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Sophomore Exploratory Option

From Registration Day through Add Date, sophomores may designate one subject as Exploratory in each of their fall and spring semesters.

An Exploratory subject is one in which the student may either accept the grade awarded or change the subject to Listener status. No action is needed to retain the grade and units.

Sophomores may designate any subject as Exploratory, including an Institute or departmental requirement or a cross-registered subject taken at another school.

Two deadlines have been established specifically for Exploratory subjects. Sophomores may:

• Designate subjects as Exploratory through Add Date (the deadline for adding a subject).
• Change Exploratory subjects from credit to Listener through Registration Day of their next semester at MIT.

Students receive no credit for Listener subjects, and Listener subjects do not appear on students' transcripts (external record).

The regular deadlines for adding and dropping subjects and for changing from Listener to credit remain in effect.

Once the student's advisor has approved the registration selections for the term, changes must be made by submitting Add/Drop/Change Forms by the deadlines below.

Add Date: Friday, March 8
Drop Date: Thursday, April 25

ACTION	Deadline
Designate a subject as Exploratory.	Add Date
Switch the Exploratory designation between subjects.	Add Date
Add a subject to your registration that you want to designate as Exploratory.	Add Date
Remove the Exploratory designation from a subject and remain registered for the subject.	Add Date
Drop an Exploratory subject from your registration.	Drop Date
Change an Exploratory subject from Listener to credit.	Add Date
Change an Exploratory subject from credit to Listener.	Registration Day of Your Next Semester

 

Exceptions to the Registration deadline are allowed in the following cases:

• A student who does not register for the following semester, including a student on study abroad/domestic study away or a leave of absence, has until the Registration Day of his or her next semester (fall or spring) at MIT.
• A student who receives an O/OX or I in the subject has until the Registration Day of his or her next semester (fall or spring) after the final grade is posted.