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 first week of classes for a given semester.

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.

For special permission for closed sections of summer courses write to ugvcsp@math.rutgers.edu

Procedures (Fall and Spring Terms)
Honors courses	Prerequisite overrides	Closed sections
Automated Web System

Honors Courses

Students should request special permission for these courses by completing the appropriate special permission form available online or in the Mathematics Undergraduate Office located in Hill Center, Room 303 on Busch Campus.

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—a prerequisite override form may be obtained from a mathematics department advisor.

Closed Sections

A student should seek this form of special permission only after trying to register through the Rutgers Touchtone Registration System (732) 445-1999 or the Rutgers Web Registration System Rutgers Web Registration 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. Requests can be submitted only during the first week of classes
    Special Note :  Spring 2012 : The First Round of Special Permission begins on January 10, 2012
    

    In addition to the two rounds that traditionally start the first week of classes, the First Round of the Spring 2012 semester will actually begin January 10, 2012, before the start of classes. This will result in three distinct rounds of the Special Permission system.
  • 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.

• Summer Term: contact ugvcsp@math.rutgers.edu

Automated special permission system
For CLOSED SECTIONS – For matriculated undergraduates
Fall and Spring Terms – First Week of Classes Only

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• Who: Matriculated undergraduates who wish to get special permission to enter closed sections of mathematics courses should use the mathematics department's web-based system.
• When: The system is available for Fall 2011 requests from the first day of classes until 9/8/11 at 4:00 PM.
  Special Permission requests are processed in two distinct rounds, the first ending on 9/6/11 at 4:00 PM.
  The second round begins at 12:00 AM on 9/7/11 and runs all day, until 4:00 PM on 9/8/11.
• How: Students using this system DO NOT need to have their own computer accounts or e-mail addresses; they only need access to the web which is available on all campuses. Deans' Offices should be prepared to help disabled students with their special permission requests.

Note: When you click on this link you may see a box with a message telling you that a certificate has expired. If this happens, the box will also have a button reading "Continue"; click on this button to continue the special permission process.