Who is my Academic Advisor?
Please see the Office of Academic Advising's Major Advisors
page. If you have not yet chosen your major, please see the Divisional Advisors
page. If you have further questions, please contact the Office of Academic Advising
at aadv@rice.edu.
If you receive an error message telling you that you are not permitted to register at this time, please select the bottom link called Problems Registering? This will take you to the Registration Status page. This page should indicate the reason you cannot register.
The Registration Status page says everything is OK, but I still can’t register.
Send an e-mail to registrar@rice.edu, and the Office of the Registrar will help you.
What is Priority Registration?
Registration is based upon hours completed in academic history. Please consult the Academic Calendar for specific registration dates and the current semester's Registration page for the Priority Registration Schedule.
On the Register, Add/Drop page, as soon as you select “Submit Changes” and ESTHER accepts those submissions, you are registered for that class.
Look at the Status column on the right side of the screen. If your course-add was accepted, it will say **Web Registered** next to that course.
If there was an error, the course will be displayed below your registered courses. For more information on course errors, please visit the
Common Registration Errors page.
You can also view or print a copy of your schedule by choosing either of the following links from the bottom of the Registration, Add/Drop page: View Student Schedule or View Student Detail Schedule.
No. As long as you don’t have any special circumstances (such as requesting to audit a class or requesting to take a class Pass/Fail) you do not need to go to the Registrar’s Office.
CRN stands for Course Reference Number. This number helps identify the different course sections offered within a particular term.
If you plan your schedule in advance using the (paper or electronic) Schedule of Course Offerings, and if you record the CRNs for those courses you wish to take, it should take you less than 5 minutes to complete the registration process. (Barring any problems with closed courses, etc.)
ESTHER is trying to inform you of all the possibilities. Those classes that have times “to be announced,” theoretically could fit into the specified time frame.
What is the Late Registration Fee?
Currently enrolled students are required to register during the first week of Registration. After the first week, students can register for further classes or change their schedules. However, currently enrolled students who fail to register before the first-week deadline will have a Late Regsitration Fee assessed to their account by the Cashier's Office.
Please consult the Academic Calendar for specific registration deadline dates. Please see the Cashier's Office
for the fee schedule.
How can I register for a class if I have not taken the prerequisite?
In order to register for class that has prerequisites, the student will need to either take the prerequisite classes before registering, or, obtain permission from the instructor via the Special Registration Form 
.
What is a time conflict, and why is it preventing me from being able to register?
ESTHER does not allow simultaneous enrollment in classes with overlapping meeting times (such as a Monday/Wednesday/Friday 1:00-1:50 class and a Monday 1:00-4:00 class) or double-booking (registering for two classes which meet at the same time). The student must drop the conflicting class before being able to register for the other.
If a student has a legitimate reason to enroll in overlapping or double-booked classes, then the student must complete the Overlapping or Double-Booked Registration Form 
and obtain the signatures of the instructors of both classes.
Instructor permission is required to register for one or more of my courses. What should I do?
The student must complete the paper Special Registration Form (Undergraduate 
or Graduate 
) and obtain the signatures of the instructors of those classes.