Recently Accepted Students

Our Registration Process for New Students

A professional advisor is assigned to all newly admitted students based on the major they select in Preregistration.

PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ARE LOCATED IN THE FOLLOWING OFFICES:

• Advising Center
• Health Science Student Services
• Brinson Honors College
• MAPS (Office of Mentoring and Persistence to Success)
• Suite 201 (Teacher Recruitment, Advising, and Career Support - Suite 201)

Your advisor will build a tentative first term course schedule that is based on the information you provided in Preregistration. A typical course load is 15-17 credit hours, which is 5 or 6 courses.

BEFORE YOU CAN BE REGISTERED FOR ANY CLASSES, YOU MUST:

• complete all admission requirements - track status of requirements in myWCU
• register for a New Student Orientation session

DURING YOUR ORIENTATION SESSION, YOU WILL:

• meet your professional advisor and receive your course schedule
• learn more about Liberal Studies requirements
• meet with faculty in your major department for information about program requirements and expectations
• learn how to add or drop a class

ONCE CLASSES BEGIN,

if you have declared a major:

• your major department will assign you a faculty advisor
• your faculty advisor will serve as your "primary" advisor
• your initial professional advisor will serve in a secondary advisor role

if you have not declared a major:

• your initial professional advisor will serve as your "primary" advisor

if you change or declare your major later:

• you will be assigned the professional advisor who is the liaison to your new major, and
• you will be assigned a "primary" faculty advisor in the department of your new major

THE OFFICIAL ADVISING & REGISTRATION PERIOD FOR THE NEXT TERM BEGINS SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEMESTER. 

During this period, you will:

• meet with your "primary" advisor to plan your schedule for the next term, and
• receive your Alt PIN, which is required to add/drop classes and can only be given to you by your "primary" advisor