How to Register: New Degree Students
All new freshman and transfer students must have a $200 enrollment deposit on account 24 hours prior to being eligible to register for summer or fall courses.
- New freshman and transfer students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science will attend a required New Student Welcome Program on May 30. Information about this program will be sent to all new students by the college soon after the Office of Admissions receives the confirmation form. Registration information and materials will be given to all new students during this New Student Program Welcome Program on May 30 for terms A, C, and D, and July 7 for term B. Please call the engineering dean's office at 303-492-5071 if you have any questions.
- New summer freshman and transfer students in the Leeds School of Business, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication register beginning March 10 but are required to attend an orientation program during the summer in order to register for the fall semester. Information is available at www.colorado.edu/orientation.
- All other new and readmitted freshman and transfer students register beginning March 10. Registration materials are mailed to degree students by the registrar's office after admissions receives the confirmation form.
Your Invitation to Register
Read your summer invitation to register carefully (you receive your invitation with your summer registration materials). It contains your registration time assignment (the earliest date and time you can register).
Your invitation also contains your personal identification number (PIN) and CU-Boulder student ID number. You need both of these numbers to access web registration. Keep them confidential. If you feel they are not secure, you can change your PIN via PLUS at plus.colorado.edu or in the campus web portal at cuconnect.colorado.edu, or come to the registrar's office in Regent 105.
Your invitation may also indicate a registration “stop” on your record. Stops can occur any time in the registration process and can prevent your enrollment in courses. Be sure to check your record and take care of any stops before you register.
In addition, there may be a statement on your invitation to register about academic advising being required before you can register. If you are required to see an academic advisor, make an appointment as soon as possible. Take your completed summer registration planning form (click here to download form) with you to your advising appointment. If you are not required to see an academic advisor, but you would like advising, you can either go to your dean's office or to the Academic Advising Center in Woodbury. After being advised, you can register any time after your time assignment begins.
If you are a new or readmitted degree student at CU-Boulder this summer and you have not yet paid your $200 enrollment deposit, you need to do so at least 24 hours before your registration time assignment begins.
