{"id":3520,"date":"2015-08-05T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/?page_id=3520"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:30:18","slug":"priority-registration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/current-students\/accommodations\/priority-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Priority Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Accommodation information<\/h2>\n<p><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Priority Registration<\/b>\u00a0is an accommodation that gives eligible\u00a0undergraduate, graduate and professional\u00a0students access to register for courses on the earliest possible date.<\/p>\n<p>Current\/continuing students approved for priority registration are able to register for courses on the first day of Period I registration. New\/incoming students approved for this accommodation will not be able to register before their Advising &amp; Orientation session, but will have priority registration activated for them in the following quarters.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep in mind, the priority registration accommodation does not exempt the student from other course registration restrictions such as prerequisites, membership in the department\/program, class enrollment limits, primary campus assignment, and other major restrictions. Please see the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/registrar.washington.edu\/register\/periods\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">registrar\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more information about programs that must register in specific periods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Student Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<h3>Undergraduate student tasks<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Know your registration date. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exact registration date for a given quarter can be looked up on your registration card in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.uw.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyUW<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/calendar.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academic Calendar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can check your personal registration start date in MyUW a week before Period I Registration begins. If you have been approved for a priority registration accommodation by DRS and are not seeing this date reflected in MyUW, contact your DRS Access Coordinator via the AC Connect Form in myDRS as soon as possible to troubleshoot the issue. <\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Current\/continuing students<\/strong><\/em> approved for priority registration are able to register for courses on the first day of Period I registration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>New\/incoming students<\/strong><\/em> approved for this accommodation will not be able to register before their Advising &amp; Orientation session but will have priority registration activated for them in the following quarters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a current\/continuing student, <\/span><b>register for classes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through MyUW on the first day of the Period 1 registration window, following the standard steps.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a current\/continuing student and you are unable to register for classes on the first day of Period 1 registration, contact your DRS Access Coordinator via the AC Connect Form in myDRS as soon as possible to troubleshoot the issue.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Graduate student tasks<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Know the registration process for your department.\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some programs register students while others have students register themselves.\u00a0 If your program registers you, this accommodation may require you to notify the department of your accommodation by sharing their DRS Student Eligibility Letter and asking them to register you for the section you need.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>For self-registering programs, know your registration date. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exact registration date for a given quarter can be looked up on your registration card in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.uw.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyUW<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/calendar.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academic Calendar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current\/continuing students approved for priority registration are able to register for courses on the first day of Period I registration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New\/incoming <\/span><b>graduate students<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will not be able to register prior to the general registration period for graduate\/professional students their first quarter but will have priority registration activated for them in the following quarters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a current\/continuing student, <\/span><b>register for classes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through MyUW on the first day of the Period 1 registration window, following the standard steps.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>DRS Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once this accommodation is approved, DRS shares priority registration access in the university system so that the student can register for courses on the earliest possible date.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If issues arise, work with other units to determine and resolve relevant barriers (Financial Aid, Registrar, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<p>The following resources can help students approved for Priority Registration determine their registration date(s) and understand how to register for classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/calendar.html\">Academic Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/addpolicy.html\">Explanation of Registration Periods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/\">Explanation of UW Registration Process<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/reg\/regprocess.html\">Course Registration Instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/current-students\/mydrs-student-guide\/\">Link to myDRS Student Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Updated 1\/2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accommodation information Priority Registration\u00a0is an accommodation that gives eligible\u00a0undergraduate, graduate and professional\u00a0students access to register for courses on the earliest possible date. Current\/continuing students approved for priority registration are able to register for courses on the first day of Period I registration. New\/incoming students approved for this accommodation will not be able to register before&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/current-students\/accommodations\/priority-registration\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":920,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3520\/revisions\/7051"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}