After Registration Day: All Students

• Checking Status of Registration
• Adding and Dropping Subjects
• Late Registration
• Maintaining Address and Emergency Contact Information

Starting on Friday, February 8, students can view their official subject registrations on WebSIS.

Students are responsible for reviewing their registration carefully and promptly correcting any discrepancies by contacting the Registrar's Office, records@mit.edu, 5-119.

If students make subsequent changes to their registration during the term, they should recheck it on WebSIS.

Add Date: Friday, March 7
Drop Date: Thursday, April 24

After the student has turned in the signed Registration Form, changes in subject registration must be made by submitting Add/Drop/Change Forms by these deadlines.

Add/Drop/Change Forms are available at the Student Services Center, 11-120, or the Registrar's Office, 5-119.

Procedures and deadlines for Sophomore Exploratory Subjects.
 

To Add a Subject after Registration Day

• Approvals: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all Add Forms. After the first week of the term, the instructor must also approve and sign Add Forms. For lotteried subjects, all Add Forms must be approved and signed by both the instructor and the advisor.
• Deadlines: For full-term subjects and subjects scheduled entirely in the first half of the term, the deadline for adding is Friday, March 7 (Add Date).
• The deadline for subjects beginning after Add Date, including subjects scheduled entirely in the second half of the term, is Thursday, April 24 (Drop Date). For other subjects, such as UROP, thesis, and individual study, the instructor's signature certifies that instruction in that subject began approximately at the time of approval.

To Drop a Subject after Registration Day

• Approvals: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all Drop Forms.
• Deadlines: For full-term subjects, the deadline for dropping is Thursday, April 24 (Drop Date). For subjects scheduled entirely in the first half of the term, the deadline is Friday, March 7 (Add Date). For subjects scheduled entirely in the second half of the term, the deadline is Thursday, May 15.

Undergraduates registered for fewer than 36 units (not including Listener or ROTC subjects) are considered to be less than full-time. Read how registration load affects financial aid, loan deferments, compliance with immigration regulations, eligibility for varsity athletics, and external health insurance.

Students should drop unattended subjects as early as possible. There may be a tuition advantage. In addition, no record is kept of subjects dropped before Add Date (including those with an earlier cancellation date). If they are dropped after Add Date, they will appear on the student's internal grade report with the notation DR. Dropped subjects do not appear on the student's transcript.

To Change Status in a Registered Subject

To change to or from P/D/F grading under Junior-Senior P/D/F option

• Approval: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all forms.
• Deadline: Add Date.

To change listener status to credit status

• Approval: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all forms.
• Deadline: Add Date.

To change credit status to listener status

• Approval: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all forms.
• Deadline: Drop Date.

To change the number of units in a “units arranged” subject, project, or thesis

• Approval: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all forms.
• Deadline: End of term.

Students who did not register by Registration Day must:

Meet with their advisors /registration officers, who will sign their Registration Forms.

Take the white and yellow copies of their Registration Forms to the Student Services Center, 11-120, promptly after Registration Day to complete registration.

There is a $40 late fee if the signed white copy of the Registration Form is not on file in the Student Services Center by the end of the first week of the term, Friday, February 8.

A petition is required to complete registration after Friday, March 7. Undergraduates must petition the Committee on Academic Performance, and graduate students, the Graduate Students Office. $100 late fee.