Waitlisted students (for online mathematics courses)

I am glad that you are interested in one of our upcoming online courses, and I do hope that you will be able to join. I know that waiting for a required course can be frustrating. Students on the waitlist are considered in order as seats become available, and many students are ultimately able to enroll. I hope you will be able to join the class.

Please understand that every student on the waitlist has a reason for wanting or needing an online course. We recognize that students may have work, family, transportation, scheduling, health, or other circumstances that make online enrollment especially important. Because so many students have compelling reasons, we cannot prioritize individual requests outside the established enrollment and waitlist process.

If the course is full, the most important thing you can do is join the waitlist and wait. Students are added from the waitlist in order as seats become available. Emailing me or another instructor generally will not change your position or result in earlier enrollment; in most cases, you will simply be directed back to this page.

About seats reserved for NDS students

Some seats are reserved for Non-Degree Studies (NDS) students, who register later than regularly enrolled students. These individuals are often far from campus and the distance education sections are intended to include them. We do not release NDS-reserved seats before the NDS registration deadline. We give NDS students about a week to enroll before releasing the seats.

You can find the applicable registration dates on the NC State Enrollment Calendar.

Please do not email an instructor asking for an NDS-reserved seat to be released early; you may be directed back to this page. Those holds remain in place until the appropriate NDS registration deadline has passed.

Timeline

If you are planning for next semester

  • If the class is full, please join the waitlist as soon as you are able.
  • If the waitlist itself is full, additional seats may sometimes become available later.
  • At this stage, there is usually nothing else you need to do. Please remain on the waitlist and allow the enrollment process to continue.
  • Emailing me or another instructor to request a seat will generally result in being directed back to this page. Instructors cannot move students ahead of others on the waitlist.

If classes begin in several weeks

  • Please remain on the waitlist.
  • There may not yet be useful information about exactly how many seats will become available.
  • Many enrollment changes occur much closer to the beginning of the semester.
  • Please do not email asking to be added ahead of the waitlist or asking whether an exception can be made. Students cannot be added out of order.
  • If you email an instructor simply because you are waiting for a seat, you will likely be directed back to this page.

If it is one to two weeks before classes begin

  • This is typically when we begin adding waitlisted students as space becomes available.
  • Students are added in the order they joined the waitlist.
  • Enrollment can change quickly during this period, so please remain on the waitlist and allow the process to work.
  • Some seats may become available as registration changes occur and applicable reserved-seat deadlines pass.
  • Please do not email instructors asking for your individual chances of enrollment, requesting to be moved ahead of other students, or asking for an individual update. We generally do not have useful individualized information to provide.
  • If you are already on the waitlist, emailing an instructor will not improve your position and will most likely result in being directed back to this page.

When should you email for help?

You should contact us if you have a specific enrollment problem that requires an override rather than simply needing a seat in a full course.

For example, a high school student with AP credit may need an enrollment override because the registration system cannot automatically recognize the prerequisite.

For help with an enrollment override, please complete the Math Enrollment Override Request. You will be asked to justify why an override is appropriate.

If you are a regularly enrolled on-campus student and your only issue is that the course is full, please join the waitlist and wait. Emailing an instructor in that situation will generally result in being directed back to this page.

Communication between May 16 and August 15

Dr. Maultsby and other instructors are generally not under contract between May 16 and August 15. Please be mindful that responding to individual enrollment inquiries during this period requires faculty to perform work outside their contracted appointment. For that reason, students with routine questions about full courses or waitlists should use the information on this page rather than contacting instructors individually.

If you email during this period about a full course or your position on the waitlist, you may not receive a response, or you may simply be directed back to this page when communication resumes. If you are already on the waitlist, no additional action is needed.

The NC State work year begins on August 16. Enrollment communication and activity may increase after that date, but being on the waitlist remains the appropriate next step for students seeking a seat in a full course.

Online Calculus 2 and Calculus 3 information

If you are interested in online Calculus 2 or Calculus 3, preliminary course information is available here: