Good afternoon,
This email is a reminder of upcoming deadlines and information about visiting high school students.
Deadlines
- Friday, November 15: Deadline for departments to submit (in CourseLeaf CLSS) the first slate of summer 2025 course offerings to Deans’ offices. Deadline for departments to submit requests to OTR for exceptions to approved Summer Session/Block dates; this includes any requests for international travel and/or graduate courses that are not housed in Sessions I, Full Session, Internship, Block A1, Block B1, Block C1, Block D1, Block E1, Block B2, or Block C2.
- Thursday, December 5: Deadline for the first slate of proposed summer 2025 course offerings to be reviewed by Deans’ offices and approved/rejected in CourseLeaf CLSS workflow.
- Friday, December 6: Submitted Summer 2025 Course Schedule available in CourseLeaf CLSS for departments and Deans’ offices to review for all classes. Summer 2025 Course Schedule formally posted on courses.rice.edu. Summer 2025 registration officially opens in ESTHER. Admission and registration process for (summer 2025) visiting students officially opens (for visiting students, including visiting online and visiting high school students, to apply for Rice visiting student status). Registration is contingent on admission.
Visiting High School Students
In order for a visiting high school student to register for a Summer 2025 class:
- The student must be approved to take courses through an application process managed by OTR.
- The course requested must be designated in CourseLeaf CLSS as eligible for high school students. (See below for processing information.)
How to Request a Course be Eligible for Visiting High School Students
First, you will need to poll your instructors to inquire if they will allow Visiting High School Students into the course. If you submit a request, we will assume that you have already done this and that they have agreed.
The rest of the process will be handled entirely within CLSS.
Open (or create) a section that you would like to allow Visiting High School Students to be able to take
- Click the pencil icon next to Section Attributes
- Click the green plus symbol
- Using the dropdown, select “High School VS Eligible”
- Click “Accept”
- Place any pre-requisites a high school student may need to successfully complete the course in the Comments section
- Submit the section through workflow as you normally would
- The course will be routed through all necessary workflow approvals
IMPORTANT: Once a course is approved to be eligible for Visiting High School students, it cannot be removed from the approval list.
Additional Information
More information about Summer 2025 Course Scheduling is available here.
Thank you,
Office of the Registrar
