Course bidding points: where should they go?
Some schools run registration as a bidding system instead of first-come, first-served: you get a fixed pool of points each term and spread them across the courses you want, and seats go to the highest bids. How you split the pool decides what you get. Enter your points and a priority weight for each course, and this tool builds the bid table for you.
You can split the pool in proportion to your weights or evenly across every course. Bids have to be whole points, so the fractions from a proportional split are handed out one point at a time starting with the largest remainder, and a check line shows whether the bids add up to exactly the points you hold. Add a per-course cap and any course that would exceed it is held at the cap, with the freed points redivided among the rest.
If you have last term's clearing prices, enter them per course to see the margin on each bid. Clearing prices move with what other students bid, so this page does not predict whether a bid wins a seat; it only shows the gap against the numbers you typed. Point pools and caps differ by school, so take the values from your own registration notice.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no single right answer. Giving a must-have course a high weight concentrates your points there, while the even split spreads them across every course. Use the two methods side by side to compare the trade-off.
Yes. If every course is held at the per-course cap there is nowhere left to bid, so points are left over. The leftover is shown on its own line, and the check line confirms that bids plus leftover equal the points you hold.
No. Clearing prices shift every term with the pool of applicants, so this page makes no prediction about seats. It only reports the gap between your bid and the price you entered, as a surplus or a shortfall.