Spring 2025 Bidding Results

November 25, 2024

Bidding Results for Spring 2025 Courses

The bidding results for Spring 2025 courses are now posted on YLS:Courses (after logging in, click "My Cart" then “Bid Results” at the top of the page).

This email includes: 

• Confirming and Declining places

• Waiting Lists

• Changes to the Spring 2025 Curriculum

• Additional Reminders

Confirming or Declining Courses

By December 11, please confirm or decline places in courses with late drop policies. You should take appropriate action as indicated by December 11 if you do not want a course to appear on your transcript. All courses to which you were accepted will be moved to the Hub in mid-December and will appear on your transcript as in-progress work.

To confirm or decline places in courses you were accepted into or to decline your place on a waiting list, click "Confirm" or "Decline" radio button and "Submit" on your Bid Results page on YLS:Courses. 

If you are awaiting enrollment by Registrar in an open enrollment course that did not have an enrollment cap, or in a course that does not have a waiting list, it is because adding that course would have taken your schedule above the maximum of 20 units. You will be able to add the course once you have declined something else by writing to registrar.law@yale.edu by December 11 or by adding the course during add/drop. Please do not write to the instructor asking to be added to the course.

If you were denied a place in a limited, permission, or experiential course, the instructor either decided to close the waiting list or chose not to have a waiting list.

First-day attendance is often required to hold your place in a restricted enrollment class or on a waiting list. You would be wise to assume attendance is required.

If you have questions about using YLS:Courses to see your bidding results, email registrar.law@yale.edu.
 

Waiting Lists

If you are on a waiting list that is described as unnumbered, it means that the instructor uses individual criteria to determine who gets offers as places open or is waiting until add/drop to make additional offers; the instructor will notify the Registrar’s Office to whom offers should be made; there is no reason for you to contact the instructor directly.

If you are on a waiting list where a number is displayed next to your bid result, that number reflects your position on the waiting list. You will receive offers by email as places open. As offers are made, your position on the waiting list will move up and the number displayed will reflect that change.

Offers to students on waiting lists will be sent by email. You will have 24 hours to accept or decline the offer. If you do not respond within 24 hours, your offer will expire and you will be removed from the waiting list. Please monitor your email for these offers between now and December 10; we will not send offers out during the exam period; we will resume making offers after the exam period, continuing through the add/drop period.

Please be considerate of each other and decline places in which you have been accepted or remove yourself from a waiting list if you are no longer interested so that offers may go out to others.
 

Changes to the Spring Curriculum

• Lowenstein Clinic & Advanced Lowenstein Clinic: meeting time changed. 

• Workplace Theory and Policy Workshop: updated course description.

New Courses:

• Humanity in the Line of Fire – Protecting Civilians in Today’s Armed Conflicts/Du Pasquier

• National Security Policy Process/Kaplan

Canceled Courses: 

• Antitrust: Directed Research/Priest

• Labor, Migration, and Climate Justice Lab: Policies for a Changing World/Ahmad

• The Great Consolidation of American Business/Priest 

Interested students should add themselves to the waiting list on YLS:Courses or add the course on the Hub during add/drop.
 

Additional Reminders

• The deadline for reading group proposals is December 6. 

• In mid-December all courses to which you were accepted (including those you have not confirmed) will be moved to the Hub and you will have access to the Canvas sites. Spring 2025 courses will then appear on your transcript as in-progress work.

• The Term Data Update will open for spring in early January. You must clear all holds and complete the Term Data Update in order to access add/drop on the Hub. 

• Please wait to submit spring 2025 forms, including Supervised Research forms, until January 6. 

As always, if you have any questions please email registrar.law@yale.edu or stop by SLB 102. 

Good luck with your exams and final papers!