Adding & Dropping Courses

 

PROCEDURE FOR ADDING A COURSE

The School of Law deadline for adding a course to one's study list is the end of the first week of the semester. The Assistant Dean for Students may permit a student to add a course within three weeks after the deadline, provided that the student presents, in writing, a reasonable (in the sole discretion of the Assistant Dean for Students) explanation for not having met the deadline, and has instructor consent. Students who wish to add a course after more than four weeks of the semester have elapsed shall be referred to the Standards Committee. In dealing with petitions to add courses more than four weeks into the semester, the Standards Committee will grant such petitions only upon a showing of "unusual circumstances."

PROCEDURE FOR DROPPING A COURSE

Any second or third year student, by written notice in the form of a drop petition submitted to the Records Office, may drop any of his/her non-clinical courses (subject to the restrictions enumerated herein), so long as dropping the course does not reduce his/her course load below 12 units, which is the minimum number of units all second and third year students must undertake per semester. Unless an earlier date is specified by the professor, a non-clinical course may be dropped through the end of the reading period, the day before a take-home final is distributed, or before submission of any required interim course work that comprises a portion of the final term grade. A clinical course may not be dropped after the first class meeting unless the student obtains instructor consent and, if necessary, finds another student to take his or her place in the class. If a student withdraws without so doing, the course dropped shall count as one of the two permitted clinicals (see Rule VIII.B. in the Summary of Academic Standards)