Registrar's Office

North College
237 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
registrar@wesleyan.edu
1-860-685-2810

 

PRE-REGISTRATION: IMPORTANT TIPS FOR STUDENTS

You can access the Pre-Registration system from anywhere you can access WesPortal. During pre-registration your schedule will have a maximum of four full credit classes, and any number of partial credit classes. Private music lessons do not count towards the full credit limit. Your credit limit cannot be raised until drop/add.

 

PLANNING

  • During Planning you should set up your plan, which is a ranked list of your course choices.
  • Your faculty advisor must finalize your plan via WesPortal.

SCHEDULING

  • The Pre-Registration system will schedule students into courses based on class standing, major preference, seat availability, the number of times you have previously requested the course and, when appropriate, whether you have met the pre-requisites or have the permission of the instructor.
  • The Pre-Registration system will attempt to schedule you into each of your seven ranked choices three times.
  • You can preview your preliminary schedule after Scheduling is run.
  • You will be assigned a date and time when the adjustment period will open for you.

ADJUSTMENT

  • The adjustment period will open in a staggered order, based on the number of courses you have in your preliminary schedule and your class year.
  • Once the adjustment period opens for you:
    • You can add courses that still have seats available;
    • You can delete courses which you no longer wish to take;
    • You can submit ranked enrollment requests for drop/add;
    • You can adjust the grading mode, crosslisting, and GenEd designation of a course when there are is more than one option.
  • Your advisor must electronically approve changes you make to your preliminary schedule.
  • Adjustment will end for all students at 5pm on the last day.

IMPORTANT STRATEGIES FOR PLANNING PERIOD:

  • Do not assign a course to your first rank if it has zero seats set aside for your class year/major. The scheduling program will not consider it. These courses are identified in WesMaps with “0” in the seat designation.
  • Do not add courses which exclude your class year/major. The system does not allow this.  Class year/major exclusions are identified in WesMaps with an “X” in the seat designation.
  • Do not rank the same course and section twice, it will not increase your chance of being scheduled in the course.
  • Do not forget to select the section(s) of a course you rank. Click “Section” and identify sections you would like the scheduling program to consider. You can choose one, multiple, or any section.
  • You can rank courses which have overlapping meeting times in your plan. The pre-registration program will not, however, schedule you into two courses with time conflicts.
  • You can finalize your plan with pending requests; since the instructor action will update the student request.
  • POI/PreReq approvals can be done completely electronically; however, the instructor may request additional information via email or through a face to face meeting.