I doubt it. At least when I was there, it was first come first serve, which to me is really no better or worse than a lottery.
Its probably alot easier to do so in a law school with 800 people in a couple of dozen classes, vs 30,000 in hundreds of classes.
And heres why.
lets say I register for class A in the lottery system. Its full. But I have to wait until this lottery occurs to move on. Now I register for another class. But thats full too. So another lottery. Now me, or someone else is out, and another lottery. And on and on. Even if you had some kind of automatic loterry and notification system, it could takes days or weeks to sort out everyones schedule.
On the other hand, the first-come first-serve system means that servers are going to crash under the weight of early registrants (I'm told, and I gather from this board, that crashes do , and so really the race will go to whomever is lucky enough to sign up when the servers have not crashed. That doesn't seem like a very
In the first come first serve system, you know immediately whther the class is full and move on to plan B (in fact if you are prepared you have plan B in place for classes that you think might be full.) That might be a different instance of the same class, or a different class altogether.
And as I said, you can always backdoor your way in if you really need to. Worst case, you wait until the class starts and people drop it and you jump in then.
Basically, its a matter of scale. It works in a small school setting where most students are locked into most of their classes anyway (my understanding is that the first year or two of law school is basically the same for everyone, is that not the case?) Whereas at RU undergrad, its rare that two students, even in the same major and class and campus have the exact same schedule.
Knight_Light - sometimes thats true, sometimes not. It would be interesting to see in fact what the correlation is between being long term small donations and big donations. Im guessing its high, but not as high as you think.