Registrar's Office

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

The Office of the Registrar will be closed between Monday, December 23 through Wednesday, January 1 for the winter break.

Drop/Add Process  

Students must first click the "Enroll Me" button in their WesPortal before they will be permitted to participate in drop/add.

Important Drop/Add Resources:

Drop/Add Basics

  • Refer to the Academic Calendar for the drop/add dates each semester.
  • Students may enroll in up to 4.0 full-credit courses (courses 1.0 credit or higher), excluding tutorials and private music lessons.
    • Partial-credit courses (courses less than 1.0 credit) do not count towards the credit limit.
    • If a student wants to take more than 4.00 full-credit courses, they may ask their advisor for approval, which if approved, must be increased by the advisor via the drop/add system.
  • An e-mail notification system informs students, faculty and advisors of daily drop/add activity. 
  • The ranked drop/add requests which students made during pre-registration will appear in the drop/add system and are used by instructors to admit students to courses.
  • Students may also make unranked drop/add requests once drop/add opens (see below for more details.)
  • Instructors determine who may be admitted to the course, meaning all enrollments require instructor approval.
  • Instructors may drop students who do not attend the first class meeting.
  • Advisors can approve individual drops and adds.
  • Permission of Instructor and Pre-requisite Override requests are NOT available during drop/add, as all requests require instructor approval.
  • Crosslistings and GenEd Designations must be chosen by the end of drop/add.
    • When a 2nd/4th Quarter course has multiple general educational area assignments (NSM, SBS, HA), a student must select one general education area assignment during the five working days following the first class meeting by submitting an academic schedule change form via WesPortal.
  • Student forums are processed outside of the drop/add system.
  • Teaching Apprentice (TA) Tutorials are processed outside of the drop/add system.

Drop/Add Request Limit to Unranked Requests

  • In addition to the ranked drop/add requests submitted during pre-registration, students are be able to 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 as early as the first day of drop/add.
  • Changes made via drop/add will reflect in a student's class schedule in WesPortal the day after a change is made.

For Students

  • Students can confirm their schedules during the drop/add period. 
    • Once a schedule is confirmed:
      • no additional requests can be submitted,
      • any pending requests can no longer be approved by the professors, and
      • enrolled courses cannot be dropped.
    • If additional changes are required, a student can un-confirm their schedule.
    • These changes are dynamic.
  • If a student has reached the maximum number of drop/add requests and/or has confirmed their schedule, the student can still:
    • submit tutorial requests
    • cancel requests
    • change crosslisting
    • change grading mode
    • change GenEd designation
  • Consider deleting any pending enrollment requests so that you no longer appear in the instructor's enrollment request list.

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.
    • You are welcome to email them to see if they are still interested in the class. If they are, they can un-confirm their schedule so that you can add them to the class.

Other Resources

Post-Drop/Add

Grading mode changes for student option courses

All other changes

  • Changes made on the last day of drop/add, will not appear on the Class Schedule until the next day.
    • Students should wait for the overnight refresh to occur before confirming the accuracy of their schedules and/or submitting any late change requests.
  • Any other post-drop/add changes must be made via the Academic Change form options via a student's class schedule.
  • These links will not be available until drop/add closes.

Please direct inquiries concerning drop/add to the Registrar's Office.