Deans will only approve registration or course additions after the last day to add for truly exceptional circumstances. The first ten days of a semester and the first five days of a summer session are set aside as the Drop Period for making adjustments in a student's schedule. After that time, undergraduate students must petition to drop courses through the Dean's office of the school in which they are enrolled. After that time, both the adviser and Graduate School dean's signatures are required. Section and hour changes can be made through the registration systems until the last day to add.
Section changes only require the approval of the teaching department.
Hour changes, however, require the dean's approval. During the summer sessions, Pre-registered, Verification, and Official Class Rolls and Grade Reports are distributed. Preliminary rolls are distributed at the end of the second week of classes during the fall and spring semesters. Preliminary rolls contain the names of all students who have added the class during the add period or dropped the class since the pre-registration rolls were printed. Verification rolls are distributed at the end of the six weeks of classes during the fall and spring semesters and after two weeks during the summer sessions.