Undergraduate Course Lottery

NOTE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS, LAW STUDENTS, GSB STUDENTS, ETC: The lottery is for undergraduates, because our courses are for undergraduates. If you enter the lottery, it creates a lot of extra work for us because we have to filter you out of the database. Please e-mail Christina Ablaza if you really want to take a course, and let us know your situation, but please understand that our classes are often impacted and undergraduates have priority.

Undergraduate Course Lottery

Note that enrollment in ENGLISH 190G THE GRAPHIC NOVEL and ENGLISH 290 ADVANCED FICTION is by application only; do not enter the lottery for 190G or 290.

Download the English 190G The Graphic Novel application form here.

Download the English 290 Advanced Fiction application form here.

To enter the lottery:

  1. Fill out the lottery form online when the lottery is open (see dates below)
  2. The lottery results are posted on the results page; results are also available in 460-223 during office hours
  3. Make sure to show up on time to your first class; priority is given to students who are present in class regardless of the lottery results
  4. If you need to switch your class section, or you forgot to enter the lottery, please see Christina Ablaza during office hours (8:00-12:00 and 1:00-5:00 M-F) in 460-223 as soon as possible; any available spaces (often very limited) will be filled on a first-come first-served basis

Please list at least a first and second choice; there are very few instances where a student does not receive at least his/her second choice class or section. Priority is given to upperclassmen and to those emphasizing or minoring in creative wiriting, and then is determined by chance (there is no advantage to entering the lottery first as long as you enter before the deadline).

Please do not list yourself as a creative writing minor or emphasis unless you have actually been approved. If it is going to matter, we check, and if we have to take time to correct your mistake, the only thing you've accomplished is delaying the posting of the results for everyone. If you are "intending to declare," for the purposes of the course lottery you are undeclared.

If you want to change your selections, simply resubmit your form. Your old selections will be overwritten.

If you have questions about the lottery, please e-mail Christina Ablaza.

Lottery Dates

Fall Quarter

TBA
Winter Quarter Opens Sunday, October 25

Closes FRIDAY, November 20 at 4:00 p.m.

Results will be posted on Tuesday, November 24 by 10:00 a.m.
Spring Quarter TBA