Registration Information

• BIO/BCH/NEU courses only.
• This is NOT a guarantee of enrollment, and the student will ONLY be added to the unique number if an opening is available. Priority will be given to graduating seniors.
• Requests are processed on a first-come-first-served basis

Timeline:

• 1st – 6th class days:

  • Add and drop courses online that are indicated as “open” or “open; reserved” in the current course schedule.
  • Deadline for late add requests ends on the 6th class day at 5 pm

• 7th - 12th class days:

  • Requests for late adds must be approved by professor of the course prior to requesting to be added.
  • Students can drop courses online without a Q-drop.

Process:

• Students must email their assigned Biosciences advisor (found here)
• Students without an assigned advisor must email biology@austin.utexas.edu

Subject: Late Add Request

Body of Email:

• Full Name
• UT EID
• Course Name
• Course Unique Number
• Expected Graduation Semester
• Requested course cannot be added if there is a time conflict with another course.
• Requested course cannot be added if it put student over the maximum hours.
• Students must meet required prerequisite(s) for requested course
• Students may indicate a course be dropped contingent upon the late add.
• Students wishing to take over 17 hours must have approval processed prior to completing form.

Priority will be given as follows:

• BIO/BCH/NEU students requiring the course for graduation in the current semester
• BIO/BCH/NEU students requiring the course for graduation in the next semester
• Any CNS student graduating the current semester or the next semester
• Non-degree seeking students
• Students enrolled in the course requesting to switch sections
• Note: Dropping a course to be considered for the late add process may result in the disqualification from late add process.

Students may add Chemistry courses for which they meet prereqs on the 1st through 6th class day, assuming seat availability.  Waitlists are active through 5 pm on the 6th class day (not every Chemistry course may use the waitlist system).

Beginning the 7th class day through the 12th class day, a student who wishes to add a General or Organic Chemistry course should contact Chemistry Student Services. 

Not all courses will be available for a possible late add after the 6th class day.

For Chemistry registration questions, contact Robin Gray with Chemistry Student Services by emailing css@cm.utexas.edu, calling 512-232-6113, or visiting WEL 3.238A (in-person Monday through Wednesday only). Office hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, only available by email on Thursday and Friday.

The Computer Science & SDS advising office will be open and advisors will be doing drop-ins from Wednesday, August 25 through Thursday, September 4. Drop-ins will be 9 am to 11 am with your assigned advisor in GDC 2.702.

Advisors will be as timely as possible in answering emails, which is usually the best form of communication during this time. If there is a time-sensitive or emergency situation, the advisor will work with the student on a course of action. 

Because students may add through the 6th class day, some instructors may not participate in the late add process. Late adds have always been up to instructor discretion. Late adds will stop on the 8th class day, Thursday, September 4, no matter what. 

If students want to late add multiple C S courses or different sections, they will need to fill out a new survey for every request. Students may not access the survey before 8 am on the 7th class day.        

The survey can be found on our C S Forms page.

The survey will automatically time-stamp each submission. We will manually add students on a first-come, first-served basis if space is available in a course. You will be contacted via email if you were able to be added to a course. Please do not contact us to inquire about your position in line, as we will not be able to give that information. 

Please keep in mind that the late add process does not guarantee a seat in the course; it is another opportunity for students to potentially be added if a seat becomes available. 

Note this is only the C S course policy. To add other department courses, you will have to contact those departments. 

Late Add Procedures Starting the first day of classes

Contact email: headvising@austin.utexas.edu

Public Health (PBH):

• PBH 317 Intro to Public Health (open to all students): Students can only add themselves to an open course through the 6th class day by 5 pm.
• Upper division PBH Electives: Courses marked as “open; reserved” are restricted to Public Health majors only. Courses marked as “open” are open to all majors. Students can potentially add up to the 8th class day with professor permission. Email briana.denham@austin.utexas.edu first to ask about the possibility of late adding.
• PBH 354, 356, 358D, 334, and 338: Restricted to Public Health majors only.
   

Nutrition (NTR)

• NTR 306 Fundamentals of Nutrition:
  • Students can add themselves to open sections & waitlists using the online registration system through the 6th class day only by 5 pm. Late adds after this date are not allowed except in extenuating circumstances (e.g., international student situation). Email us at headvising@austin.utexas.edu.
• Other NTR classes: Best contact is jill.lawler@austin.utexas.edu
  • If seats are available, professor permission is required. Must meet all required prereqs. Adds after the 8th class day are discouraged.
  • Forward professor permission email to Jill.

Human Development & Family Sciences (HDF)

Contact: tyler.finley@austin.utexas.edu

• 7th class day through 10th class day: will add a student if they get permission from the professor by email. Students should forward the permission email, EID, and unique #s to tyler.finley@austin.utexas.edu
   
• 11th class day through 12th class day before 5 pm: Students will only be added to classes in extenuating circumstances and will still need professor permission. If they absolutely need a class to graduate, we will try to be accommodating. Students can email tyler.finley@austin.utexas.edu directly to talk about their situation. Please do not email us if you have another course option and this is just a preferred course.

Textiles & Apparel (TXA)

Contact: Angela.patterson@austin.utexas.edu

• Students can add themselves to open classes & waitlists using the online registration system through the 6^th class day only by 5 pm. No late adds will be allowed after this date.

The MPA Advising Website provides more information.

• Students who want to get into a math course should get on one or two waitlists.
  • Waitlists are active through the 4th class day
• If you are graduating this semester and must have a specific math course, you can contact your Academic Advisor. We will work with you and your advisor to get the classes you need to graduate.
• On the 5th and 6th class days, if you would like to late add a course please complete the following:
  • Send an email to mpaadv@austin.utexas.eduto set up a Zoom meeting with an Academic Advisor. The Advisor will check 3 things:
  • Is a seat available?
  • Do you have the required prerequisite?
  • Have you registered in the course 2 or more times and, if so, has the Academic Advisor approved a repeat appeal?
• If these things check out, the Advisor will add you to the course.
  • You should then check in with their professor to discuss what you have missed, what is expected of you, and how you can catch up.
• From the 7th & 8th class days, you can only be added to courses for which professors allow adds at that point.
  • Some professors may require that they give their consent before they can be added.
    • If the professor gives consent the process will be the same as listed above for the 5th – 6th class days.
    • If appropriate, we will email the professor to get consent. Once we receive a return reply to the email from the professor, we will check to make sure the seat is still available. If it is, the student will be added.

• Instructor Late-Add Policy by Course TBD (Check website noted above)

  • No Lates = no late adds permitted
  • Late W/PERM = Will allow late adds with permission
  • Late W/O PERM = Will allow late adds without permission
     

  From the 9th - 12th class days, there will be no late adds allowed.

Late-Add Procedures for Physics and Physical Sciences Classes

• Late adds for Physics and Physical Science classes during the 5th – 12th class days will be done by emailing the PHY department.
• For all PS and PHY courses, if a class says “open” on the course schedule, send the unique number to UGaffairs@physics.utexas.edu and ask to be placed in it.  Do not contact the instructor directly.

Please note: All PHY 102M/N, 103M/N, and 117M/N Labs have been replaced by a single series: PHY 105M/N. To streamline course availability, students will be able to take PHY 105M/N to pair with one of the following lower-division physics sequences - PHY 302K/L, PHY 317K/L, or PHY 303K/L - in order to fulfill degree or pre-health requirements.
 

Late-Add Procedures for Astronomy Classes

• Late Add procedures for Astronomy classes during the 7th -12th class days are as follows:
  • Please contact the instructor for permission via e-mail and then forward that permission to Ty Holloman (studentinfo@astro.as.utexas.edu)
  • Students can be added if there is room in the course. 

Please note:  Late adds will not be allowed for AST 376R.  

SDS will be hosting drop-in hours on the first class day, August 25th. These will occur at the following times:

• August 25, 8 am – 10:45 am in the Bayes Conference Room (donuts!)
• August 25, 12:30 – 1:45 in the Bayes Conference Room (cookies!)
• August 25, 3:45 – 5:00 in the Bayes Conference Room (cookies!)

The Bayes Conference room is in the back of the SDS Undergraduate Space on the seventh floor of the GDC.

Please feel free to stop by if you have any advising-related SDS questions.