All Students Specific regulations are given below for undergraduate and graduate students. The following apply to all students. Dropping or adding courses is done via Rensselaer's Web registration system.
Detailed instructions are available in the class hour schedule.
Responsibility for dropping or adding courses prior to the deadline, rests entirely with the student. Failure to fulfill the responsibility because of an oversight, ignorance, or possibility of low grades is not sufficient grounds to petition for permission to drop or add a course after the deadline. It is the policy of the Institute that no petitions for the retroactive dropping or adding of a course except under extenuating circumstances beyond the student's control. No credit will be given for a course in which the student is not properly registered. A student may change sections of a course any time during the first two weeks of the semester.