Updated: April 15th, 2025
Welcome to the Summer Session 2025 Updates page!
Here you will learn: Important Summer 2025 course information, how we manage the waitlists, enrollment priority information for CSE majors, when we are opening any available seats, and how non-CSE majors can request to enroll in CSE restricted courses.
Due to the high demand for CSE courses, enrolling in CSE courses can be confusing. Please read the following page in detail. This page is subject to change periodically so we recommend checking our website and the Schedule of Classes for the most up to date information.
The capacity in each course is determined by multiple variables (not just the classroom size), including but not limited to:
- Classroom size availability
- Instructor availability
- Instructor teaching load
- Instructional support availability (TA/tutor support)
- Scalability of the course
Important Notes:
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Students will need to assume everything is in person and/or synchronous only unless stated otherwise in the "Notes" below for the course section.
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Course components with the location listed as RCLAS on the Schedule of Classes/WebReg will be remote/online course components.
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Information about CSE 141 and CSE 141L: If you wish to bypass the CSE 140L requirement for this course, please submit an EASy Request.
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CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment concerns. This includes questions pertaining to waitlists, late adds, general enrollment, major restrictions, and/or graduate requests. All enrollment questions need to be relayed in the VAC.
- Advising
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Current students may contact us via the Virtual Advising Center (vac.ucsd.edu) or csestudent@ucsd.edu. We are offering drop-in advising (all students) and advising appointments (current CSE majors only) which can be conducted via Zoom or in-person. To schedule an appointment, please email csestudent@ucsd.edu.
Our front Intake Office is typically open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 1:00 - 3:30 PM during the Spring Quarter. This page will be updated with Summer hours closer to the start of the Summer Quarter. Please visit our Academic Advising page or Undergraduate Advising page for the most up to date information.
- Major Priority
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There is no major priority for CSE courses in the summer. All undergraduate students should expect to be enrolled in courses in waitlist order only.
Note: All undergraduates have a priority to add undergraduate CSE courses; graduate students have priority to add graduate CSE courses. Priority is not given to:
- Students who postpone taking a course hoping for a particular instructor in a future quarter.
- Seniors (or others) who do not use their 1st and 2nd pass early-enrollment times.
- Students who failed or withdrew from the course in a previous quarter
- Late Add Policy
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No late adds - no exceptions. The CSE department does not allow students to add courses past the specified deadline (Summer Session 1- July 7th, and Summer Session 2 - August 8th).
EASy requests for Late Adds in the CSE Department will be denied, so please plan accordingly.
If you are on the waitlist for a class, you are expected to attend class for the first two weeks and complete all assignments. NOTE: Attending class and completing course assignments does not guarantee enrollment. If students choose to miss class or not turn in assignments while on the waitlist, the student will receive a "0" on all missed assignments, if they secure a seat in the course off the waitlist.
CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment or late add concerns.
- Waitlist Policy
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Once all seats are released, students will only be added to courses with waitlists in waitlist order via the automatic waitlist enrollment process. The last waitlist add runs on depends on the session (Summer Session 1- July 2nd, and Summer Session 2 - August 6th). The CSE department will NOT manually clear any students to enroll even if space becomes available on the last day of enrollment.
Non-CSE majors: If you are not able to enroll in your CSE courses in Summer 2025, you may need to enroll in a subsequent quarter.
CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment or waitlist concerns.
- Enrollment/Course Policies
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Prerequisites: Enforced for ALL classes. View the Prerequisites for CSE Undergraduates page for information on all our prerequisites, in addition to transfer courses, course substitutions, and our Upper Division Prerequisite Policy.
Enrollment Strategies: See Enrolling in CSE Courses to learn the best strategies for getting into CSE classes.
EASy: For course clearances, please use the Enrollment Authorization System (EASy). These may take 5 business days to be processed.
Petitions: If you need to petition a course for transfer credit, please use our ONLINE PETITION to do so. Please view our CSE Petitions page for detailed information.
Swaps: No swaps - no exceptions. Be sure to enroll or waitlist in the section with the assigned time you will attend and the assigned final exam you can attend. This includes R (remote) courses. If a student is waitlisted for a course and then enrolls in the R version (or vice versa) or a duplicate version of the course, the system will drop you from the waitlist or will not allow you to enroll because it recognizes you are already enrolled or waitlisted for the other course.
We will not clear students to add to the course in these situations as the system moves on and automatically adds the next eligible student on the waitlist.We do not release names of instructors until their appointments are official with the University. Once official, instructor names are posted on the Schedule of Classes and WebReg.
CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment concerns.
- Non-CSE Majors and Major Restricted Courses
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Non-CSE Undergraduates who want to enroll in CSE Major restricted courses should submit an enrollment request through Enrollment Authorization System (EASy).
Major restricted courses are indicated with an asterisk (*) below. Please see CSE Course Prerequisites webpage for information on which majors are approved for major restricted courses. Requests from non-CSE major undergraduate students to be cleared to enroll in major restricted courses may take 5 business days, please plan accordingly.
CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment or major restriction concerns.
- Non-CSE Courses
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For questions about enrolling in ENG 100D or ENG 100L, please see Global Ties
Each department handles course clearances for their own courses. Please contact the respective department for course clearance to ECE, COGS, MGT, etc.
- Graduate Students
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Graduate students who wish to add undergraduate courses must submit a request through the Enrollment Authorization System (EASy).
Prerequisite clearances and approvals to add will be reviewed by the end of week two of classes based on if there is seat availability after undergraduates enroll. The CSE department does not allow students to add courses past the specified deadline (Summer Session 1- July 7th, and Summer Session 2 - August 8th) . No late adds - no exceptions.
Requests to enroll will be reviewed after undergraduate students have had the chance to enroll, which is typically by the beginning of Week 1. Depending on the demand from undergraduate students, some courses will not be open to graduate students. Seats will only be given to graduate students based on availability after undergraduate students enroll.
Enrollment in undergraduate courses is not guaranteed. Please check your EASy request status history for the most up-to-date information.
CSE instructors are not directly involved with student enrollment, do not contact the course instructor regarding enrollment concerns.
Graduate Course Request: Please see the Graduate Courses and Enrollment Information
- Max Unit Exceptions
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When the college grants a max unit exception it is for the course requested, not the quarter. If a seat becomes available in the waitlisted class the system will bypass the student needing a max unit exception and add the next student on the waitlist to the course, which means that the student needing the max unit exception will not be added because the available seat will be taken.
If a student wants to be added off of the waitlist, they would need to be under the max unit limit (enrolled and waitlisted courses combined) so the system can bring them into the course if a seat opens up (in waitlist order of course).
We will not approve requests to enroll in CSE courses exceeding the max unit limit if there is a waitlist. Please plan accordingly.
The courses listed below are the courses/sections we intend to offer in Summer 2025.
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