Registration Procedures

The registration period for Semester I, 2008 is April 14-18 .  The registration form can be downloaded here, or picked up in your department or in the GSAS office in Thomas.  As in the past, ALL registration forms must be submitted to the student's department chair or graduate advisor for approval before the GSAS can accept them as evidence of registration.   Your chair can forward your approved form to the GSAS electronically, or it can be presented to the GSAS on paper with the requisite signatures. Please note that some chairs or advisors may require students to register in person for courses and USWs.  It is every student's responsibility to ascertain the policy of her or his department in this respect.

Students who are registering for fewer than two units who wish to be certified Full-Time for Loan Deferral or other purposes should complete the Declaration of Full-Time Study and return it to the GSAS Office by September 19, 2008 for Fall 2008 and February 6, 2009 for Spring 2009.  Note that the form must be signed by the chair before it is submitted to the GSAS.

Registration period for Semester II 2009 (Nov. 10-14).  After November 16th, changing registration requires the filing of a Drop/Add form signed by the Department Chair or Graduate Advisor.  The deadline for filing Drop/Add requests is February 6, 2009.  No changes at all may be made after that date.

Remember that no registration for independent work (USW) can be accepted without the written approval of the faculty member designated as supervisor of the work. This approval can be forwarded by the chair or graduate advisor electronically if this is the department's preferred procedure.  Otherwise, the necessary signature(s) must appear on the paper registration form.

Please note the following important regulations:
(1) No student's registration can be finally approved if s/he has an outstanding balance with the comptroller.
(2) Continuing students who fail to register will be given a default registration of one unit, for which they will have to pay ($5,090).

There are four categories of registration: Course, Audit, Unit of Supervised Work (701), and Continuing Enrollment.

• Units of Supervised Work USWs are for students who are actively and regularly consulting with a professor and/or using laboratory facilities, and doing work which merits credit and an evaluation by a professor.  The fee for each USW is one-sixth of a tuition unit ($815).  One registers for a USW just as for a seminar.

• Continuing Enrollment (CE) is for students working towards a degree without formal faculty supervision. CE gives half-time status.  Registration for CE does not carry credit, nor does it result in a grade or an evaluation by a professor.   The fee for CE is $415 per semester.

All graduate students wishing to maintain their matriculated status must register for one or more units of work or for Continuing Enrollment.  The GSAS no longer has the category "NR" (for Not Registered). Students who do not register will be automatically registered for one (1) unit, as described above.

Students will be billed for registrations in excess of the number of units awarded as financial aid.

Instructions for Bryn Mawr Students taking courses at the University of Pennsylvania• You must present a letter from the professor teaching the course you wish to take at Penn (written on letterhead or e-mailed to lrmiller@brynmawr.edu) to the GSAS office at Bryn Mawr granting you permission to take the course.

• The Graduate School Office at Bryn Mawr will provide you with a letter of permission to register at Penn.

• Mail or hand-carry your letter to the following address:

University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street
Suite 322A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
215-898-7577

• This is also where you register for the course.  If you have not registered at Penn before, you must register there in person.

• You will receive a bill in the mail from Penn.  Bring this bill to Mrs. Miller in the Graduate Office, who will help take care of it.  Do not ignore the bill.

• To obtain your grade, you must request a copy of your transcript from the University of Pennsylvania Registrar's Office:

Registrar's Office
University of Pennsylvania
3451 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104If you change or drop your Penn course, be sure to drop it at both schools.

BE SURE TO REGISTER AT BOTH SCHOOLS!