It’s almost time to register for the fall! To help prepare, check out this registration guide.
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When to Register
Early Registration
Current first year students will get to register during early registration as well as during their regular registration day. Early registration for Fall 2021 will be on Friday, April 16th @ 9AM-11:59PM EST.
Regular Registration
If you are not a current first year, the day that you register depends on how many credit hours you have earned.
| April 19
9 AM |
Monday | 90 or more credits earned
(use your transcript to find your total credits) |
| April 20
9 AM |
Tuesday | 70 or more credits earned
(use your transcript to find your total credits) |
| April 21
9 AM |
Wednesday | 50 or more credits earned
(use your transcript to find your total credits) |
| April 22
9 AM |
Thursday | 30 or more credits earned
(use your transcript to find your total credits) |
| April 23
9 AM |
Friday | 0 or more credits earned
(use your transcript to find your total credits) |
| General Registration | ||
| Apr 26 | Monday | Waitlists open at 9 am
First day to submit RTF-EZ |
For more information, please visit the Registrar’s website: https://registrar.gwu.edu/fall-spring-schedule.
If you’re not sure what day you register, you can check your earned credit hours in GWeb using the following path: Student Records & Registration Menu > Student Records Information Menu > Transcripts > View Unofficial Transcripts. Make sure you’re looking at overall hours earned for the accurate total!
Upper Level Honors courses
*CROSS-LISTS:
Remember that if an Honors course is cross-listed, you can sign up for any open section unless specified otherwise on the Schedule of Classes. If you register for a non-Honors section, please complete and submit an Honors Course Petition form (on the Forms & Documents page of our website) so that it counts toward an Honors requirement.
*DOUBLE COUNTS:
Additionally, if an Honors course counts toward a major/minor/concentration requirement and you’d like it applied to your Degree Map, please complete and submit an Honors Course Petition form (on the Forms & Documents page on our website). To confirm if a course has been approved to fulfill a particular major/minor requirement, you will need to review the course description on the Honors program website.
*COURSE SUBSTITUTION OPTION (NEW PILOT PROGRAM):
For the first time, we are giving students the option to request to substitute a non-Honors course for an upper-level Honors course. For students that can demonstrate that they will benefit personally and intellectually from a non-Honors upper-level course, they may be granted an exception to count it toward the UHP upper-level course requirements (Self & Society or Arts & Humanities). To learn more about what courses may be approved and how the substitution request process works, please carefully review the Upper-level Course Substitution Request page on our website. If you have questions, please contact Brianna or Ben.
Please note that the UHP is piloting this formal course substitution policy (and procedure) for the Fall 2021/Spring 2022 academic year.
Waitlists
If an Honors course closes during registration week, we cannot overenroll it and students must wait until the waitlists become available and add themselves to the list.
Waitlists generally become available the Monday after registration week, the same day as general registration, or the “add/drop”period, opens. (Please check the registration schedule for the specific date and time.) Once waitlists become available, students must add themselves through GWeb. Students cannot get instructor permission to bypass an active waitlist.
If you are a graduating senior, please note that per the Registrar’s office website, waitlists prioritize seniors, then juniors. The Honors program follows the same guidelines. Please reach out to Ben or Brianna if you have questions.
Please note that waitlists are generally cleared on the Friday of the first week of classes (the specific date is also listed on the registration schedule); after that, registration opens without waitlists and students can request instructor permission to be enrolled in a class. If an instructor grants permission, the instructor must send Brianna or Ben an email. RTF and RTF-EZs are not required.
More on waitlists here.
Hold Information
Check your record via GWeb regarding holds prior to your scheduled registration time. Any hold on your account will prevent access to registration. You can view any holds on your account by looking at: Student Records & Registration Menu > Student Records Information Menu > View Administrative Holds.
Make sure to check now and again in the days leading up to registration. Check early, and check often! More on holds here.
Fall Registration Advising
All Honors students are encouraged to see a Program Manager before registration. Make sure you are prepared with a tentative course schedule using the Fall 2021 Schedule of Classes and Honors course descriptions when they become available. As new course information and revisions become available, we will update the website. Please re-check the information on the Schedule of Classes and the Honors site before you register to ensure that you’re up-to-date!
Unfortunately we won’t be able to meet in person for advising events and meetings, but please feel free to make a virtual appointment with us online: honorsprogram.gwu.edu/make-appointment. When scheduling, please consider how much time you may need. 15-minute appointments are best for quick questions, whereas 30-minutes are best for discussions on four-year-plans and registration planning.
If you are a current first year student and have not yet signed up for the final round of mandatory small group advising meetings, please sign up here.
As always, your peer advisors are also a wonderful resource if you have questions about specific courses, professors, or anything you’d like advice on!
