HOW REGISTRATION APPOINTMENTS ARE DETERMINED
Registration appointments are assigned according to the following protocol:
1. For each registration period, seniority determines your registration day. Seniors register on
day 1, juniors on day 2, etc. Seniority is based on each student’s graduation year.
2. When students first enroll at CMC, we divide the entering class into quartiles called “priority
groups.” Priority groups are system-generated based on student ID numbers. Your priority
group determines the portion of the day during which you register and this priority group
sticks with you for your entire career at CMC. Priority groups rotate sequentially every
registration cycle. See the diagram below for an example.
3. Specific registration appointments within a priority group are randomly generated for
every registration cycle.
In the chart below, you can see how a student assigned to priority group one will rotate through
eight semesters of registration opportunities at CMC. In this case, the student goes first in the first
semester, second in the second semester, and so on. The cycle repeats after four semesters.
Freshman Fall
Group 1: early morning
Group 2: late morning
Group 3: early afternoon
Group 4: late afternoon
Junior Fall
Group 1: early morning
Group 2: late morning
Group 3: early afternoon
Group 4: late afternoon
Freshman Spring
Group 4: early morning
Group 1: late morning
Group 2: early afternoon
Group 3: late afternoon
Junior Spring
Group 4: early morning
Group 1: late morning
Group 2: early afternoon
Group 3: late afternoon
Sophomore Fall
Group 3: early morning
Group 4: late morning
Group 1: early
afternoon
Group 2: late afternoon
Senior Fall
Group 3: early morning
Group 4: late morning
Group 1: early
afternoon
Group 2: late afternoon
Sophomore Spring
Group 2: early morning
Group 3: late morning
Group 4: early afternoon
Group 1: late afternoon
Senior Spring
Group 2: early morning
Group 3: late morning
Group 4 : early afternoon
Group 1: late afternoon