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After Registration Day: All Students
Checking Status of Registration

Starting on Friday, February 6, 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.

Adding and Dropping

Add Date: Friday, March 5
Drop Date: Thursday, April 22

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

To Add a Subject after Registration Day

  • Approvals: The advisor or registration officer must approve and sign the student's Add Form. 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 5 (Add Date).
The deadline for subjects beginning after Add Date, including subjects scheduled entirely in the second half of the term, is Thursday, April 22 (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 the Drop Forms.
  • Deadlines: For full-term subjects, the deadline for dropping is Thursday, April 22 (Drop Date). For subjects scheduled entirely in the first half of the term, the deadline is Friday, March 5 (Add Date). For subjects scheduled entirely in the second half of the term, the deadline is Thursday, May 13.
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 record with the notation DR. They will not appear on the student's external transcript.

To change status in a subject

To change to or from P/D/F grading under Junior-Senior P/D/F option
  • Approval: Advisors must approve and sign all forms.
  • Deadlines: Same as adding that subject.
To change listener status to credit status
  • Approvals and Deadlines: Same as adding that subject.
To change credit status to listener status
  • Approval and Deadlines: Same as dropping that subject.
To change the number of units in a “units arranged” subject, project, or thesis
  • Approval: The faculty advisor or registration officer must approve and sign all forms.
  • Deadline: End of term.


The student should personally submit the Add/Drop Form to the Student Services Center, 11-120, making sure the copy of the form is stamped with the date submitted, and should save this copy.

After the specified deadlines, requests for registration changes must be made by petition. A $40 processing fee will be charged for permitted changes.
 

Late Registration

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 6.

A petition is required to complete registration after Friday, March 5. Undergraduates must petition the Committee on Academic Performance, and graduate students, the Graduate Students Office. $100 late fee.

 

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