Adding/dropping courses

Full-term courses

You may use the Student Information System (SIS) to add or drop courses. Generally speaking, from the beginning of the semester, you will have two weeks to add courses and eight weeks to drop them. Please refer to the Academic Calendar for specific add and drop deadline dates.

If you wish to petition to add or drop classes after the published deadline, you may do so using a Late Add/Drop Form. Please note that after the instructors signature (if required), the form must also be approved by either the Advising and Learning Assistance Center (for undergraduates) or the Graduate School (for graduate students). The locations of these offices is included on the form.

  • If you receive approval to drop a course after the deadline, you will receive a grade of "W" in the course.
  • If you do not attend a class for which you have registered, or fail to unoffically notify the instructor, this does not constitute dropping a course, and you will receive an Administrative "F" ("FA") grade.
Click here for additional detailed information on Late Drop Policy and Procedures

Half-term Courses

Rensselaer's course listing includes some seven-week (half term) courses, and you may register for these on-line using the Student Information System (SIS). For these courses, you have one week to add and three weeks to drop from the start of the particular class.

Reminders

  1. Fall 2009 Final Exam Schedule
  2. GRADUATING DECEMBER 2009?
    Review your graduation checklist
  3. NOV 9 - 23
    Registration for Spring 2010 for currently enrolled students
  4. NOV 24
    Last day for Undergraduates to
    ADD or REMOVE
    Pass/No credit designation
  5. NOV 24
    Thanksgiving Recess begins after last class
  6. NOV 30
    Classes Resume
  7. NOV 30
    Master's theses & engineering projects due to advisors.
  8. DEC 4
    Last day to defend doctoral dissertations
  9. DEC 11
    Master's Theses due to the Graduate School
  10. DEC 11
    Classes End after last evening class
  11. DEC 14
    Add/Drop reopens for Spring 2010

    Summer 2010 registration begins for all currently enrolled students
  12. DEC 14-15
    No Classes. Study/Review Days
  13. DEC 16-22
    Final Examinations
  14. DEC 18
    Doctoral dissertations due to Graduate School
  15. DEC 23
    Winter Recess Begins

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