This document includes 5 tips that will help you register online. Detailed registration instructions are also viewable on The Hub's Help service.

Tip 1: All students will register for the upcoming term via The Hub. Go to the Registrar’s homepage and click on "The Hub" icon. Log in as yourself and access the "Student" menu. Click on the Help button to review instructions for accessing informational pages. Click on “Registration” in the Help section to review web registration functionality.

Registration priority times are printed inside the cover of the Schedule of Courses (available outside the campus Post Office) and are viewable at http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/registrar/webregistration/priority/. You may also view your priority time by clicking on the “Am I Registration Ready” link in The Hub. Priority times extend from 7-11 p.m. during the initial registration week. You will be able to register and make changes to your registration from your priority time through 4:00 p.m. the last day of classes.

Tip 2: College policy dictates that you must discuss your upcoming registration with your advisor prior to registration. After doing so (and only AFTER doing so), go to The Hub, click on the “Advising Meeting Confirmation” link, read the screen text, type in the name of the faculty member with whom you met and click on Submit. You can do this before your priority time; you will not be able to register until this step has been completed. You should understand that misrepresenting yourself during this registration step is considered a student conduct violation (i.e., knowingly furnishing false information to the College with intent to deceive).

College policy also dictates that you must update or confirm your emergency contact information within 100 days of registration. Go to the “For Students” menu and click on the “Emergency Contact and Cell Phone” link in the Personal Information section to do this.

To find out whether you are cleared for registration, go to the “For Students” menu and click on the “Am I Registration Ready” link. If you’ve already done this, you should do it again—the registration holds were just entered. Here you will be able to view your priority time, your advising flag, any registration holds you need to clear before registering, and your emergency contact update status. Clear any registration holds with the appropriate department before the close of the last business day immediately preceding your priority time. Offices will not be open during evening priority times, so it is your responsibility to plan accordingly.

Tip 3: You can check available class seats any time during registration week by clicking on “Search for Sections” or “Search for Classes via ENROLL” at The Hub. The information in the printed version of the Schedule of Classes is subject to change; the web is your most up-to-date source of class-related information.

You can create your list of preferred sections prior to registration: knowing the synonym numbers for your proposed classes and using the “Express Registration” option will speed up this process; however, you must use the “Search and Register for Sections” option for variable-credit courses like comps. When it's time to register you can just use the "Register for previously selected sections" link and select your final choices. Click on the “Registration” link on The Hub to access these and other registration options.

Independent study and credit internship registration is a paper process. You will not be able to register for these credits online. Complete and submit the proper paper forms to the Registrar’s Office during normal business hours. Independent study forms (290-292 and 390-392), Biology and Chemistry research forms (394) and Physics/Astronomy Special Project forms (356)—as well as Music lessons scheduling forms and Studio Arts course application forms—are available at http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/registrar/student/registrationforms/.

Tip 4: You can waitlist classes during web registration. You can also drop yourself from a waitlist or check your waitlist number via the “Manage My Waitlist” link from The Hub. You may waitlist for a course which conflicts with a registered course. You are not allowed to waitlist for multiple sections of a course or for another section of course in which you are enrolled. To waitlist a closed lecture/zero-credit lab pair, waitlist the zero-credit lab only.

You will not be allowed to register via the web for classes that have overlapping meeting times. Decide which course is more important to you and register for it. If you think you should be allowed to also register for the conflicting course, stop by the Registrar’s Office the next business day (M-F, 8-5) to discuss your situation.

Should you have technical difficulties while using web registration, the Student Computing Information Center (X4040) will be available to help you during the 7-11 p.m. priority times. You can also register in one of the public computer labs on the first floor of CMC during that time frame; SCIC staff will be ready to assist you, as needed.

Tip 5: After you have registered, you can make changes to your registration online through 4:00 p.m. the last day of classes. You can register for open sections, drop classes, and waitlist closed sections. After all priority times have been cycled through for all classes and through the last day of classes, you can also register for “instructor permission required” courses by bringing your instructor’s permission (e.g., copy of your email for ARTS or a signed slip of paper for ASTR 113) to the Registrar’s Office during office hours, M-F. Subsequent registrations or registration changes—including adding waitlisted courses—must be completed via a paper process beginning on the first day of classes and require use of the proper registration or drop/add cards. S/Cr/NC declaration and activation remains a paper process.