Early Registration

The system will notify you of any holds you have incurred. You must clear all non-financial holds and financial holds over $1,000 in order to register for courses. Your Registration Information Sheet is the best place to continue to check and clear new holds. Financial holds may be cleared on the web using the What I Owe page. Emergency loan holds will not be temporarily lifted so that you may early register.  You must remain “hold-free” through the first day of the add/drop period in order for your requests to be processed.

All students are eligible to participate in early registration during the Spring semester (for Fall courses); however, only second-year and third-year J.D. students are eligible in the Fall semester (for Spring courses), when first-year courses are pre-assigned to incoming students. Students who do not submit course requests during early registration may register during subsequent add/drop periods, but priority status is lost.

You may make changes to your course requests at any time during the week of early registration.

Enter the maximum number of hours you wish to schedule. Students may register for up to 16 hours during early registration. After early registration, you must be registered for a minimum of 10 hours, unless you have approval from the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. Forms to request approval to take fewer than 10 or more than 16 hours are available online.  Approval is not automatic; there must be a compelling reason.

The current American Bar Association standard prohibits law students from registering for more than 17 hours per semester. If you receive approval to register for 17 hours, you may add the extra hour(s) during the add/drop period.

Clinics are not part of the online early registration system. Students apply directly to the clinical program for admission, and should apply as early as possible since most clinics fill up. Each student who is admitted to a clinic must add it to his or her schedule during the next available add/drop period. If this is not done, the student will be dropped from any course that conflicts with the clinic. Information about applying to a clinic can be found at https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/application-information/.

Internships are not part of the online early registration system. Each student admitted to an internship must add the internship during the next available add/drop period. If this is not done, the student will be dropped from any course that conflicts with a classroom component of an internship. Information about applying to an internship can be found at https://law.utexas.edu/internships/application-information/.

If you have taken or are currently enrolled in a seminar, you may rank up to two seminars; however, your ranked seminars will be awarded after seminars for students who have not taken one.

You may request more than one course with similar course numbers (i.e., LAW x84W), but you can only be awarded one of these classes during early registration. The exceptions to this rule are: 87V, 89V, 96V, and 96W.

You may not request courses that require an application. If you apply and are accepted, you will be notified of a seat saved for you to add during the add/drop registration period.

You may request courses that have time conflicts. If both courses are available, the system will award the one you have given the higher priority. You will not be awarded both. Texas Law does not allow students to take courses that have any amount of time conflict, even with approval from a professor.

While you may request multiple sections of Fri-Sat short courses that meet over the weekend, you can only be awarded at most one of these classes during early registration. Conflicts may also arise with short courses that are not one weekend only/have more than one meeting date/have a last class day that is before the academic term end. Please prioritize your requests accordingly. If you are registered for one short course and are interested in taking another, contact registration@law.utexas.edu after Add/Drop opens about requesting a Time Conflict Override. This can only be processed if the desired class is still open and there is not an actual meeting conflict.

You may not request these courses in early registration. An application is required and must be approved; students who are approved will be given access to add during the next add/drop periods.

You may not request non-law courses in early registration. To earn Law school credit for the non-law course, you must obtain prior approval. If approved, non-law classes will be added by the applicable department during a subsequent add/drop period.