All new students will register for classes at their Advising and Registration session. The onboarding process continues with Orientation.
New Transfer Student Registration – Spring 2025
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New transfer students will enroll at their Advising & Registration session date. This date is selected during the next steps in the admission process. Please plan to attend both your Advising & Registration session and Orientation.
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Send your transcripts!
- Submitting your college transcripts and any AP or IB test scores will ensure a successful registration experience!
- The transcript deadline is October 25, 2024. If you have course work in progress for Fall 2024, you still need to meet this deadline. Please be sure to send another transcript after fall grades post so we can update your record at CSUCI.
- Having your college transfer credit posted to your record is a critical step so you may meet pre-requisites for CSUCI courses and to accurately reflect your student level (e.g. junior).
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Review your Student Success Tools
- Once your transfer credit is posted to your record at CSUCI, you may use various Student Success Tools such as your Transfer Credit Report, CI Academic Requirements Report (CARR), and Degree Planner (go.csuci.edu/gradtools).
- These online tools allow you to review completed coursework and graduation requirements, generate a pathway to complete your degree, and help you generate your semester schedule.
Attend your Advising & Registration session
- Academic Advisors will provide guidance on selecting your first semester courses during your Advising & Registration session and through an online course in CI Learn (Canvas).
- Spring 2025 Advising & Registration sessions are split by major and are scheduled for December 16, 17, and 18. View more details about Advising & Registration on the Orientation website.
New Transfer Student Registration – Fall 2025
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New transfer students will enroll at their Advising & Registration session date. This date is selected during the next steps in the admission process. Please plan to attend both your Advising & Registration session and Orientation.
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Send your transcripts!
- Submitting your college transcripts and any AP or IB test scores will ensure a successful registration experience!
- The preliminary transcript deadline is March 14, 2025. Sending official college transcripts by this deadline guarantees that your transfer credit will be evaluated and posted to your record at CSUCI before you attend your Advising & Registration session and register for classes.
- Having your college transfer credit posted to your record is a critical step so you may meet pre-requisites for CSUCI courses and to accurately reflect your student level (e.g. junior).
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Review your Student Success Tools
- Once your transfer credit is posted to your record at CSUCI, you may use various Student Success Tools such as your Transfer Credit Report, CI Academic Requirements Report (CARR), and Degree Planner (go.csuci.edu/gradtools).
- These online tools allow you to review completed coursework and graduation requirements, generate a pathway to complete your degree, and help you generate your semester schedule.
Attend your Advising & Registration session
- Academic Advisors will provide guidance on selecting your first semester courses during your Advising & Registration session and through an online course in CI Learn (Canvas).
- Fall 2025 Advising & Registration sessions are split by major and are scheduled for May, June, and July. View more details about Advising & Registration on theOrientation website.
New First Year Student Registration – Fall 2025
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New first year students will enroll at their Advising & Registration session date. This date is selected during the next steps in the admission process. Please plan to attend both your Advising & Registration session and Orientation.
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- CSUCI will pre-select courses for first-year students to enroll into for the fall semester during their Advising & Registration session through a guided registration process.
- For most students, at least two (2) of your courses will be part of a learning community. Learning communities are cohorts of students in the same classes with a common theme and support provided by embedded peer mentors.
- First year students should anticipate enrolling in a Math/Quantitative Reasoning course and an English composition course during their first academic year. You may be guided into one or both of these requirements during your first semester.
- In May, you will receive a Joining the Pod survey regarding your first semester enrollment preferences. We will use your survey responses to help us pre-select the courses and potential learning community.
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Did you complete college level coursework during high school?
- If yes, send us your college transcripts and any AP or IB test scores (if available)! Academic Advisors want to ensure that you do not register for courses you may have already completed with transfer credit. Also, courses you completed at the community college or via test credit will be needed to meet pre-requisites for courses at CSUCI.
- The preliminary transcript deadline is March 14, 2025. Sending official college transcripts by this deadline guarantees that your transfer credit will be evaluated and posted to your record at CSUCI before you attend your Advising & Registration session and register for classes.
Learn about first year enrollment requirements before taking the Joining the Pod survey.
- The Fall 2025 Joining the Pod survey will be available by mid-May and must be completed by the end of May (deadline coming soon). Students will receive their invitation to take the survey after signing up for an Advising & Registration session.
- Consider your options for first year writing. CSUCI uses Directed Self-Placement because it is up to you which path you choose. Review your options on the Composition Program webpage. You will be asked to select your first year writing option on the Joining the Pod survey.
- Become familiar with the types of Learning Communities offered at CSUCI. You will be asked to rank your preferred Learning Communities on the Joining the Pod survey.
Learn more about Guided Registration.
- More details can be found on our Guided Registration Frequently Asked Questions webpage.
I'm Enrolled. Now What?
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- After your Advising & Registration session, you can use Drop-In Advising for additional assistance with your schedule.
- Graduate students should contact their program director for advising.
- Tutorials on how to add, drop, swap and waitlist a course are on the web at go.csuci.edu/RRTutorials.
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- The Registrar’s Office or professors will not drop you from classes should you elect to no longer attend.
- If you do not intend to enroll at CSUCI as planned, it is your responsibility to drop your classes by published deadlines.
- It is also your responsibility to notify other departments of your decision to not enroll as planned (e.g. Financial Aid, Housing, etc.) and take care of any obligations. You are advised to notify these departments as soon as possible if you will not attend CSUCI to reduce charges associated with late cancellation.
- If you chose not to attend CSUCI in your first term, you will need to go through the application process for a future term and may be required to meet additional admission requirements.
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- Add/Drop period | Week 1: During the first week of the semester, you may continue to add open classes online (green on the class schedule) without a permission number (a permission number is required for closed and waitlisted classes or those requiring instructor consent). You may also drop classes without permission and no W grade.
- Add/Drop period | Weeks 2 & 3: Adding courses online is available and will require you to obtain a permission number from the instructor. Please note that adding during this time is at the instructor’s discretion. Students may continue to drop during this time without permission and no W grade.
- The Add/Drop period ends at 12 Noon at the end of week 3.
- Check out our Add and Drop Procedures web page for information on schedule changes later in the semester: go.csuci.edu/AddDrop.
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- CSUCI tries to provide enough classes for students to achieve their degree. Some classes have more demand than others. Students should be prepared to have multiple options in the event classes or preferred sections are full.