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Beginning Fall Quarter 2021, students joining the Letters & Science Honors and Engineering Honors programs will no longer enjoy priority registration, a longtime fixture of the honors program that granted students early access to course registration.Â
New UCSB students entering honors programs will not have priority registration starting this fall.
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Several UC Santa Barbara administrators announced the decision in an email to students on Monday, in which they described the priority registration benefits of honors programs as creating âan unintended problem in the context of access to classes.âÂ
â[Students from minoritized groups] and first-generation students have, on average, much less access to the classes they need,â the email stated. âPriority registration is often what makes the difference between getting into a class or not, and even sometimes being able to register in 12 units of