-ordinator |
| Statistics program advising | https://www.stat.ubc.ca/undergraduate-faqs | ugradadv at stat dot ubc dot ca |
| Changing to Statistics major | https://www.stat.ubc.ca/undergraduate-faqs#faq-tabs-1 | latemajorentrants at stat dot ubc dot ca |
| Data science minor | https://www.stat.ubc.ca/undergraduate-faqs#faq-tabs-3 | dsugradadv at stat dot ubc dot ca |
| UBC transfer credits |
https://students.ubc.ca/enrolment/registration/transfer-credits/post-sec... |
transfer.credits at ubc dot ca |
| Course outlines (previous years) | https://www.stat.ubc.ca/course-lookup | gradinfo at stat dot ubc dot ca |
ADVISING AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please read the information and FAQs below before asking for assistance. Your question may well be answered here. If your question remains unanswered, please contact the Student Services Coordinator. Registration assistance is handled centrally via email, so please do not contact course instructors or come to the Main Office for registration assistance, as you will be directed back to this webpage.
Please ensure that you register in courses and labs as soon as your registration window opens. Our courses fill up fast, and we will not register you in a course that is full because you missed your registration window.
Registration priority is given to students registered in Statistics majors (including combined majors) during the first month of registration, or up until August 1st, whichever comes first. After that, any seat that are not filled will be opened to students from other programs. This includes waitlists.
DSCI 100: Please note we have a new waitlist for the Python section DSCI 100 100, the waitlist is DSCI 100 WL4. We encourage any students wishing to take that section and cant get in right now to register in that waitlist. It takes time to move students from the waitlist into the course as it has to be done manually so please do not contact the office if you see seats available in the course if it is blocked. It will be unblocked once all priority students have been registered first.
PREREQUISITES:
Our firm policy is that students must have the required prerequisites to enroll in Statistics courses. Prerequisites for each course are as stated in the UBC Calendar. Many of our courses have a hard prerequisite check, which means that students who are lacking the exact prerequisite will be barred from registering in the course.
If you believe you should be eligible to register because, for example, you have legitimate transfer credits to meet the prerequisites, please email the Student Services Coordinator. You will need to submit transcripts and course outlines/syllabus in order to demonstrate how you meet the prerequisites for the course. This should be done at least one month ahead of your registration time to allow time for assessment.
For courses where a hard prerequisite check does not exist, please note that students are still expected to meet the prerequisites for the course. If you do not have permission to take a course for which you are lacking the official prerequisite, you may be removed from the course.
Credit excluded courses: Students should keep in mind that a credit excluded course cannot be used in place of a prerequisite. Please plan your courses carefully with a view to courses you may want to take in the future. Credit excluded courses have some overlap in content, but are not direct equivalents, and thus cannot be substituted as a prerequisite.
REPEATING A COURSE:
It is a Faculty of Science regulation that students may NOT repeat a course for a higher standing. Students are only able to repeat a course if they received a failing grade. Only your Faculty Advising office has the authority to register you in a course that you previously failed.
WAITLISTS:
This information needs to be updated with the implementation of Workday Student
If there is a waitlist for a full course that you want and have the prerequisites for, you should register on the waitlist immediately.
Please note the following regarding waitlists:
- If all non-restricted seats are full, and you do not meet the restrictions for the available seats, please register yourself on the waitlist.
- Waitlists work on a priority basis for students who register before August 1st. As seats become available, students are moved manually into the course in the following order:
- Students in a Statistics specialization (including majors and combined majors, and all other variations), and students in certain other specializations for whom the course is required, and who register on the waitlist during BEFORE AUGUST 1ST*
- Students in a Statistics specialization who wish to take the course to fulfill STAT elective requirements, and who register on the waitlist during BEFORE AUGUST 1ST*
- Students registered in a minor in Statistics
- Everyone else in order of registration on the waitlist (including graduate students from other departments, non-Stat majors, visiting students, exchange and Go Global students, and Stat majors after the first month of registration)
- In some cases, higher priority may be accorded to students in a certain year or specialization. Within a category, students are moved in order of the date they joined the waitlist. *Students should register on the waitlist as soon as possible. If you do not register on the waitlist during the first month after registration opens, you will not be given priority, in order to be fair to other students who are on the waitlist.
- If you are a student who is in 4th year, and need a course to graduate in May, you may be considered for forced registration or priority in the waitlist. To be eligible for priority registration, you must register on the waitlist and notify the Student Services Coordinator of your situation BEFORE AUGUST 1ST. Please note that only students who are within 30 credits (in September) or 15 credits (in January) of graduation will be considered for forced registration, and only when the course is required, and not an elective. We will verify this information, and notify you if you qualify. If you are able to take another course to fulfill your requirements, you will be asked to register in that course if it is not full. Please note that you will not receive this priority if you have failed to be promoted to 4th year.
- We will be moving students from the waitlist into the course in batches, and this may not occur every day. Thus, a course may seem to have seats available for several days before we will fill the seats from the waitlist. Please be patient, and do not contact the Department about this issue.
- Waitlists are managed according to the priorities described above. Please do not contact the instructor or office staff to ask about your waitlist position, or to request the ability to jump the queue (except as per item 3).
- Students who are unable to register in the waitlist for reasons such as prerequisite issues should contact the Student Services Coordinator as soon as possible to be placed on the list. Please see our information on prerequisites for more information.
- Most courses with a waitlist will use these policies up to the add/drop deadline. After the add/drop deadline, no further students will be admitted to our courses, and the waitlist will be purged close to the end of office hours.
- If we attempt to move you from the waitlist into the course, and you have meanwhile registered yourself in something that conflicts, we will contact you via email about the conflict. You will be given 24 hours to clear the conflict, after which time we will move on to the next student. We will only attempt to contact you once, so it is up to you to monitor your email, and clear any conflicts in a timely manner.
REGISTRATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: