Drop/Add

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Spring 2023 Drop/Add opens at 8:30am on Thursday, January 19 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, February 8. Be sure to review the guidelines about drop/add below, check out the Registrar’s website for more details, and utilize the Video Guide to Drop/Add for a guided demo of the system from a student’s perspective.

Please note you will not be able to take action until 8:30am on Thursday when the system opens.

STUDENTS

  • You must enroll in the University to participate in Drop/Add.   
    • Click on the alert box in WesPortal, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the “Enroll Me” button. 
    • Please do so even if you have holds.
    • You can follow-up with the holds after you’ve enrolled.
  • All course enrollments require instructor approval. 
  • Students who submit enrollment requests are not guaranteed a seat in the requested class.

INSTRUCTORS

  • You will be able to start approving enrollment requests via your Course Management tool in WesPortal.

ADVISORS

  • You can approve advisees’ course enrollments via WesPortal.

DROP/ADD REQUEST LIMIT

  • In addition to the ranked drop/add requests submitted during pre-registration, students can submit a max of six unranked course requests. (Students can submit multiple sections of one course.)
  • Once a student reaches the limit of six, the “Add to My Courses” button no longer appears for courses in Drop/Add. An outstanding request will need to be canceled to submit an additional request.

SCHEDULE CONFIRMATION

  • Students can confirm their schedules during the drop/add period. 
  • Once a schedule is confirmed, no additional requests can be submitted and courses cannot be dropped. 
  • If additional changes are required, a student can un-confirm their schedule.
  • For Instructors, in course management, students who have confirmed their schedules will be marked as such and can no longer be added to the class list.   
    • The student would need to un-confirm their schedule to allow you to accept them into the class.
  • For more details about a confirmed schedule, visit our drop/add page.

POLICY OF THE EPC ON THE FIRST CLASS MEETING

  • Per EPC: “unless registered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class (in writing, by email or in person), the instructor can drop a student from his/her class list.”

Please let me know if you have any questions about the drop/add system.

Sincerely,
Karri Van Blarcom
Senior Associate Registrar
Wesleyan University
kvanblarcom@wesleyan.edu
860/685-3684