Pictured Above: Registration status in OASIS is available to students to check their assigned registration time.
Catherine Hicks | The Crow’s Nest
Students have one more thing on their plate this year: registration.
With the prospect of finals season looming ahead, the mad dash to get an academic advising appointment before your assigned registration time, and the anxiety of potentially not making it into a class, it’s no surprise this is an anxiety-ridden time for most students.
This year’s registration season started on Nov. 2.
One of the more confusing aspects of registration is the assigned registration times, which indicate when a specific student is eligible to register, and why they’re different from student to student. This year, the assigned registration times started on Nov. 2, with the final one on Nov. 30. Registration remains open through the first week of the term – the drop and add week.
According to the USF Registrar’s website, “registration times are assigned to students based on current grade level classification and cumulative GPA standing.”
The first group eligible to register on Nov. 2 included students in the honors program, student-athletes, and high-achieving undergraduates, based on earned hours and GPA.
The next day, Nov. 3, opened registration to graduate students.
Seniors of various standings are assigned dates through the period of Nov. 4 and Nov. 9. Registration opens to juniors on Nov. 12, sophomores on Nov. 16 and freshmen on Nov. 20.
The last registration opening date is Nov. 30, for non-degree seeking students. State employees using waivers aren’t eligible to register until four days prior to the start of the semester.
Students registering on Nov. 5 encountered additional stressors because the Schedule Planner website was down almost the entire day.
Students took to Reddit to share their frustrations with the system being down.
“I always dread registration for this reason. It’s like everything that could go wrong, goes wrong,” wrote one student under the username @tired-usf-student.
“The problem was not related to USF,” said Carrie O’Brion, director of marketing and communications at USF St. Petersburg. “There was a system-wide problem with the vendor for Schedule Planner that impacted all of the universities who use their product. The issue was resolved by the
