OPENS: 10 am Monday, November 7
CLOSES: 5 pm Friday, November 11
Dear First Year Students:
Pre-registration for the Spring 2012 First-Year Electives will open at 10 am on Monday, November 7, and will close promptly at 5 pm EST on Friday, November 11. During this period you will be able to select from a list of 8 courses: 5 First-Year Electives and 3 upper-level courses.
The upper-level courses are being offered as an accommodation because we are offering fewer 1L electives this year than in the past, and were selected because they present alternative perspectives or methodologies of the sort the 1L electives are intended to offer. A very limited number of seats for 1L’s in these courses was approved by the Faculty, so students interested in any of the three upper-level courses should give them high priority in their rankings. The 1L electives and the three (3) upper-level classes are scheduled so that they do not conflict with any of the other 1L foundation courses (Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Property, Torts).
TO PRE-REGISTER FOR SPRING 2012 ELECTIVES: To access a podcast with Instructions on pre-registering for 1L electives and a PDF of the 1L elective course description pamphlet, log in to Lawnet at http://lawnetportal.law.columbia.edu/web/registrar/1l_electives
You must rank all eight (8) elective offerings in order for your pre-registration to be completed. If you are interested in being considered for one of the upper-level electives, you should give them very high priority since seats will be limited (between 5-15 seats in each class). If you are not interested in the upper-level courses, give them lowest priority. A course lottery will be run, and the results will be available by the end of the December exam period, when Spring 2012 schedules for all students will be posted in Lawnet.
NOTE: First-year students who do not finalize their elective pre-registrationbefore 5 pm on Friday, November 11, will not be included in the lottery and thus will not receive any priority for an elective. They later will be registered for an elective that has available seats after all students who pre-registered are placed. You are advised not to leave your elective pre-registration for late in the day on Friday, November 11, since technical or connectivity issues may prevent you from completing your pre-registration before the 5 pm deadline.
