Author: Timothy Brown

Registration Guidance

Registration Guidance

Important Registration information:

  • Add yourself to the waitlist (if applicable for the course). EVERYTHING starts and ends with the waitlist.

    • The waitlist process will start on Monday, November 7th with the first tickets.  Please note, we will pause waitlist notifications for the Thanksgiving break on Monday, November 21st at approximately 5pm ET.  We will restart waitlist notifications the morning of November 28th at approximately 9am ET.  This phase of registration will end on Friday, December 16th at 4pm ET. 

  • Check your email several times per day.

  • Along the same lines, check OSCAR for updates.

  • There are no overloads or permits for CS courses
  • Please do not contact another advisor on the advising team.
  • Check degreeworks for your class options and entertain ALL scheduling combinations, not just optimal ones.
  • Here’s a list of potential prerequisite changes for Spring 23. This is also posted on the undergraduate registration information page.
  • Go here for the pathways to both undergraduate AND graduate advising (graduate advising including BSMS): Registration Dates | College of Computing (gatech.edu)

Here are some important links:

Your solution is below; please review all options and their respective links.

Info on waitlisting: Info on waitlisting: https://registrar.gatech.edu/registration/waitlists
Advisors across Campus: Find advisors in other departments: https://www.advising.gatech.edu/find-your-advisor
Error Messages: Registration errors: https://registrar.gatech.edu/registration/error-messages
Permits/Overloads (CS doesnt provide permits or overloads): Permit/Overload information (note CS does not provide either): https://registrar.gatech.edu/registration/permits-and-overloads
BSMS Advisor: BSMS advisor: Jen Seelman: jennifer.seelman@cc.gatech.edu
Docusign (use this to complete all documents unless otherwise noted): Docusign: https://esignature.gatech.edu/
International/Study Abroad
Issues:		 Contact for all international/study abroad issues: Laura Person: laura.person@cc.gatech.edu
Anticipated Course Offerings: Anticipated course offerings for upcoming semesters can be found here
Student Alert: Some of the student alert info can be found on this page. Otherwise, search your inbox.

FREE ELECTIVE

A free elective is any credit bearing course (as in not audit) that Tech offers, from Accounting to Wolof. Therefore, a student can look at oscar.gatech.edu and register for anything and have it count as a free elective (provided they meet the registration criteria for the course). Many students will have surplus credits in the fallthrough area of their degreeworks, and this can be applied to their free elective credit should the need arise. Students may also have extra credits in areas like humanities or Calc 3 (taking Math 2551 instead of 2550) that can also be applied to free elective.

Thinking about BS/MS?

You may be thinking about pursuing the BSCS. If so, make sure you look at their official information here.

 

Below are some things to consider as you are contemplating moving forward.

  • The most important thing to remember in this is that you need to be very communicative with your advisor throughout the process.
  • So long as you do that, hopefully you can avoid issues.
  • Keep in mind that the program is still relatively new and procedures will get updated as a result, and so this is why you should make sure you are communicating with your advisor.

There are many processes by which you can do your due diligence in pursuing the BS/MS. Below is a way that you can feel free to utilize, or come up with your own method. Links are provided for your convenience.

 

  1. Review the requirements for BS/MS.  This includes looking at specializations and the Frequently Asked Questions.
  2. Communicate with your advisor your intent to pursue BS/MS. Also attend any information sessions and monitor email for any information from advising regarding BS/MS.
  3. In degreeworks, save a pdf of you current bachelor’s degree audit.
  4. In degreeworks, run a ‘what if’ scenario for your Masters area of interest by doing the following:
    1. On the left hand side, click ‘what if’
    2. In the first set of drop downs under the grey ‘what if’ banner:
      1. change the level to ‘graduate semester’,
      2. the degree to ‘MS in Computer science’,
  • and Catalog year to the most recent year.
  1. In the second set of drop downs under the grey ‘choose your different areas of study’,
    1. change the ‘major’ field to ‘computer science’ so that it populates the box on the right.
    2. Change the ‘Concentration’ field to ‘MSCS:  ___________(your area of interest here)’ so that it populates the box on the right.
  • Once the box on the right contains your major and concentration, then click ‘save pdf’.
  1. You should have two (2) PDFs now, one of your bachelors and one of your masters.
  2. NOTE: This only applies to the MSCS Course option. This does NOT work for other MS options (like the thesis option) or other Masters degree areas (like cybersecurity).
  3. If you are interested in other MS options or other Master’s degree areas in the College of Computing, then you should discuss this with your advisor.
  4. Once you have an idea of what courses you may want for BS/MS, check the equivalencies page to make sure that the courses you select do not have undergraduate versions that do not allow duplicate credit. It’s also a good idea to touch base with your advisor at this point confirming you’ve done the above few steps and want to incorporate it into your graduation plan.
  5. When you have identified your personal BS/MS path, consider applying for the program per the procedures as outlined on the BS/MS site.
    1. Please keep in mind that waiting to apply can have adverse effects since you lose your biggest resource: time.
    2. You can and are highly encouraged to keep communicating with the advising staff during this process and if your plans change (example: you planned to do BS/MS but Bill Gates from Microsoft personally offered you a million trillion dollars and now you aren’t going to do BS/MS).
  6. Note the high level of advisor interaction in this process as that is highly encouraged so as to avoid inaccuracies.

Again, students are encouraged to adopt a BS/MS approach that they are comfortable with and allows them to meet the stipulations required by the program, and are also highly encouraged to receive guidance throughout the process.

 

Pass/Fail in CS

Other than CS 1100, CS students can only utilize pass/fail hours as free electives.
Maximum: 6 hours, contingent upon the Georgia Tech Pass/Fail Hours policy:
Hours included in program of study Hours allowed on pass/fail basis
45 to 70 credit hours 3 credit hours
71 to 90 credit hours 6 credit hours
91 or more credit hours 9 credit hours

If a student falls into the 71-90 credit hour range, their 6 hour maximum includes CS 1100