Get Admitted to UA Little Rock:
Before registering for classes, you need to apply and get admitted. If you are transferring to UA Little Rock, you can also meet with a Transfer Advisor.
Get Advised:
Getting advised is an important step in the registration process. After you’re admitted, your advisor will contact you about making an advising appointment, so check your UA Little Rock email and/or phone for a message. You can also contact your college’s advising center.
Please familiarize yourself with important registration dates and deadlines.
Register for classes in BOSS
Once your application for admission has been approved, you will be assigned a student ID (your T number) and a six-digit personal identification number (PIN). Students enrolling at the undergraduate and post-baccalaureate levels will receive a PIN from the Office of Admissions. Students enrolling at the graduate level will receive a PIN from the Graduate School. When you’ve received this information and are ready to register, go to boss.ualr.edu. The BOSS system will allow you to register for courses, view your grades, order transcripts, check your financial aid status, and much, much more.
Be sure to review your BOSS account often to ensure all of your information is up-to-date.
When you first visit BOSS, the menu will display several options. Select the first option Enter Secure Area (LOGIN) to begin registering for courses.
On the next page, you will input your User ID and PIN in the appropriate boxes. After you have done that, select the box that reads Login to then proceed to the next page.
You will be asked to change your PIN if this is your first visit. You will need to select six numbers for your PIN. There are some restrictions to what you may choose. Those restrictions will appear in a gray box on the right of your screen.
You will also be asked to select a set of security questions from a list and provide answers to the questions. If you should ever forget your PIN and need to click the “Forgot PIN?” button, then one of these questions will need to be answered before you can proceed. Please note that the answers are case-sensitive.
Once you have successfully logged in to your BOSS account, choose the Student Services option from the menu.
From there, choose the Registration option from the menu. This will bring you to the registration page, providing a registration-focused menu.
From this page, you will choose to Register/Search for Classes. The system will ask you to specify the term you want to register for. Once you choose the appropriate term you will be brought to the class search page.
Choose your subject from the list provided and click the Course Search button.
A list of courses should appear at this point. You will need to click on the View Sections button next to the course you are interested in registering for to view all the available meeting times for that course.
As you review the meeting times for your course, you should look to the left of each class and check for the following:
Click on the checkbox of the class(s) you want to take. You will then go to the bottom of the page and click the Register button.
Once you’ve clicked the Register button, you will be taken to a screen that will confirm if you’ve successfully registered for the class.
Please note: When you enroll in a course, you will be charged for that course unless you drop or withdraw by the proper deadline. You will not necessarily be dropped for not attending the course.
If, for any reason, you cannot take the course you selected, you will receive an error message.
Once a CRN/class fills up and closes, students may add their names to the waitlist, if one is offered for the course. Whether or not a class has a waitlist is determined by the department offering the course and not all courses can support a waitlist. Courses that have a waitlist are designated by values greater than 0 in the waitlist columns on the “Register/Search for Classes” web page in BOSS. The column headings are WL Cap (waitlist capacity), WL Act (current students on the waitlist), and WL Rem (waitlist slots remaining) and show up just to the left of the instructor column.
If a course has a waitlist, and a student currently enrolled drops that course or the department raises the class limit, the next eligible student on the waitlist is notified ONLY by an email sent to their UA Little Rock email address. The email will inform the student a seat is now open, and give the student a specific length of time (usually 24 hours) in which to log onto BOSS and register for the course. If the student does not register within that period, their name is removed from the waitlist, and the next eligible student is notified.
Procedure for Getting on a Waitlist:
Waitlist Messages:
Please Note: All holds must be cleared and registration requirements must be met before entering a waitlist.
Courses Which Have Co-requisites:
Students enrolling in courses that have a co-requisite, e.g. separate Biology lecture and lab courses, or Chemistry lecture and lab courses must enroll in both courses at the same time, for BOSS to recognize the co-requisite. Therefore, students may not enroll in a lecture but only waitlist for the lab. In order to waitlist a co-requisite course, the student must first be fully enrolled in the pair of courses, to meet the co-requisite requirements, THEN waitlist the desired course.
Procedure for Removing Yourself from a Waitlist:
Procedure for Moving from a Waitlist to Registered in the Class:
Waitlist Protocols:
Drop
Removing one or more (but not all) courses from your academic schedule or specific part of the term is considered dropping a course. All course drops must be completed in BOSS. A grade of “W” will be received after the registration adjustment period has ended.
Withdrawal
Removing all courses from your academic schedule or a specific part of the term is considered a withdrawal. A grade of “W” will be received for the final course from which you withdraw during the late registration/adjustment period and for all courses you withdraw from after the late registration period has ended.
How do I Drop/Withdraw?
You must make your request through BOSS. Drop/Withdrawal requests made through email or phone will not be accepted.
Financial Aid
Dropping or withdrawing can impact your financial aid. To determine exactly how it could affect your aid you should contact the Office of Financial Aid.
Drop/Withdraw Request
Further information can be found at Add, Drop, and Course Withdrawal.
These are common errors you might encounter in BOSS. You can always contact our office with any BOSS registration problems.
Advising Flag: You must be advised to have this flag removed.
Link Error: You must be registered in both a lecture and a lab for a particular course. Some common examples of this error are found here. To resolve this you must do one of the following:
Time Conflict: The course you are attempting to enroll in meets at the same time as another course in which you are enrolled. You will need to make adjustments to your schedule if you want to register for this new course.
No Timeticket: You are not able to register at this time. This could mean one of three things:
Level Restriction: You must be of the appropriate level to take this course. For example, Graduates may not take Undergraduate level courses. Undergraduates or Post-Baccalaureates may not take Graduate level courses. In order to take a course whose level is outside yours you must speak with the Graduate school. Post-Baccalaureates who receive this error while attempting to take an Undergraduate course should call the Office of Records and Registration.
Classification (Class) Restriction: If you are an Undergraduate you must be of the appropriate class to take certain courses. A Freshman may not take certain Sophomore, Junior, or Senior level courses. Sophomores may not take certain Junior or Senior level courses. Juniors may not take certain Senior level courses. In order to take a course outside of your class you must contact the department offering the class to obtain permission to take this course.
Prerequisite (PreReq)/Test Score: You may not take a course that has a prerequisite if you have not fulfilled, either by successfully completing or testing out of, that course’s prerequisites. If you feel you have met all of the prerequisites for a course you may contact the department offering the course you wish to take.
Duplicate CRN: If you receive this error contact the Office of Records and Registration.
If you wish to audit a course, you will first have to register for it “normally.” After you have successfully registered, click on the word Normal listed under the grade mode of your course. This will take you to the Select Audit Mode page. If the word Normal cannot be clicked then the course is not available for audit.
You may also choose Select Audit Mode from the Registration menu of your BOSS account to audit a course.
Once on the Select Audit Mode page, all of the courses you are registered for will appear. If you see that the grade mode for a course is in a drop-down menu then that course can be audited. To do so, select Audit from the drop-down menu and click the Submit Changes button.
If you should change your mind about auditing a course you may follow the same process outlined above to change the grade mode back to its default setting.
You must have the professor’s approval to audit a course
You may not change your grade mode after the last day of late registration
When auditing a course you will receive a grade of “AU” regardless of how well or how poorly you did
After you have been admitted, advised, and registered for classes, be sure to accept any financial aid awards, apply for scholarships, apply for housing if needed, get your textbooks, and more. Undergraduate students can look at our Quick Guide for more information. Remember that the earlier you apply for scholarships, the better.
It’s very important to view the payment deadlines so that you are not dropped from your courses. Visit Student Accounts to set up a payment plan if needed.
