UCLA Enrollment Project
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How fast does a particular class (the popular LS7A displayed here) fill up?
UCLA is a big university, the biggest out of any UC currently. Having to be worried around enrollment time is something students at most colleges face, but the problems become magnified when you realize that there could be literally hundreds of people gunning for a spot in the class that can only seat 30 people. People fuss about not being able to get out of 8AM classes at other colleges, but at least in my experience at UCLA, you start hearing more concerning stories much more commonly, all the way up to ones where people can’t take certain classes they need to graduate and have to take an extra quarter just because a certain class they needed filled up. It’s to the point where people paying other to hold spots for them in certain classes is a common practice, which in my opinion, really shouldn’t have to be common.
For these reasons, I have recently taken an interest in ways to record enrollment data to mainly answer questions like “how fast do certain classes fill up?”, “which classes have a high drop rate?”, “is this class more popular during the first or second enrollment passes?”, and many many others. As well as to satisfy my own curiosity, I thought other people might want to have a look at the data for their own classes or curiosity, so I made this website so that I could present my findings, and even let people search for their own classes in the Class Fill-Up section.
Read all about how I built the scraper to get the data, and some cool visualizations and evaluations of my findings on the project’s website.
