The HE academic advisors are happy to help you before and during registration, and it is important that you’ve also taken steps to plan and be ready for each registration period.
See the Before/During/After Registration tabs below in preparation for your advising appointments & class registration each semester.
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Summer 2023 academic Timeline
The Academic Calendar is the official listing for all the important academic events/dates each semester.
Tuition deadline: May 24th by 5pm (for classes added by then)
Need to fully drop all of your summer classes after you have paid tuition? This is called a "cancellation" or "withdrawal" (depending on when you submit the request) and requires that you email CNSinfo@austin.utexas.edu to request. To receive a full refund, you must email this request before the first class day. Include your EID and request to drop all your summer classes. Starting on the first class day, the refund amount is reduced. If you are only dropping one/some of your classes but keeping others, then you can follow the normal add/drop procedures with deadlines below.
Summer add/drop: The 2nd class day in the summer is equivalent to the "4th class day" during fall/spring, and the 4th class day is equivalent to the "12th class day". The Q drop time frame in the summer is extended, and the deadline is always the last class day of the summer session.
First, Nine-week, and Whole Session:
- June 1: First class day
- June 2: Second class day
- Last day to add a class or waitlist using the online registration system without departmental permission.
- Waitlists become inactive and no longer relevant after today.
- June 6: Fourth class day
- Last day to delete drop a class using the online registration system without it being a "Q" drop and for possible refund (if you are keeping other summer classes on your schedule). Q drops after today remain on transcript. Q drop info: See procedures here.
- This is the date the official enrollment count is taken. Last day an undergraduate student may add a class except for rare and extenuating circumstances.
- June 19: Juneteenth Holiday (no classes)
- Pass/Fail Deadline: June 22nd
- Online request details here.
- Classes changed to pass/fail will count as general elective/total hours only and can't be used to fulfill specific degree requirements (core, flags, major, minor/certificate)
- Q Drop Deadlines: The last class meeting day before finals Online request details here.
- First session: July 6th
- Nine-week session: July 25th
- Whole Session: August 11th
Second Session:
- July 10: First class day
- July 11: Second class day
- Last day to add a class or waitlist using the online registration system without departmental permission.
- Waitlists become inactive and no longer relevant after today.
- July 13: Fourth class day
- Last day to delete drop a class using the online registration system without it being a "Q" drop and possible refund (if you have other summer classes on your schedule). Q drops after today remain on transcript. Q drop info: See procedures here.
- This is the date the official enrollment count is taken. Last day an undergraduate student may add a class except for rare and extenuating circumstances.
- Pass/Fail Deadline: July 28
- Online request details here
- Classes changed to pass/fail will count as general elective/total hours only and can't be used to fulfill specific degree requirements (core, flags, major, minor/certificate)
- Q Drop Deadline: August 11
Before/During/After Registration
Please also refer to the Departmental Information pages each semester before registration for specific updates about your major & SoHE classes (ex. prerequisite updates, class time changes, common registration issues, etc.)
Before You Register
Academic advising availability:
- Summer: Advising appointments are available throughout the summer, and your advisor is available by email! There may be some weeks that your advisor is out of the office for vacation time, but email any time you have any questions.
Contacting us:
- Email your advisor directly: The best way to connect with your advisor is by email (see below for contact information). Always include your EID. Be on the lookout for emails from us related to registration deadlines and updates on advising appointment availability!
- Virtual office hours: Virtual office hours are currently pending update for summer hours, and details will be posted by the end of the week. For now, email your advisor directly or headvising@austin.utexas.edu for assistance!
spring 2024 Registration: october 30 - november 10
Preparing for registration and advising appointments:
- View Classes, Registration Times, and Bars:
- Course Schedule
- Registration Information Sheet: Will be updated in October
- Registration - Clear Registration Holds
-Check your RIS pages in October for any holds that may need to be cleared. - Review Requirements:
View the following to prepare for an advising appointment and registration. See registration instructions here.
- Interactive Degree Audit (IDA):
- View your audit at least once or twice per semester, once before & once after registration (you can select to include "future registered classes" after registration).
- See this handout, How to Run & Read an IDA, about how to create and read your Degree Audit.
- To open your Audit after creating/requesting it, click "Audit Results" on the left menu then the blue hyperlink under "Audit ID". Refresh the page if your audit is still processing.
- Be sure to note when the audit was created, and re-run often so that it's accurate.
- AP credits can take about 1 week to post to your record after paying the fee.
- Degree Checklists - list format; shows more details about course options
- Sample four-year plans - semester layout as an example.
- Health Professions Office website - professional school prereqs and course timelines
- Core Curriculum: list of approved options for Core requirements
- When searching for classes for Core requirements, use the core curriculum filter option (menu option #3) on the Course Schedule to ensure you're selecting an approved course (see screenshot here)
- If you claimed AP U.S. History credit, this gives you HIS 315L credit. Double check your Degree Audit to ensure you don't accidentally take the same class for your remaining History!
- Re-run your degree audit after registration to include "future registered courses" to ensure you're in the correct classes that will count.
- Automated Transfer Equivalency (ATE) database: To check tranferrability between Texas schools.
- Common Government questions & acceptable combinations: see details here.
- Minor/Certificate requirements
- Interactive Degree Audit (IDA):
- Review Major-Specific Updates Each:
Each semester before you register, see registration news for your major on the departmental pages below including important prereq updates, common registration issues/questions, etc.
Also see our FAQ page.
- Back-ups, Back-ups, Back-ups:
Make sure you plan for back-up courses/sections in your schedule and USE THE WAIT LISTS!- “Add to Waitlist” is the second bullet on your registration page after you've attempted to add the class. See below!
- If a class doesn't have a waitlist available, the option won't appear and you need to keep checking for availability throughout registration and add/drop.
- Selecting a SWAP class is optional, but please do if there is a time conflict or if adding the waitlisted class would put you over 17 hours.
- You can be on a maximum of 4 different wait list
- And a maximum of 2 waitlists for the same course.
- “Add to Waitlist” is the second bullet on your registration page after you've attempted to add the class. See below!
Know the lingo:
- Advising Bars – All HE students will have an advising bar. This will be cleared once you complete an advising worksheet and/or schedule an appointment with your assigned academic advisor.
- SANs – Secure Academic Notes. These SANs are sent to the official email address that you have on file. If you are not receiving these emails, you are responsible for making sure that you update email your address online. You should check your spam folder as well.
During Registration
- Check back for any important updates about registration from the HE Advising Center.
- If you find that you have issues registering for a course as a result of taking a Spring 2020 course Pass/Fail, please send us an email to headvising@austin.utexas.edu and we will create a pre-requisite waiver on your behalf.
- Select alternate classes if the classes you want are full, and check back again during add/drop.
- Use waitlists! “Add to Waitlist” is the second bullet on your registration page after you've attempted to add the class. See below!
- If a class doesn't have a waitlist available, the option won't appear and you need to keep checking for availability throughout registration and add/drop.
- Selecting a SWAP class is optional, but please do if there is a time conflict or if adding the waitlisted class would put you over 17 hours.
- You can be on a maximum of 4 different wait list
- And a maximum of 2 waitlists for the same course.
- Don’t panic! Your schedule will probably not be perfect during your first registration time, but do your best. Things tend to settle in your schedule around add-drops. As long as you have the number of hours you need and classes on your schedule, you’re going in the right direction.
