Pre-registration instructions and deadlines for Fall 2008
Forgotten your password for StudentAccess+?
Go to the Office of the University Registrar (Ground floor, White-Gravenor) with a picture I.D. to have it reset.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Log on to Student Access+. Check for any registration blocks, and see the appropriate office to clear the block. Check your email address and academic program information. With the exception of undeclared students, all students in the College have faculty advisors.
Students with declared majors: check the name of your faculty advisor in StudentAccess+. You will need to meet with him or her during the preregistration period. If any of your academic program information is incorrect, it may affect your registration. Report corrections to your Dean's Office immediately (ICC 303 for first-years & sophomores; WGR 108 for juniors & seniors).
Review your Degree Audit, which is the statement of your degree requirements based on your current academic program. Read the audit carefully and address questions to the Dean's Office. Use this audit as a guide in planning your schedule. If you believe there is an error, please use the email prompt at the bottom of the audit to query the Dean's Office. Every effort will be made to reply promptly--check your email account for a response.
Pre-registration instructions from the Office of the University Registrar and the Schedule of Classes are available on line. The online Schedule of Classes is updated throughout preregistration, and has the most current information about instructors, class meeting times, new courses, and course cancellations.
Wednesday, April 2 through Wednesday April 9, 2008
Declared majors must meet with their Faculty Advisors. (Undeclared students skip this step). You are urged to see your advisor in the first week. At this meeting, you will discuss your academic goals, including your intended schedule of classes (and alternates). After this meeting, your advisor will use FacultyAccess+ to approve your schedule on-line.
Submit your course requests via the web using Student Access+. Consult the instructions from the Registrar for more information.
Remember to pick a full set of alternates to maximize your chances of securing a complete schedule. All students are urged to file requests early. When you have finalized your request, email a copy to yourself or print it out for your personal records, and release the request for review and approval. If you have requested a course which requires the permission of the instructor, StudentAccess+ will generate a Permission of Instructor form. Fill out the form, obtain the required signature, and return it to your Dean's Office.
Check your Georgetown email account regularly. The deans will review student requests online throughout the preregistration period. Should we have questions, or want you to make changes to your schedule, we will contact you by email. You may also check on the approval status (both advisor and deans' approval) of your preregistration request through StudentAccess+.
Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 9 a.m. is the deadline for submitting your schedule request and for turning in any "Permission of Instructor" forms (if required)
Friday, April 25, 2008: Preregistration results are available online through Student Access+.
Once you have received your preregistration results, you should check your degree audit again to confirm that your course choices are fulfilling requirements as expected. If you have any questions about your requirements after checking your audit, contact your dean.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 and Wednesday, April 30, 2008 are for registration completion and electronic waitlisting.
If you received an incomplete schedule, just cleared a registration block, or were advised by your dean to make schedule changes, you may adjust your schedule on these days (according to a schedule set by the Registrar's Office) in person at the Registrar's Office or via StudentAccess+. Consult the Registrar's Office web site for detailed information on registration completion. During this period, you may also put yourself on waitlists for closed courses by logging into StudentAccess+. If space opens up in a course with a waitlist, a "lottery" will be run to determine who has won a space in the course.
If you win the lottery, you will receive an email from the Registrar's Office instructing you to claim your space through StudentAccess+ within 24 hours. If you fail to do so, you will be dropped from the waitlist. For this reason, you must check your email often during this period. Absolutely no priority will be given to students who fail to claim their spaces.
Waitlist priorities are determined by graduation date, major, and the date you put yourself on the waitlist. Though you cannot view your place on the waitlist, you can see how many students are on the waitlist by clicking on "available seating information". If a course has "N/A" under the Waitlist column, the course does not have an electronic waitlist. Visit the Registrar's web site for more information on electronic waitlisting.
Fall classes begin on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Monday classes will meet on Wednesday, August 27.
