Registration Procedures

Registration is conducted in exclusive groups in order of class priority:

4th year evening
3rd year full-time and part-time day
3rd year evening
2nd year evening
2nd year full-time and part-time day
1st year evening
1st year full-time and part-time day

Each group will have two days to register; no other group will register during those two days.  After the 3rd year evening student registration days, 4th year evening, 3rd year day and 3rd year evening students will have two days to make schedule adjustments.  2nd year evening students and 2nd year day students will then have two days each to register.  The first-come first-served waitlists will be reviewed, and the general drop/add period will follow.  Registration will begin on the designated days at 7:00 a.m.

All upper-class required, core and advanced civil procedure courses are labeled as FCFS (first-come-first-served) with a limit of 90, except for Constitutional Law II.  The day sections of Constitutional Law II will each have a limit of one-third of the second-year day class.  Since each group of students will have a prioritized opportunity to register themselves, there will be no day or evening restrictions placed on first-come first-served (FCFS) courses except for Constitutional Law II.  Day sections of Constitutional Law II will be restricted to day students and the evening section will be restricted to evening students.  In addition, all courses with limited enrollment are offered on a first-come first-served basis.  These courses are also designated with a notation of “FCFS”.  If demand for a FCFS course exceeds the limit, a waitlist limited to half the number of the maximum enrollment will be available (i.e. for courses with a limit of 90, the waitlist will hold 45 students; if the limit is 20, the waitlist will hold 10 students, etc.).  Students will not be permitted to register for more than 18 credits without written approval from the Senior Assistant Dean for Students.

All FCFS waitlists will be reviewed after the 2nd year students finish registering.  If space permits, students who have actually registered themselves for one section of a FCFS and then waitlisted themselves for another section of the same course will be given the section for which they waitlisted themselves.  They will be dropped from the other section for which they were registered.  Time conflicts will be overridden by the Registrar’s Office in order to do so.  It is the student’s responsibility to check the WEB immediately after the waitlist review to make sure their final schedule does not contain time conflicts.  Upon completion of the FCFS review, students who did not get the FCFS course they wanted may then check for openings on the web throughout the drop/add period.

ONCE THE FCFS REVIEW PROCESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED, ALL WAITLISTS WILL BE ELIMINATED.  It is recommended you check the web regularly if you are interested in registering for a closed course, since seats may open up as students adjust their schedules during the drop/add period.  Any openings in these courses will be filled via the web on a first-come first-served basis.  Once any open seats are filled, the course automatically closes again until additional students drop.  This process will continue until the add/drop period ends on January 20, 2009.

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