Registration Information for Continuing Students

• In both registration rounds, the order of registration starts with seniors and ends with first-years. To help first-year secure seats in certain classes, the Registrar’s Office created temporary first-year sections for many courses. You will see these sections directly under the original course in WebAdvisor, and the title will include the letters “FY”:

  

• Students who started at the college in fall 2025 should register for the “FY” section of a course if there is one (for example, Hist 121-FY01).

• However , the regular section of a courses has no restrictions preventing students who started in fall 2025 from registering for them so long as the student has met the courses prerequisites (such as a certain math or language placement, or other prerequisite). This means that in either round of registration, if a course with a “FY” section is full, students who started at the college in fall 2025 can register for the regular section so long as there is an open seat.

Registration Holds

Prior to registration, make sure that you do not have any holds or restrictions on your account (from Student Accounts, Student Rights & Responsibilities, or other offices on campus) that prevent you from registering. You will not be able to register until you have both authorization to register and have cleared any holds or restrictions with the appropriate office.

Students should consult My Holds and Authorizations in WebAdvisor for this information.

Things to keep in mind before you register for classes:

• Consent to register: All students need permission from an Advisor to register for classes, and should meet with their Faculty Advisor during the pre-registration advising period for this.
• Registration times: Your registration days based on the cohort year you entered LC. Registration starts at 7am. Each student’s registration days and times are listed under Registration Permissions in WebAdvisor.
• Authorizations: If you are interested in a course but have not met the prerequisite or are otherwise restricted for some reason from registering for it, email the Professor of the course (listed in WebAdvisor) to discuss authorization to enroll in the course. If granted, you can register for the course so long as there is an opens seat. If an instructor is not listed in WebAdvisor (“Staff”), you may email the chair of the department the course is in for advice. (See “Troubleshooting” below if you have issues registering for a class you believe you have been given authorization to enroll in.)
• Class standing and course restrictions: Students with sufficient transfer credits and/or advanced standing credits may register for courses which do not align with their cohort year. For example, a first-year student with 29 or more credits has Sophomore class standing and can therefore register for courses that require Sophomore standing. The Class Standing section of the College Catalog provides further detail.

After registration opens:

• If you missed Round 1: Sign up for all courses in the second round.
• If you missed Round 2: Enroll in all classes between November 21, 2025 and January 15, 2026.

Notes about waitlists:

• Don’t rely on them: Students should always waitlist for courses they cannot register for outright but are eager to take (if a new section of the course is opened, for example, students on the waitlist are offered spots in the new section first). However, do not depend on the waitlist: you should register for an alternative class instead of relying on only the possibility of a seat.
• Round 1: If a course you wanted to register for as your priority class is closed when your registration window opens, add yourself to the waitlist first, then register for an another, open course. You may add yourself to more than one waitlist. Once you have registered for a course in Round 1, you cannot add yourself to any waitlists in this round.
• Round 2: Once this round is open, you may add yourself to the waitlist for any class that is listed as “closed” in WebAdvisor (meaning there are no open seats in the course, but also no students on a waitlist yet) or already has a waitlist.
• Irregular issues: If you would like to waitlist for another section of a course for which you are already registered, or waitlist yourself for lab or conference sections, contact the Registrar’s Office directly at reg@lclark.edu
• Check email: When a space becomes available in a waitlisted course, the first student on the list will be emailed and will have 48 hours to register for that class. After that, the permission to register will expire and the seat will be offered to the next student on the waitlist. Waitlists are processed until mid-January, so be sure to check your email frequently.
• If you don’t get a spot off the waitlist: If you do not get into a class before the semester begins, you may email the course instructor and ask their advice. You may also attend the first class. There is no guarantee that there will be space, or that the instructor will allow you to join the class, however.

Authorization Troubleshooting:

• For Students: If a professor tells you that they have authorized you to add their class but you are having trouble registering for it, email the professor of the course and the Registrar’s Office (reg@lclark.edu) together, and they’ll be able to help.
• For Faculty: You must grant authorization for a student to register for an open seat during add/drop to allow them to enroll in your course. You may also request for section cap increase to increase your class size during the the add/drop period in order to accommodate additional students. Students cannot register if there is not an open seat - even if you provide authorization. Please consult the Registrar Office’s add/drop information for Faculty and contact them directly at reg@lclark.edu for further help.