Registering for Fall

• Meetings with Advisors / Registration Officers
• Turning in Signed Registration Forms
• Freshmen
• Special Students
• Registration Holds
• Maintaining Your Address Information
• Suppressing Directory Information

All students (except incoming freshmen and Special Students) meet on Registration Day, Tuesday, September 2, with their advisors/registration officers to discuss Fall Term subject selection and complete Registration Forms.

Meetings with Advisors/Registration Officers

Prior to Registration Day, advisors receive students' Registration Forms printed with the subjects selected during pre-registration. The results of subject lotteries appear on the forms, except for Sloan waitlist positions and section information which do not appear.

New graduate and transfer students do not pre-register for their first term; their subject selections should be written in.

The student and advisor make any additions (except for lotteried subjects) or deletions to the student's subject selection directly on the form.

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.

A lotteried subject can only be added with an Add/Drop/Change form. Students should go to the first meeting of the class with an Add/Drop/Change form and have it signed by the instructor; the student's advisor must also sign the form.

HASS-D classes written in on the registration form will not be processed. Students who want to add a HASS-D subject should consult the list of open classes (HASS-D subjects that still have openings after the lottery) and register for the class with an Add/Drop/Change form signed by the instructor and advisor.

Students who are cross-registering at Harvard, MassArt, SMFA, or Wellesley should follow the special procedures.

Students take the white and yellow copies of the Registration Form to the ice rink in Johnson Athletic Center, between 9 am and 5 pm on Registration Day, Tuesday, September 2 (unless the student's department has made special arrangements). There both copies are stamped, and students should retain the stamped yellow copies.

Students who want to check section listings or revise their class schedules can get assistance from Registrar's Office staff at Johnson.

Students who want to turn in their signed Registration Forms prior to or after Registration Day should submit them to the Student Services Center, 11-120.

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, September 5.

Special Students in Professional Education Programs, the System Design and Management Program, Sloan Visiting Fellows, and SPURS should contact the program headquarters regarding registration procedures.

All other Special Students should have received an admittance letter from the MIT Admissions Office listing the subjects which they have been approved to take.

Each Special Student should take a copy of the admittance letter to the Student Services Center, 11-120, no sooner than a week after receiving the letter and no later than the first week of classes, to provide address and biographic information and obtain financial clearance.