An unidentified malfunction in the system occurred April 15 that permitted students who were supposed to register on Thursday to select their classes on Wednesday. The error was the only reported problem during the registration period, which began April 13.

Ithaca College Registrar Brian Scholten said staff members noticed an unusually large number of students logged into the system and filled course sections.

“We have people who look at registration in the morning right when it’s starting to make sure it’s working,” he said. “When we looked closely at it, that’s when we realized students who should have been registering the next day had a chance to register.”

Students without enough corresponding credits were blocked from the system until their original assigned registration time, Scholten said. 

“Our office did not remove any of the students from the classes [they had already registered for],” he said. “It was left up to the schools and the dean’s offices to determine if they needed to take some of those students out of classes.”

Sophomore Devin Colter said he was one of the students able to log onto the system and register for his classes on Wednesday morning. Colter said his assigned registration day was Thursday. 

“[Tuesday night] I saw five or six people who are in the same grade as me with Facebook statuses saying, ‘Waking up early to register for classes,’” he said. “Because of that, I decided I better see if I can do that too because I don’t want to risk not getting into my classes.”

Colter said he heard there had been a malfunction in the system on Wednesday afternoon after he had registered. He said he continuously checked HomerConnect to see if he was still registered for his classes.

Colter said he was removed from his Advanced Cinema Production: Fiction class, a requirement for his major, when he returned from work that evening.

“I was upset, but at the same time, I can understand being in the other position and not being able to get into this class when you’re supposed to have priority,” he said. “I’m more upset that they only have one section of this class that they are requiring people to take and they are only taking 15 people this semester.”

Junior Emma Alder said her problems were associated with classes in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. For Alder’s recently added culture and communication minor, she said she is required to take Introduction to Media Aesthetics and Analysis as well as Global Flow of Information.

“If I don't get into these two courses I won't be able to fulfill the minor,” she said. “It makes me mad that when you pick up minors, nobody tells you that you’re not going to get into the requirements for the minor.”