VISA 0100 Lottery Details

1. Entering the VISA 0100 lottery constitutes a request for registration in the course. If a student enters the lottery and is awarded a place, the registrar's office will register the student for the course provided that doing so will not result in enrolling the student beyond the maximum course load (5 courses) or result in a time conflict with another course for which the student has registered. Once registered in VISA 0100, it will be the responsibility of the student to drop the course if he or she subsequently decides not to take it.
2. If a student "wins" a place in VISA 0100 but is already enrolled at the maximum course load (5 courses) or is registered for another course that meets at the same time, VISA 0100 will not be added to the student's schedule. The student will be notified by email and given a limited amount of time to adjust his or her schedule. Failure to make the change within the time allowed will result in the student's forfeiting the spot in VISA 0100.
3. Each student may enter the lottery only once, but may state preferences for as many sections as he or she wishes. When the lottery is conducted, highest priority will be given to a student's first choice, next highest to their second choice, and so on. Although it can be done, there is no value in entering the same section more than once. If placement into a first-choice section is not possible, placement into the same section will not be possible as a second choice either.
4. Students should be careful to enter their Banner ID numbers correctly. Although the number entered will be validated for correct form when it is submitted, it will not be checked to see if it matches an actual ID number in the Banner system until the lottery is run. At the time the lottery is run, entries for ID numbers that have no match in Banner will be discarded.
5. In addition to their ID numbers, lottery entrants are required to supply their birthdays. The birthday will be used for validation purposes only—to ensure that the student ID number has been entered correctly. If the birthday entered on the lottery form does not match the birthday on file in the student information system, the entry will not be processed. Again, this validation does not take place at the time the entry is submitted, so it is possible to successfully submit an entry that will later be discarded because the information provided does not match what is on file in the student system.
6. The lottery will be open only during the preregistration period. Students who wish to enter the lottery must do so between 8:00 am, the first day of preregistraion and 5:00 pm, the final day of preregistration. There is no advantage to entering early with the possible exception that last-minute attempts to enter may fail due to the vagaries of server connections.

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