As the semester comes to a close, scheduling has opened for students of every priority.Scheduling, which opened March 29, generally went off without a hitch, according to Associate Registrar Patricia Beste. The last tier of priority students began registering Thursday. Students will have the option to make changes to their schedules until July 12 at 7 p.m. before scheduling closes for billing purposes.Fee bills will be available via PAWS on July 19, and the payments will be due Aug. 6, Beste said. The waitlist feature has proven a success in its second year of use. For the spring semester, nearly 12,000 courses were added to students’ schedules from waitlists, University Registrar Robert Doolos told The Daily Reveille in March. The waitlist feature allows students to place their names on a waiting list once a class becomes full. Ranking lists are available for students to find out where they fall on the waitlist. Students can opt as to whether they are notified when the course becomes available or the course can be added automatically.Before the waitlisting option was available, students were forced to wait for an opening in the class, contact their potential professors or wait until the following semester to enroll in the course.”It’s working wonderfully,” Beste said. “Students are using a lot, and it seems to be doing exactly what it was designed for. It’s a huge number of students that put their names on, and the system works, and they get moved into the class.”Individual departments determine if the waitlist feature is available for each course and, further, for each section of each course. An undetermined number of classes have holds on them because of uncertainty about their availability during the fall semester, Beste said.”At this point in time, there’s just some question about whether it’s going to be offered or if it’s going to be moved or there’s a faculty who’s in question over whether or not they’ll be here,” Beste said. – – – -Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]