<p>In the student center, it says, "You may begin enrolling for the Fall 2010 Regular Academic Session session on August 24, 2010."</p>
<p>i already pre-enrolled in classes a while ago. i'm guessing that it wasn't official since it was called the PRE-enrollment period. The instructions for add/drop and pre-enrolling are essentially the same: Cornell</a> University Registrar: Enrollment, which is confusing me greatly.</p>
<p>Questions:
1. Did pre-enrollment reserve the classes i chose for me?
2. how do I "offically" enroll in classes?
3. what further steps do i need to take on August 24?
4. Do I need to wake up early for spots on August 24 too?
5. what happens when we meet our advisors? do they just look over our requests and approve them?</p>
Unless you are contacted by someone from some department about your enrollment in a class, you will be automatically enrolled after doing the pre-enrollment.
Check if you are still enrolled in all the classes you pre-enrolled.
<p>by “Not necessarily, but most of the times: YES”, do you mean that sometimes students don’t get the classes they pre-enrolled in because they don’t fulfill the requirements or do you mean that by some bad fluke of the system/classes got too full, they get kicked out of the classes they want?</p>
<p>so to clarify, the schedule in the Student Center on Aug 24 (without me doing anything) will be my official schedule of classes i go to on Aug 25 unless i add/drop something?</p>
It depends on what class it is. For example, if you are planning to take a communication class, they would have a priority on who can enroll in the class (based on which college you are from and whether you are a junior or senior, etc). Another thing that could happen is that somehow a class that wasn’t planned to be offered in that semester was up on the website, and they finally realized it and took it down. Or there weren’t a lot of people registering for the class, so they cancel the class, but you’ll always be informed whenever they change something.</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused… On the Student Center, it says:
“Drop - Delete Record: 08/09/2010 A class dropped on or before this date will be deleted from your academic record.”</p>
<p>After that, drops would be recorded.</p>
<p>Does that mean that I can drop classes right now?</p>
<p>Also, what’s the difference between drop and cancel?</p>
<p>Pre-enrollment and add/drop are the same thing, though incoming freshmen are sometimes automatically added to certain classes before arriving on campus.</p>
<p>You only have to wake up early for classes that are in high demand (i.e. general reqs) or if your particular course selection doesn’t allow for many different schedules.</p>
<p>swuster, are you saying that i have to re-enroll during add/drop period? is pre-enrollment only a freshman thing or something?.. i don’t understand the purpose of the add/drop period. how long does it last?</p>
<p>pre-enrollment and add/drop are not the same thing.</p>
<p>add/drop is for corrections to the schedule you made during pre-enrollment. Pre-enrollment is done at the end of the semester for the following semester (i.e. in winter to enroll for classes in the spring).</p>
<p>Add/drop happens during the first few weeks of courses, and allows you to add new classes or drop classes you are already in. In general, you won’t want to add a course past the first week of classes. Drop deadlines are available online. You can drop before a certain date and it won’t show on your transcript at all. You can also drop by a later date that will show on your transcript that you W (withdrew).</p>
Nothing to worry.</p>