Dear Student,
In the interest of fairness both to my students and myself, as well as to protect my registered students from an overcrowded classroom -- I have chosen to use the existing CSUS registration priority system to determine class enrollment. Registration opportunities are handled via the online CSUS registration site and are assigned in the following order:

1. students with disabilities
2. students in retention programs
3. graduating seniors
4. seniors
5. freshmen
6. classified and credential graduates
7. juniors
8. sophomores
9. second bachelors graduates
10. other unclassified graduates

Only a relatively few of my students are classified as having a disability or are in retention programs. Thus, graduating seniors will get into classes they need by planning properly, registering as early as possible, and taking advantage of the existing priority registration system. The system has been carefully designed to provide the maximum amount of fairness for all considered while maximizing overall student retention.

Now, if circumstance has conspired against you and unseen forces have thwarted your every valiant attempt at competent scheduling and you are not able to get into a specific class you might want to consider a few options.

You could consider taking the course during the Summer.

Sometimes students feel like they "must" take a certain course during a certain semester. That usually isn't true. It is quite common for seniors to "walk across the graduation stage" in the Fall or Spring and then "finish up" a course or two the next semester to complete the "paperwork." Thus a student can usually pseudo graduate and then take ASL 2 during winter intersession or during the summer.
(Check with the graduation office for confirmation before trying that though.)

You could try taking the course at one of the nearby community colleges and transfer it back to CSUS.
If needed, you could put off graduation and take the course next semester.

If none of those ideas work for you, and you really, really need to take a certain course -- you might have to get wildly creative. For example, perhaps you could fly to Washington D.C. and take the course you need during Gallaudet University's summer program and transfer it back to CSUS? See: http://summer.gallaudet.edu. Tell your parents that you really have to take a trip to D.C. so you can graduate and you need them to pay your airfare and hotel. Who knows? They might go for it. If so, send me pictures.

In any case, don't try to crash my course. I don't like to have to break student's hearts in front of other students. If you are dead set on trying to crash a course, try it on one of the evening instructor's. They are generally more willing to take adds.

Best wishes.

Cordially,
Dr. Vicars

p.s. More discussion: Even if there was one seat listed online due to a non-payment drop, my classes would still be over-full because the administration has insisted we bump up our initial enrollments (due to the budget crunch) for each course. Realistically, since it is a visual topic, I need to be able to seat the students in a semicircle so that they can see each other. Many of our classrooms are literally at the point where even one more student DOES impact visibility and makes it considerably harder and more uncomfortable for the instructor and the other students.