As approved by Senate, in principle, priority for registration is normally determined by three factors:

• Students' program of study (i.e. degree, major, minor)
• Closeness to graduation (i.e. number of credits completed*)
• Students' academic achievement (i.e. GPA*)

Academic units may allocate spaces in course sections for students in a particular program of study, based upon students' declared degree, major and/or minor.

Students are classified into categories and their priority in registration is determined by the details described below.

Varsity athletes

New and current varsity athletes will register first to accommodate competition and practice schedules.

New students with early offers of scholarships

For fall registration, new Memorial University students with early scholarship offers will register following varsity athletes.

For winter registration, new Memorial University students who received early scholarship offers (interim admission average of 90% or higher) and those receiving an entrance scholarship (final admission average of 85% or higher) will register next.

For both fall and winter registration, within the group, students are ranked based on surname, alternating each semester.

All other new students

First semester and contiguous second semester students will then follow. Within the group, students are ranked based on surname, alternating each semester.

Current and returning students

Current and returning students follow. This category is divided into two groups:

1. students who have accumulated 90 or more credit hours,
2. students who have accumulated fewer than 90 credit hours.

Within each of these two groups, the students are ranked by a registration grade point average (GPA), which is defined as the better of either the GPA based on the last 30 attempted credit hours, or the cumulative GPA.*

College Transfer Year (CTY) students from the College of the North Atlantic (CNA)

CTY students register with the same priority as those in the current and returning students category, however, in determining the registration GPA, the grades in the courses completed in the CTY are included. The assignment of points to a grade is done by applying Memorial's grade point scale. In accordance with Memorial's policy on transfer of credit, grades are not assigned for the transferred courses, but are included for calculation of registration GPA only.

Other transfer students

First and contiguous second semester transfer students will be permitted to register at the mid-point of the time for the two registration groups as defined in the current and returning students category (i.e. either in the group with 90 or more credit hours or in the group with fewer than 90 credit hours).

Transfer students with a degree from another institution or with 90 or more credit hours of transfer credit are included in the 90 or more credit-hour group and all others are included with the fewer than 90 credit hour group. Beyond the second contiguous semester the priority for these students will be determined by registration GPA, as defined for the current and returning students category.

* In determining total earned credit hours and the registration GPA, the following will be included:

• For fall semester registration, work completed up to and including the previous winter semester.
• For winter semester registration, work completed up to and including the previous spring semester.
• For spring semester registration, work completed up to and including the previous fall semester.