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we DON'T look at your PE choices when determining your
academic schedule, and
you'll never get more than one
PE from web registration, regardless of how many choices you put down.
Near the bottom of the Web Registration page is a section labeled PE. In the three slots available, you may enter (in order of your preference) up to three choices for PE skills courses for the coming term. You are placed on a wait list -- not registered -- for each of these for the following reason.
For 30 years, two of the hallmarks of the W&L registration system have been that all students are given an equal shot at the various course section offering times and that the faculty are presented with well-balanced sections of multi-section courses. These priorities can only be realized by having students sign up for courses instead of specific sections and then assigning the actual times through a "batch" process later in the term. This part of the process will continue unchanged.
Your academic courses schedule is NOT created to accommodate a particular PE time. AFTER the times are assigned for the academic part of your schedule and then locked, the computer will look at your wait-listed PE course choices and, if they are both open and not in conflict with your academic schedule as it has been assigned, it will add one -- and only one -- PE course to your schedule. (This last policy ensures that all students have an opportunity to get one PE skills course before any student gets a second.) If you want a particular section, a different PE course, or more than one PE course, you'll have to handle that through the paper drop/add process at the beginning of the term. Here is our track record on scheduling PE skills courses.
By the way, if you are a varsity athlete, whether or not your are registering for credit for your sport, the academic scheduling process will try to give you an early section of multi-section academic classes, but it will NOT unbalance sections to accommodate it. If you end up with a late afternoon class, you'll need to take the class then or make a change through the paper drop/add process.
When you get your schedule, you may see one PE course or you may see none. If none, there are four reasons why you might not have been scheduled for a PE skills course:
This process also enables us to continue the
"tradition" of preventing block-and-drop strategies using PE courses.