Starting next week, students will be able to preregister for their fall classes via the World Wide Web, using a new system that improves academic services for students, faculty and staff. They had to use a separate publication, the MIT Bulletin, to get subject descriptions, the names of the professors, and the requirements that the subjects filled, and they had to devise some way to keep track of all their options. Then they had to fill out all this material and return it to us within three weeks, at the time of the year when they are finishing up their term work and taking exams. The HASS Guide and the physical education listings are also now online.
Students can create a hypothetical schedule while they consider different options.
This direct contact lets us do a better job helping them solve their problems. The system handles several kinds of preregistration. This feature explains the subject matter and lists the instructors, the units, the time and location, and the requirements that the subjects fill. For students preregistering for subjects in Sloan, where they have to bid for places in classes through the Sloan Prioritization System, online preregistration automatically enters them into the Sloan lottery. There are other advantages.