Course Add, Drop, Swap, or Withdrawal Form

This form should be filled out by a student, their advisor, faculty, TA, or course/department admin in order to request a course add, drop, swap, or withdrawal.

Unless marked urgent, the withdrawals administrator will process requests in the order in which they are received. In order to mark a request urgent and have it be processed as such, it MUST be justified. If it's not truly urgent, it will not be processed urgently. However, your request will be effective retroactive tothe date of your request, so--unless it's an urgent course add or swap--there's often no need to worry about how long it takes to be processed.

NOTE TO STUDENTS: If you're filling out this form in order to add a course(s)--and nothing else--you're advisor can--and should--do this for you. If you request a course add through this form, we will need to reach out to your advisor for approval anyway. If however you don't know who your advisor is, don't think you've been assigned one, or can't reach them, please feel free use this form to add courses. Late summer course regsitration is an exception to the above (see more about this exception in "NOT TO STUDENT'S AND ADVISORS" below.

NOTE TO ADVISORS: Use this form ONLY when needed. In almost all cases, you will be able to ADD courses to your student's schedule through the Faculty portal whether their courses for the term in question are official or unofficial; You SHOULD do this yourself whenever possible (the Regsitrar's office receives a high volume of requests per day. Any of your own that requests that you yourself can fulfill, should be indeed be fulfilled by you). If courses are unofficial, you are ALWAYS able to drop them yourselves. If they're official, you will need to use this form. If you need to swap courses, you can choose to either use this form or do the drop and/or add yourself based on the student's official/unofficial term registration status, using this form only for the part of the swap you cannot do yourself. Keep in mind, any registration you make to your students' schedules yourself, i.e. not through this form, should be communicated to Financial Aid if the net result of the changes affects the students charges/aid for the term in question.

NOTE TO STUDENTS AND ADVISORS: If a student is trying to register for summer courses AFTER the summer course registration deadline, they'll need to get approval from Financial Aid. If/when they get this approval, either the student or their advisor should fill out this form to request the student's summer course registration, so the registrar's office can process your request. Advisors are NOT able to change summer course registration after the summer course registration deadline.

Any questions or concerns? Email withdrawals@miu.edu.

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