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Registration for Incoming Transfer Students

Incoming transfer students are urged to enroll in fall courses during the summer prior to the processing of freshman course requests in late July. Doing so will improve their chances of getting into courses for which they might be competing with freshmen. Upperclassmen are in the add/drop phase of registration and can continue to add and drop courses until the beginning of the fall semester.

Contact the College Office if there are any problems.

Students submit requests for approval of transfer credit through the online XCAT (External Course Approval Tool). Incoming transfer students should begin to submit their requests through XCAT as soon as possible after admission. Students should also contact their pre-major advisor during this time to discuss their registration requests.

Students register for classes online using Penn InTouch. To access the system, students need a PennKey and password. (Click here for details about the PennKey.)

For multi-activity courses, first request the part of the course (or activity) labeled 1.0 c.u. (or 0.5 for a lab). This is considered the graded section; the numbers are printed on the far right of the course listing in the Course Timetable. After entering the first portion of a multi-activity course, you will be prompted to register for the remaining portions. All portions of a course must be entered (lecture, recitation and lab) or the system will not consider the course for advance registration and you will not be enrolled. Examples of multi-activity courses include BIOL 101 (lecture and lab) and HIST 021 (lecture and recitation).

Repeat this process until all course requests have been entered.