Enrollment, Scheduling & Placement Help

Students that would like to enroll in a waitlisted section of a course should attempt to enroll in an open section of the course if possible. Otherwise, enrolling on the waitlist is the next best route to take. Note that waitlisting for a course does not guarantee enrollment; the only guarantee to enroll in a course is to enroll in an open section. Students are expected to check their emails daily to check if they have been given permission to enroll off of the waitlist, as waitlist permissions do expire after a certain time.

If you are in need of enrolling in a closed/waitlisted section, as that is the only one that works in your schedule, then please contact  placement@math.wisc.edu to see if anything can be done to help you enroll.

Retaking the placement test is an option if a student thinks their current scores do not accurately represent their knowledge of the material. Except in the case of course credit, there is no exception to math course placement.

Please see our information on retaking for more details.

Students should submit any syllabi that they’d like to have reevaluated via the Course Reevaluation Request form. Notes:

1. You must submit the syllabi from the semester/term in which you took the course.
2. The form only takes in one syllabus at a time.
3. You may wish to submit all sequential math courses for review even if you are receiving transfer credit for one or more of them.
   1. For example: You have taken a Calculus I and Calculus II course at your previous institution. Calculus I transferred as MATH 221, but Calculus II transferred as electives. You should submit BOTH your Calculus I and Calculus II syllabi for review, as it may be the case that the combination of both courses are equivalent to our MATH 221 and 222.

For assistance in deciding which syllabi to submit, or for enrollment in mathematics courses in general, please email  placement@math.wisc.edu to ask for some help.

There are a few reasons for why your credit is not appearing, which may include:

• An updated transcript was not received by the Office of Admissions with your math course on it;
• Your AP/IB/A-Level exam scores were not received by UW-Madison in time for your SOAR appointment;
• Your transcripts were very recently received and the credit has not been posted yet;
• If you took the course as a high school student and did not enroll in it for college-level credit, we cannot grant college credit for the course and so credit will not be posted;
• A mistake was made, and the credit hasn’t been posted yet.

The first step should be to contact the UW-Madison Office of Admissions to inquire about why your credit has not been posted yet.

If you are looking to enroll in a math course: if you have unofficial college (i.e., not high school) transcripts with the course(s) reflected on it, or if you have unofficial score reports for AP/IB/A-Level exams, please attach these as PDFs in an email to placement@math.wisc.edu with a brief summary of your situation. In general, once we see evidence that transfer credit will be granted then we can grant permission for immediate enrollment into the appropriate coursework while you work on getting the credit posted.

Information on downloading an AP score report can be found here.

No. We must have verification that the course in question was taken and passed. Here are the steps that should be completed in order to request enrollment permission for subsequent math coursework:

1. Complete the course. After the course has been completed and a final grade has been posted, please send your unofficial transcript (i.e., not a grade report) in PDF form to placement@math.wisc.edu with a brief overview of your situation, as well as a reminder of what math course you need permission for.
2. Keep an eye out for an email from someone in the Math Department with information on enrollment. Permission could take a day or two, so please be patient.

Do keep in mind that other departments may have different policies on this.