So I just found out that my current choices for college are pretty much limited to:
1) Take classes this upcoming summer (which will hopefully be available)
2) Take a fifth year of classes
Neither of which will be covered by my scholarship.
This is because last year the university decided to change their writing requirement (which you have to take prior to being able to do your year-long "capstone" project that you need to graduate) from an english class to a new specialized engineering class. They failed to account for the simple fact that by requiring every single engineering junior in the entire school to take the class that they wouldn't have enough bloody classes available. As such unless I get very lucky or they decide to miraculously open more sections (which their emails have expressed is pretty unlikely), then I'm just shit out of luck. They have said "there will be a single course of it offered this upcoming summer", however from what I've heard from talking to other juniors it seems like something like 1/3-1/2 of the juniors are facing the same problem as me, so there's a fair chance that even the summer class is going to fill up really fast.
I find it really aggravating when universities suggest that you take a required class in a given year, have estimates of approximately how many students they have that would be taking it, and then don't make enough classes for them all to take it.
Also why the heck is the university add/drop classes and course catalogs giving me classes that are either:
1) Not offered at all
2) Not offered in the term I have selected
For goodness sake it would take like 10 seconds to add a automatic filter to the list that removes those classes.