Autumn 2025 Registration Change Guide | Department of Geography

Submitted by Nell Gross on September 24, 2025 - 3:02 pm

September 24, 2025

This message is being sent to all autumn 2025 quarter students across the University of Washington, as well as academic advisers.

Dear University of Washington students,

Welcome to autumn quarter 2025. This message contains a guide with information about adding, dropping or withdrawing from any or all of your autumn 2025 courses. You may not need these instructions until later in the quarter, so hold onto this email for future reference.

Autumn 2025 Registration Changes Guide

We strongly encourage you to consult with your adviser or advising team before making any changes listed below. If you are an ACCESS student, any registration changes need to be made through your campus registration team.

Carefully review these instructions, deadlines, and links. Note a $20 Change of Registration fee is assessed for any number of add, drop or change transactions. Use the academic calendar to identify at what date this affects you.

UW Academic Calendar 2025–2026

Review the University of Washington 2025–2026 Academic Calendar, especially the “Adding/ Dropping Courses or Complete Withdrawal” section, for autumn 2025 quarter deadlines.

Request a Religious Accommodation

It is the policy of the University to reasonably accommodate students' religious observances. Learn more about the Religious Accommodations Policy.

Accommodation request deadlines for Autumn 2025:

Oct. 3, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

Time Conflicts

Students who register for two classes which meet any portion of the same class time are responsible to meet the requirements of each course in terms of exams and instructor expectations.

Drop Courses From Your Schedule

Review the tuition forfeiture policy when considering course drops — you may not get all your tuition back depending on when you drop.

Drop Courses From Your Schedule

Last day to make changes in registration without being assessed a $20 fee

Add and drop courses freely using Register.UW. If you drop all your courses, a withdrawal statement and the date of withdrawal will be posted to your transcript.

Last day: Sept. 30, 2025

Unrestricted Drop Period

You may continue to add and drop courses using Register.UW but you will be charged $20 Change of Registration fee for all registration changes made on a single day.

Deadline: Oct. 7, 2025

Registrar Drop (RD) Transcript Notation

If you drop any courses beginning in the third week of the quarter, your transcript will display an RD for those courses.

Late Course Drop Period

You may drop one class yourself via Register.UW using the Current Quarter Drop self-serve Quarterly Drop.

To drop multiple classes or an additional class if you already used your Quarterly Drop, use the Current Quarter Drop Adviser-Assisted Drop Request Form. Consult with your adviser, who will check in with you to see if you have questions about dropping classes and will then forward your request to your campus registration team to complete the request.

If your enrollment depends on maintaining full-time status, including NCAA athletes and F-1/J-1 international students, you may not be able to use the self-serve Quarterly Drop. In these cases, use the Adviser-Assisted Drop.

Deadline: Dec. 5, 2025

Withdraw Completely From the Quarter

Complete Withdraw Process — course drops appear on your transcript.

To withdraw from all your courses, submit the Current Quarter Drop Adviser-Assisted Drop Request Form. Students may not completely withdraw after the last day of instruction. Each dropped course will appear on the transcript with an RD annotation. A withdrawal statement and the date of withdrawal will also appear. Consult with Student Fiscal Services regarding questions about your tuition.

Deadline: Dec. 5, 2025

Drop Courses From a Previous Quarter

The Former Quarter Drop (FQD) option lets students request to drop past-quarter courses due to uncontrollable extenuating circumstances which prevented you from using the Current Quarter drop process. There is a one-year submission deadline. If approved, an RD will appear on your transcript for these courses.

Please review the policy and eligibility requirements to determine if this is the right process for you. You may also consider speaking to an adviser to support you through this process if you have questions or need guidance with completing the FQD process.

S/NS Grading

Use the S/NS Grading Option Change Process by the last day of the quarter to set your grade mode for eligible classes to S/NS or numeric grading.

Important! Proceed with caution when selecting S/NS grading. The petition allowing eligible and approved undergraduate students to switch back to numeric grading after the quarter ends will be under review during the Autumn 2025 quarter, and this process may be discontinued.

Do not choose the S/NS grading mode unless you are willing to have the course remain as S/NS.

Marking a course as S/NS means any requirement that the course might have fulfilled will still need to be completed later to graduate. We recommend you use S/NS grading sparingly. Petitions to revert to numeric grading from S/NS are approved in limited circumstances. After the last day of finals week, graduate students will not be able to change an S/NS to a numeric grade, as per scholastic regulation 110, 1.B section 5.

S/NS grades cannot be used to complete prerequisites, program, or degree requirements. The $20 Change of Registration fee applies each time you request a grading option change. Based on your overall financial situation, if incurring the grade change fee creates a hardship, you may want to contact the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Deadline: Dec. 12, 2025

Registration Tampering Abuse Policy: Don’t trade, buy, sell or hold spots in classes!

Know that trading, buying, selling or holding spots is a breach of the Registration Tampering Abuse Policy. Consequences include referral to the Student Code of Conduct process, a Registrar’s Hold on your record, and potential diploma withholding for graduating students until the conduct process is complete.

Pronouns

The University of Washington is committed to ensuring everyone is welcomed here as their authentic self. You can find a new central online resource on the Husky Health & Well-Being website with important information about Sharing Pronouns at the UW.

Manage Your Name Types

Students have the ability to provide the University with a variety of name types associated with your student records. Review the name types and to learn how to manage your name.

If you have questions on any of the information above, please contact your campus registration team at the email for your campus listed below.

Sincerely,

HELEN B. GARRETT, Ed.D., University Registrar
University of Washington — regoff@uw.edu

ANDREA COKER-ANDERSON, MPA, Registrar
University of Washington Tacoma — reguwt@uw.edu

PAMELA H. LUNDQUIST, M.Ed., Registrar
University of Washington Bothell — uwbreg@uw.edu

Office of the University Registrar 2nd Floor Schmitz Hall, Seattle, WA 98195

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