Registration Instructions and Priority Planning

Registration Guidelines
Registration Instructions Using WebAdvisor
Schedule Changes/Updates for Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Using WebAdvisor- Video Instructions
Using WebAdvisor- Instructions & Screenshots (non-video)

Contents

Dates for On-Line Registration
Appointment Times
Before you Register: General Course Selection Instructions
Planning your curriculum
Tips For Setting Priorities
Preparing to Register for Classes
When you Register:
How Does Priority On-Line Registration Work?
Wait List Sign-up:
Questions and issues Related to Registration
Out of town or for some other reason not able to register at the time of your appointment?
System Won’t Let you Register?
Time Conflicts
Division Changes
Full-time (day) Division Students - Working Hours Limitation
Professor Consent or Application Needed to Register
Prerequisites
Registration Restrictions
Responsible for Your Registration
Wait List Invitations
Externships
Underloads
Faculty Evaluation Information
Using WebAdvisor to Register
Advising Blog

Dates for On-Line Registration

• Evening-only Students* -  Sunday evening before Priority Registration begins
• Priority Class Registration Day I
• Priority Class Registration Day II
• Priority Class Registration Day III
• Wait list Sign-up begins the fourth day of registration
• Wait list Invitations (for Fall classes) begins early August

Registration will be in June for all students. Priority registration will be by appointment times over three days for all students except those who qualify for evening-only status (see definition below). To see your appointment times:

• Go to the WebAdvisor Student Menu screen,
• Click on ˜My Registration Permissions’ found below the Registration header,
• Choose the correct semester.  
  Note: You register for both fall and spring, in each of your appointments.

* Evening-only students are students who always have been and will continue to be evening division/part-time students and who will take only evening classes which start at 4pm or later.  These students must confirm their status to the Registrar’s office, lawreg@lclark.edu.  Failure to abide by the rules for evening-only status may be considered an Honor Code violation.  Evening-only students will register for all classes for fall and spring on the Sunday before priority registration begins 6-pm to midnight.  Note: There are 2 randomly assigned start times, 6:00pm and 6:15pm.  Please check WebAdvisor for your start time.

Consult the course descriptions, course schedule, and exam schedule to select classes. In addition to your interest in a class, you should consider graduation requirements, state bar subjects, and courses needed as prerequisites.  You should also include some courses that may be challenging or an entirely new subject to you. Check the three-year plan to see how often a course is offered and the division in which a course is scheduled.

Consult the advising blog to ask questions or to make an appointment to discuss your schedule with an advisor.    The academic advising blog page has been created to assist you in answering your questions either on-line or with an appointment to an advisor.  If you are interested in a particular area of law, you may wish to contact a faculty member who teaches a core course in the area that interests you.

Check the final exam schedule.  You are responsible for your own final exam schedule. If you have two exams on the same day, you will be expected to take them on the same day. The fall 2011 semester exams will be held December 5 - 16. Spring 2012 semester exams will be held April  23 - May 4.  Each semester exam period will include one Saturday pick up at 1:00pm - 1:30pm.

While there is no way to identify with certainty which courses will close, we can offer some suggestions for determining which classes you may want to consider as priority for your schedule. Remember in determining priority classes, the real key is trying to determine how many other people are going to make that class a priority.

• Consider the class size.
  Seminars are limited in range from 14 - 20 students; other classes are usually capped according to room size. Classrooms 1,2,3 and 4 are capped between 72-89; classrooms 5 and 6 are capped at 39; classrooms 7 and 8 are capped at 58.
• What is it competing with?
  Other large classes?  Required courses? Consider the number of other courses offered in the same time slot.
• Who is the instructor?
• How frequently is the course offered?
  every year? Twice a year? Every other year?
• Any other factor that you may consider relevant such as how badly you need the class to fulfill certificate or graduation requirements.

Most students get into most of the classes for which they register. You should get into your most preferred classes if you take the factors above into account. There is also registration movement during the summer and during the add/drop period for each semester.

On the fourth day of registration, you may put yourself on a wait list.  At that time, be sure to check how many are on the wait list before you add yourself.  Check again after you have added yourself to determine approximately what number you are on the wait list. The Registrar’s office will not give out wait list position information.

You are registering for both fall and spring semester. Prepare a list of classes for fall and spring in order of priority. For each class, indicate the course priority, the course number and section, the class title, the teacher and the hours of credit. Use a Course Selection Worksheet (PDF) to prepare your schedule before going on-line to select classes.

Most courses are open to all upper division students. However, some classes, such as the Clinical Internship Seminars, can only be registered for by invitation of the professor. These classes require a special procedure for registration, usually an application that must be submitted by a deadline date. Official registration will occur after the candidates have been selected by the professor. No one can register for this type of class on-line. Registration will be done through the Registrar’s office. Please check the course descriptions when registering to determine if a class has special registration qualifications.
Note: Applications that are listed as due the day of registration are due by 10:00am, Priority Registration Day I.

For courses needing applications and instructions please visit applications

If you are planning to try for Law Reviews law review, the registrar’s office will register you once you turn in a course add form during the add/drop period at the beginning of the semester. You cannot register for the classes online.

Note: Students who did not take Criminal Procedure I and/or Property during their first year must take the section marked (ud) meaning upper division. These sections are scheduled in the evening. There will be no exceptions to this policy.  It is strongly urged that you not wait until your final semester to take your required courses.

See the video guide for online registration instructions using Web Advisor

The object of priority registration is to allow students the chance to register for preferred classes, one class per semester each day.  Students are randomly assigned to a registration group at the end of the first year of law school.  You stay in the same group the rest of the time you are in law school.  Each group rotates through appointment times; each group getting a chance at some appointment time to be first, middle, or last during the 3 day registration period.

When selecting your priority classes, you should try to determine which classes are likely to close, register for those classes first, and have a second or third choice as back-up should your first choice class close. Wait lists will be available for sign-up on the fourth day of registration.

Each registration group is given an appointment time, one for each day of the assigned registration period, for a total of three appointment times.  The appointment time is different each day. Appointment times are set 20 minutes apart.

The appointment time represents the earliest time your group can start registering. You may register on that day any time after your appointment time starts.  Your start time will rotate so that groups will have an early start time, a mid start time and a late start time assigned during the registration days. The earliest start time is noon and the latest is 2:40pm.  You will be notified by email when the priority appointment times will be available to you.  When they are available, they will be on “My Registration Permissions” found on WebAdvisor. This will occur well before the priority registration days.

There are three days of priority registration.  On Priority Days I & II, each day after your appointment starts, you can register for one class for fall semester and one class for spring semester. At the end of the first day of priority registration you will have a total of one class for fall and one for spring.  At the end of the second priority day, you will have a total of two (2) classes for fall and two (2) for spring.

On Priority Day III, you will use your third appointment time to complete registration for the fall and spring semesters. From then until through September 5 you can  rearrange both your fall and spring schedules on-line by adding open classes and dropping classes from your schedule.  Spring on-line registration will resume November 8 through November 29 and again January 3 - 16.

Note:  During the Priority Registration Days I & II, the system will not check for co/pre-requisites. You will be able to add your priorities without concern for first registering for the prerequisite courses.  However, be sure to register on Priority Registration Day III for the necessary required courses.  We will be checking to be sure all students sign up for the co/pre-requisites.   The system will resume checking the prerequisites on Priority Registration Day III.

Students who qualify for evening-only status will register for all fall and spring semester classes on the Sunday before Priority Registration begins, 6:00pm or 6:15pm to midnight.  This is to assure students who are not able to take classes except in the evening, enrollment in evening classes.  The next opportunity for evening-only students to register will be Priority Day III at 6:00pm, after all the day division and non-evening-only students have registered. 

To qualify as an evening-only student, students must have entered school as an evening division student, attended all semesters as an evening student with the intent of continuing as an evening student for the 4-year program and be able to attend classes only in the evening.  Classes that begin at 4:00pm or later are considered to be evening.   Failure to abide by these standards may be considered an Honor Code violation.  

Students who meet the evening-only qualifications must request this status from the Registrar’s office each year to be assigned to the correct registration group.   Contact the registrar’s office via email, lawreg@lclark.edu. The deadline will be the Tuesday before Priority Registration begins.

Sign-up for waitlists for closed classes will start on the fourth Registration day.  To determine the policy for managing your wait lists, check the Manage My Waitlists section in the registration instructions for using Web Advisor.

Beginning in early August, wait list registration for fall semester will begin. Those first on wait lists that have openings will be notified by email that they may register for the class. Three (3) days will be given to transact your decision. It is very important that you watch your email after August 2 if you are on a wait list. See: Wait List Invitations.   Wait list invitations for spring semester will be sent starting November 8, 2011.

For all classes requiring applications or special approval, we will notify those who are granted permission to register. At that time we will request that you advise us of your decision to add. All special permission classes have to be registered by the Registrar’s office. See: Professor Consent and Application Needed to Register.

If for some reason, you will not be able to use the on-line registration procedure at your appointment time and you would like the Registrar’s office to process your registration, please contact us no later than the Thursday before Priority Registration begins, lawreg@lclark.edu. 

Problems that will cause your registration not to be processed or that can cause errors in the processing include:

• Time Conflicts - registering for two classes that overlap in time.
• Too many credits for your division load. Day Division load is capped at 17 credits; evening is capped at 12. If you want to change divisions, you must petition before registering.
• Trying to add a class that needs professor consent or an application. (Classes such as law review, CIS, or externships.  These classes have to be registered through the Registrar’s office once with professor consent is confirmed).
• Trying to add a class without the necessary pre-requisites after the Priority Days Registration.
• Trying to add a class in the wrong semester or adding the wrong class section. You are responsible for the course information that appears on your schedule on WebAdvisor.
• Missing your invitation to add a class for which you are wait listed.
• Student and Departmental Accounts Services Office holds for past tuition and fines that are overdue.
• Failure to check your schedule to be sure the class has been added or dropped correctly

Note: Students cannot withdraw for the entire semester by using the on-line registration screen and withdrawing from all classes. You must submit a written notification. You may do so by email, lawreg@lclark.edu. The date you submit your written statement is the date used for the withdrawal transaction

Students may not register for classes that have a time overlap. If you try to replace a class on your schedule with one that conflicts in time, be sure to drop the current class or the new class will not be added.  If you try to add a class that conflicts in time with a currently listed class, the new class will not be added. If you try to add classes together that conflict in time, it is possible that neither will be added. 

Division changes (Day/full-time or Evening/part-time) must be petitioned. There is an on-line electronic petition, Division Change  Please mark the appropriate line(s), indicating which semester(s) the change(s) will take effect. You may also send an email statement to Law Reg, lawreg@lclark.edu, stating you want to change division and indicate which semester the division change will take effect. The Registrar’s office will change your division within one business day of receiving the form.
Note: Once a division change has been made, you are assumed to be in that division until another petition is filed. You may indicate two division changes, one for each semester, if that is your plan.

The ABA requires that all full time students - students taking more than 12 hours in a semester, devote substantially all working hours to the study of law. Consequently, such students may not work at a job more than 20 hours per week.

All day division students must certify that they adhere to the this standard.
Anyone requesting to be a day division student is expected to know and abide by this rule.

Individual Research, Environmental Clinic: PEAC, International Environmental Law Project, Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC), Regional and National Moot Court competitions, Law Reviews, Clinical Internship Seminars, Externships and other courses that require the permission of the faculty teaching the course, require professor consent.  This can be in the form of an individual professor, as with an independent study, or it may be the permission of the curriculum committeee, as with an externship.  Law review registration requires that you add law review after the law reviews announce who has been chosen as new members.  CIS students, PEAC, IELP and SBLC clinic students, and students chosen for national moot court competitions will be able to register after the professor notifies the registrar’s office who has been chosen.  Forms for professors to give consent are available at the Law Registrar’s website or office. The registrar will accept an e-mail from the professor as consent for the student to take a course. Any class that needs professor consent will not be available for on-line registering and will only be done by the registrar’s office after the consent has been given.

Some classes require a prerequisite or co-requisite are a requirement for registration. This information is found on the course description information. During the Priority Registration Days, I & II, you may register for a class  without having the co/pre-requisite needed.  However, beginning on Priority Registration Day III  you will need to register for the pre-requisite class(es). 

After Priority Registration Day III, if you try to register for a class without the necessary prerequisite or co-requisite, you will not be allowed to add the class. Take this into consideration when registering for the year. After Priority Registration Day III, be sure to add the prerequisite class to your schedule before attempting to add the course that requires the prerequisite. Some professors will override prerequisites if you prove to him/her that you can qualify to take the class without the preliminary class. To do this, you will need the professor’s confirmation, in writing or in an email message, to override the prerequisite. All overrides of prerequisites must be done in the Registrar’s office. If you have questions about prerequisites, please contact the Registrar’s office.

Note: The Priority Registration Days, I & II, are the only times a student may add a class needing a pre or co-requisite without first having registered for the pre- or co-requisite.

If you should owe money for tuition not paid, you will not be allowed to register. Check the WebAdvisor site, My Holds and Restrictions, found under the header Academic Profile on the Student Menu. If you have a hold it will advise you if the hold restricts your ability to register. If it does, you will want to be sure to take care of the hold before registration starts so you will not lose your chance to register.

You are responsible for your registration. Check your schedule on WebAdvisor to be sure that you have the correct classes listed. If you want a printed schedule, ask the Registrar’s office. You can add and drop classes on-line through the last day indicated on the calendar for on-line registration/add-drop for either semester. After that all adds and drops must be done through the Registrar’s office. You may be held responsible for examinations if you neglect to drop a class that is erroneously listed. You will not be given credit for a class that you are attending if you are not registered

Wait lists will be maintained on WebAdvisor. You may add and/or delete your name to any wait list. Should a seat open in a class and you are first on the wait list, you will be sent an email message advising you that you may add the class. You will be given 3 days to respond. If you do not respond within that time, your name will be dropped from the wait list and the next student on the wait list will get your seat.

Wait list invitations for Fall 2011 will start being sent out early August 2011 and will continue being sent through September 5. Wait list invitations for Spring 2012 will be sent from November 8 through November 29 and again January 3 through 13. Mark your calendar if you are on a wait list and check your email every other day during the wait list invitation period.

Important:   Clean up your wait lists to assure that you are not listed for classes that you do not want.  This will keep the overall wait lists comprised of those who want the class.

If you have been approved for a Fall 2011 externship, your registration will be done by the Registrar’s office using the information on your Supplemental Registration form to confirm the correct externship and professor.

If you hope to do a Spring 2012 externship, register for course selections you plan to take if the externship is not approved by the curriculum committee. In the event the externship is granted, the course selections will be dropped and the externship added through the Registar’s office.

Anyone approved for an externship or interested in applying should see the course description Externship Classroom Component for information about the classroom components for the externship and an explanation for how and when to register.

Note: 
If you are thinking about doing an externship in the future, note that significant advance planning is required for externships. Talk to the Associate Dean of Career Services if you think you may be interested in one.  Applications for Spring 2012 externships will be due in October 2011. Please refer to the Career Services web site or to What’s What for detailed information on externship requirements. Application packets are available at the Career Services office.

Full-time (day) division student registering for 12 or 13 hours and part-time (evening) students registering for 8 hours must petition to underload. Once your schedule is set and it is determined that you will carry an underload, please submit a petition to the Registrar’s office. Full-time (day) division students normally take 14 - 17 hours per semester with the maximum being 17 credits. Part-time (evening) division students take between 9 and 12 credits per semester, with the maximum being 12 credits.
There are no overloads for either division.

Faculty evaluations are available for student review. The numerical summaries for each question for each faculty member are on the Registrar’s web site, Faculty and Course Evaluations. You will find the faculty evaluation sheets with comments on them at the dean’s office.

Web Advisor Video Instructions

Take a look at the video instructions for using WebAdvisor to register online.  You will find the video on the Registrar’s web page detailing the registration instructions.  For complete information regarding the registration instructions for on-line registration on WebAdvisor see the webpage,

To make an appointment with an advisor, to see the faculty curriculum planning guides, or to ask a question, go to the online advising blog.