Registration and Waitlists
Students register electronically and waitlists are generated when a section fills. If a seat opens, students on the waitlist are offered a space in the class in the order in which they appear on the electronic waitlist. Students often ask instructors to bypass this process and oversubscribe them. For undergraduate courses (INST 100-499), iSchool Academic Programs (ischoolfacquery@umd.edu) must approve any decision an individual faculty member makes to oversubscribe a class. Instructors should submit a ticket via the Academic Programs portal at http://tinyurl.com/iSchoolAcademicProgramsPortal in order to allow review and directions. Instructors with questions about undergraduate registration and waitlists should refer to the iSchool College Park Schedule Adjustment Guide at https://internal.ischool.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Schedule-Adjustment_-Faculty-Communication-Guide_Undergraduate-Courses.pdf. For graduate courses, (INST/INFM/LBSC 500-899) the instructor may make their own determination about admitting extra students and should notify by submitting a ticket via the Academic Programs portal at http://tinyurl.com/iSchoolAcademicProgramsPortal .
Students may occasionally request to “sit in” on a course. In accordance with University policy, the iSchool does not allow this practice. Any interested student must audit the course through the formal registration process.