Registration Information
Some Steps to Make Registration Go Smoothly and Effectively
1. Check that you have PREregistered correctly. Use the MIDS modules:
Matrices - Query Current Midshipmen and Matrices - Query Major Requirements
to see if you are on track with your major: enough courses, enough hours, prerequisites met, no deficiencies, etc. Check the Course Catalogue at the Academic Dean's website, including the descriptions of the new and special courses available via the "Fall" or "Spring" button near the bottom of that webpage. If you are not sure about your preregistration, then contact your academic adviser ASAP.
You cannot change your list of preregistered courses when you go online to register.
2. About 2 to 3 weeks before you go online to register, make sure there will be viable schedules. Once departments have entered section data for courses, check out your schedule options with the MIDS module Schedules - Query Potential Mid Schedules. Enter Alpha number, click "Submit", and click "Find Schedules". (Click the "Help" button to get an overview of how this module works; remember that a Ctrl-click on a course in the OFFERED COURSES or LOCKED SECTIONS boxes inserts and deletes the course from the list below the box.)
At this point, there are two possibilities.
a. One or more schedules appear. Use these schedules to select a desired schedule to request when registering.
b. A "hard conflict" means there are no possible schedules among all of the offered sections of those courses chosen. "Test registrations" will be run just before Registration to try to minimize hard conflicts, but without guarantees. Either on your own or with the aid of your academic adviser, check alternative lists of courses with this module. Once a viable schedule is found, have your adviser contact Academic Scheduling (acsched@usna.edu) to change your preregistration before you register. Remember: You cannot change your list of preregistered courses when you are registering.
3. Register as early as possible. Your chances of getting your desired schedule will increase. But, even if you are the very first midshipman to register, this is not a guarantee that a "soft conflict" will be avoided, meaning the desired or needed sections have already been filled. This is possible because MIDS does not schedule each midshipman individually when he or she submits a registration request. Instead MIDS schedules groups of midshipmen every few hours through the business day.
