Registration for classes is by appointment and is completed online.  Once you have submitted your application, Admissions and Records will give you your user name and student identification number.  You will use your user name to log into MyAVC.  The first time you log into MyAVC you enter your user name and your PIN will be your birth date as a six-digit number with no dashes or slashes.  For example, if your birth date is September 20, 1962, you enter it as 092062.  Once logged on, you will be prompted to change your PIN to one with at least 8 figures including at least one number.  It is in MyAVC that you select your classes and register.  If you have any problems with this process from home or do not have Internet access from home, you may use the computer terminals in the lobby of the Student Services Center or the open computer labs on the second floor of the Student Services building (SSV 202 and 203).

You may also register for classes in person at Admissions and Records in the Student Services Building.  However, this option is available only if you are unable to register online.  You cannot register online if you are repeating a course.   Other conditions that might require you to register in person can be avoided with a little advance planning.  If you have completed the prerequisite to a course at another college or university, or if you are submitting a prerequisite challenge, you can submit your prerequisite challenge form or a copy of your transcript in time for us to modify the registration database to allow you to register online. These documents are submitted to the Counseling Center.

It is very important for you to be aware of the deadline for paying your registration fees.  If you do not pay on time, you will be dropped from all your classes.  So, be sure to check in the class schedule each term in which you enroll to know this date.  You are not actually enrolled in any course until you pay your registration fees on time.   

If you are unable to enroll in a course of your choice because it has reached its maximum enrollment by the time you attempt to enroll, you have options.  First, you can attempt to enroll in a different section of the same class.  You may also consider enrolling in a different course than your first choice.  You can also try to “crash” the course.  To do this, show up at the very first meeting of the class with an Add/Drop slip (obtained from Admissions and Records) to see if the instructor has room in the class and if the instructor will add you.  If the instructor signs your add slip, you must then process this slip through Admissions and Records right away.  Adding classes this way must be accomplished during the first two weeks of a semester (first week of the Summer and Intersession) only.  You cannot add classes after that time except with the additional permission of the dean of the division offering the course.

Sometimes students find that they must withdraw from a course for any number of reasons.  You may drop a class at any time during the first 13 weeks of either the fall or spring semester or the first six weeks of the summer or the first three weeks of the intersession without penalty.  You will simply receive a ”W” on your transcript.  However, if you withdraw during the first 4 weeks of either the fall or spring semester or the first 2 weeks of the summer or the first week of the intersession, there will be no notation on your transcript, it will be as if you never enrolled for the course. 

Note: You may not drop a course after the 13th week of the fall or spring semester, or after the 7th week of the summer, or after the 4th week of the intersession.  If you stop attending you will still receive a grade.