Special Permission Process

Mathematics Undergraduate Program

NOTICE: Matriculated undergraduates can request special permission for closed sections of fall and spring courses only through the automated system described below. This system is available only during the special permission period, beginning shortly before the term and running through the first week of classes.

There are three kinds of special requests students may need to make to the undergraduate office to gain admittance to certain courses.

• Admission to some honors courses is by permission of the department.
• Admission to closed sections of regular courses requires a special permission number.
• Admission to courses for which the prerequisites have been filled in an unusual way may require a prerequisite override.

Honors Courses

Students should request special permission for these courses by completing the appropriate special permission form available online.

Requests for fall courses may be submitted during the previous spring or summer; requests for spring courses during the previous fall.

Prerequisite overrides

A student who is unable to register for a course because he or she lacks the proper prerequisites should not request a special permission number. Under some circumstances – for example, if the student has taken appropriate prerequisite courses elsewhere, and these are not yet credited to his or her Rutgers transcript – please fill out a prerequisite override form.

If justification for receiving a prerequisite override is too complicated to adequately describe on the form on the online website, please go to the Advising Office of the Math Dept, room 308 of the Hill Center.

Closed Sections

A student should seek this form of special permission only after trying to register through the Rutgers Web Registration System and finding that all sections that he or she can take are closed.

While the department tries to accommodate students, there is NO GUARANTEE that any special permission request will be granted.

• Fall and Spring Terms

  • Matriculated undergraduates should request special permission for admission to closed sections using the automated special permission system described below. While the special permission process is ongoing students should attend a section that they are trying to enter via special permission, so that no class time will be missed.
  • Non-matriculated undergraduate students and graduate students should request special permission for admission to closed sections by completing the appropriate special permission form available online or in the Mathematics Undergraduate Office located in Hill Center, Room 303 on Busch Campus. Decisions on these requests will be made during the first week of classes.