How does the waiting list work?

In your online application you are allowed to create one main application and up to two secondary choice applications. The main application has priority. An application for entrance-free fields is not required because you can enroll for them as late as one week before the semester begins.

Admission for an entrance-restricted field within a secondary choice application can only occur when all other main application applicants have been admitted and there are still spaces available.

After the application deadline on July 15, the registration office undergoes a so-called first-round decision process during which time they only make decisions about the main applications. For additional available spaces a waiting list is collected for which all secondary choice applications are considered. So if you are not admitted during the first-round decision process, your main application will be considered again from the 1. waiting list. If this is not possible, your secondary choice applications for the course of study you mentioned there will be considered. If you are admitted here, you will not be considered for any further waiting lists. That means if you only wish to participate in the waiting list procedure for the course of study you applied for in your main application, do not make any secondary choice applications.