Spring 2026 Registration Change Guide

Dear University of Washington students,

Welcome to Spring 2026. This guide contains information about adding, dropping, or withdrawing from any or all of your Spring 2026 courses. You may not need these instructions until later in the quarter, so feel free to bookmark this page for future reference.

Registration Changes

We strongly encourage you to consult with your adviser or advising team before making any of the following changes to your schedule. Carefully review the following instructions, deadlines, and links.

ACCESS Program

ACCESS students must make any registration changes through the corresponding campus registration team.

Registration Change Fee

A $20 Change of Registration fee is assessed for any number of add, drop, or change transactions. Use the UW Academic Calendar to identify when this affects you.

UW Academic Calendar 2025—2026

Review the University of Washington 2025–2026 UW Academic Calendar, especially the “Adding/ Dropping Courses or Complete Withdrawal” section, for Spring 2026 deadlines.

Religious Accommodation

It is the policy of the University to reasonably accommodate students’ religious observances. Learn more about the Religious Accommodations Policy.

Spring 2026 Deadline: Friday, April 10, 2026 at 5 p.m.

Time Conflicts

Students who register for two classes which meet any portion of the same class time are responsible to meet the requirements of each course in terms of exams and instructor expectations.

Drop Courses From Your Schedule

Review the tuition forfeiture policy when considering course drops. You may not get all your tuition back, depending on when you drop.

Period	Fee	Transcript	Drops
Through Apr 5 End of Week 1	No fee charged	Course drops do not appear on your transcript	Add and drop courses freely using Register.UW. Withdrawal: Students who drop all their courses will have a withdrawal statement and the date of withdrawal posted to their transcript.
Apr 6—12 Week 2 Unrestricted Drop Period	$20 fee charged	Course drops do not appear on your transcript	You may continue to add and drop courses using Register.UW, but you will be charged a $20 Change of Registration fee for all registration changes processed in a single day. Withdrawal: Students who drop all their courses will have a withdrawal statement and the date of withdrawal posted to their transcript.
Apr 13—Jun 5 Week 3—Last Day of Instruction Late Course Drop Period	$20 fee charged	Course drops appear on your transcript	You may drop one class yourself via Register.UW using the self-serve Quarterly Drop. To drop multiple classes or an additional class, if you already used your Quarterly Drop, use the Adviser-Assisted Drop Request Form. Consult with your adviser, who must meet with you to discuss your schedule changes before your campus registration team completes the request. Additionally: Students whose enrollment depends on maintaining full-time status, including NCAA athletes and F-1/J-1 international students, may not be able to use the self-serve Quarterly Drop. In these cases, use the Adviser-Assisted Drop.

Registrar Drop (RD) Transcript Notation

Students who drop any courses beginning the third week of the quarter will have RD listed on their transcript for those courses.

Withdraw Completely from the Quarter

Period	Fee	Transcript	Drops
Apr 13—Jun 5 Week 3—Last Day of Instruction	No fee charged	Course drops appear on your transcript	To withdraw from all your courses, submit the Adviser-Assisted Drop Request Form. Students may not completely withdraw after June 5, 2026. Dropped courses will be noted on the transcript with an RD annotation, along with a withdrawal statement and the date of withdrawal.

S/NS Grading

Use the S/NS Grading Option Change Process by the last day of the quarter, June 12, to set your grade mode for eligible classes to S/NS or numeric grading.

Important! Proceed with caution when selecting S/NS grading. The petition allowing eligible and approved undergraduate students to switch back to numeric grading after the quarter ends will be under review during Spring 2026, and this process may be discontinued.

Do not choose the S/NS grading mode unless you are willing to have the course remain graded as S/NS.

Marking a course as S/NS means any requirement that the course might have fulfilled will still need to be completed later to graduate. We recommend you use S/NS grading sparingly. Petitions to revert to numeric grading from S/NS are approved in limited circumstances. After the last day of finals week, graduate students will not be able to change an S/NS grade to a numeric grade, as per scholastic regulation 110, 1.B section 5.

S/NS grades cannot be used to complete prerequisites, program, or degree requirements.

The $20 Change of Registration fee applies each time you request a grading option change. Based on your overall financial situation, if incurring the grade change fee creates a hardship, you may want to contact the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Drop Courses from a Previous Quarter

The Former Quarter Drop (FQD) option lets students request to drop past-quarter courses due to uncontrollable extenuating circumstances which prevented you from using the Current Quarter drop process. There is a one-year submission deadline. If approved, an RD will appear on your transcript for these courses.

Please review the policy and eligibility requirements to determine if this is the right process for you. You may also consider speaking to an adviser to support you through this process if you have questions or need guidance with completing the FQD process.

Registration Tampering Abuse Policy: Don’t buy, sell, trade, or hold spots in classes!

Know that buying, selling, trading, or holding open spots is a breach of the Registration Tampering Abuse Policy. Consequences include referral to the Student Code of Conduct process, a Registrar’s Hold on your record, and potential diploma withholding for graduating students until the conduct process is complete.

Pronouns

The University of Washington is committed to ensuring everyone is welcomed here as their authentic self. You can find more resources and important information at Pronouns at UW.

Manage Your Name Types

Students can provide the University with a variety of name types associated with their student records. Review the name types and to learn how to manage your name.

Emergency Contacts

Beginning in Spring 2026, students will no longer be required to provide Student Emergency Contact information during the pre-registration process or through departmental procedures. Instead, students will update or add emergency contacts in their MyUW Profile. Students will be required to provide the University with two emergency contacts of their choosing, to be utilized only in the event of an emergency circumstance.

Please contact your corresponding campus registration team with any questions regarding registration.

Sincerely,
Helen B. Garrett, Ed.D., University Registrar
University of Washington — regoff@uw.edu

Andrea Coker-Anderson, MPA, Registrar
University of Washington Tacoma — reguwt@uw.edu

Pamela H. Lundquist, M.Ed., Registrar
University of Washington Bothell — uwbreg@uw.edu