Advising Registration Holds

Registration Hold for Undeclared Students with High Credits:

Western is committed to student success and timely completion of graduation requirements. Western reserves the right to restrict students who are not making sufficient progress toward declaring a major by placing a registration hold on those students’ accounts. The Insufficient Progress Toward Degree and Registration Holds policy is available in the University Catalog.

Advising Support:

Students who do not declare a major, pre-major, or Phase I major by the time they reach 105+ quarter credits are required to meet with an advisor or declare their major prior to registering for classes.

The Academic Advising & Student Achievement Center utilizes the 105-credit hold process to assist students in choosing and declaring a major. Our goal is to support timely major declaration and graduation.
 

Quarterly Process:

105 credit holds are placed at the beginning of each quarter, providing students ample time to take appropriate action to address the hold prior to registration. Undeclared students who have completed 105+ quarter credits will go through this process every quarter until they have declared a major, pre-major or Phase I major.

To remove the registration hold, students must complete one of the actions listed below:

• Meet with an academic advisor in the Academic Advising & Student Achievement Center.
• Meet with an academic departmental advisor from your intended major and request they email your name, W#, and a note confirming you met and are on track to declare to: aacforms@wwu.edu.
• Declare a major, pre-major or Phase I major. Your 105-credit hold will be removed once the academic department has approved your Student Academic Declaration & Change form and the Registrar's Office has processed it.

Students needing to make changes to their current quarter schedule will need to complete one of these steps to have the 105-credit registration hold lifted.

If a student transfers into Western with 105+ quarter credits, they will not receive a hold until their second quarter of enrollment, if still undeclared at that time.

Communication to Students:

Undeclared students with 75+ quarter credits receive quarterly notification emails via their Western email address to share that they are approaching the 105-credit mark and should seek out advising related to their major planning.

Email notification to students who have received a 105-credit registration hold, along with instructions regarding next steps, is sent to their Western email address early in fall, winter, and spring quarters. Reminder emails for students who have not had their hold removed are sent on a weekly basis until Phase I registration begins.