New Student Registration Days

Registering for classes is a really exciting prospect for incoming students. We’ve spent time asking each student about their preferences in their New Yellow Jacket Orientation & Pre-Advising Forms, and have utilized that information to pre-select two of their courses for the fall semester. On Registration Day, students will spend time with faculty advisors to add their final courses and round out their schedules.

Helpful notes:

• You’ll work one-on-one with faculty advisors during your registration session. This ensures you’ll have expert guidance as you search for your best fit classes.
• At the end of your one-on-one meeting, you should be registered for a minimum of 12 credits for the fall semester. 12 credit hours is considered full-time.
• All students should take courses that encourage exploration. This is true for both decided and undecided students.
• The courses you register for will count toward your graduation requirements and/or the 120 credit hour minimum required for graduation.
• After New Student Registration Day, you’ll have plenty of time to connect with your assigned academic advisor during Orientation in late August. This is the time you’ll begin to develop this very important relationship.

At the conclusion of their Registration Days, each student will have a full schedule for their fall semester. This schedule is purposefully designed to reflect the individual student interests. Each course will fulfill a requirement for the core curriculum (or Pillars), the student’s intended major, and/or count toward the 120 credit hours minimum required for graduation.

While this process is very intentional, we understand that some students may wish to make adjustments to their schedules ahead of the fall semester. Each student will be instructed on how to make changes to their schedules before they leave their Registration Day.

TWO IMPORTANT NOTES

• Students often find that initial questions they might have about a particular course are resolved once they learn a bit more information about the course itself. With that in mind, we strongly encourage students to remain curious and sit with their new schedules in these earliest days of summer, knowing they have plenty of time to make adjustments as needed prior to the start of the fall semester.
  
• If a student determines that changing a course is to their benefit, they may log in to MyMaconWeb and begin making schedule adjustments on or after July 1, 2026. Please note that any questions about schedule changes may be addressed at that time.

The Office of Advising Resources used your Yellow Jacket Orientation and Pre-Advising form to pre-select two courses. These courses will reflect your interest, anticipated major, and/or fulfill pillars within the RMC Curriculum. You will review those courses during your registration session and select additional courses totaling at least 12 credit hours.

No course list is necessary. You also do not need to be an expert on the RMC Curriculum or the majors/minors you are considering! Instead, take some time to review the RMC Curriculum and the requirements of the majors/minors you are considering. You can find major/minors and program requirements in the Academic Catalog (please use the side navigation in the Academic Catalog to see each program).

All students will complete two courses in one foreign language. RMC does not use placement tests. Instead, if a student would like to continue in the same language they took in high school, the Department of Modern Languages has already reviewed their application file to determine the best placement. Your placement will be available to you during registration.

Students with college credit for a modern language (that have not yet completed the foreign language requirement) will continue with the next course in the sequence.

Yellow Jacket Success Strategies 101 is a one-hour per week first year course. Satisfactory completion of YJSS 101 is required as part of the Four-Year Degree Guarantee. Through regular meetings with their academic advisor and a captain, the course provides students with the resources they need to get involved on campus, gain independence in transacting academic business, explore special academic and co-curricular programs, and learn what it takes to be successful at Randolph-Macon, both inside and outside the classroom. All first-years have been enrolled in a section of this course. The course is 1 credit hour and is graded S/U. 

You will declare your major by the end of your second year. If you are not sure about what you want to major in, it’s okay! Your first year is for experimenting and discovering who you are and where your interests lie. Take classes in areas of interest during your first year. This can assist you in discovering which direction you want to continue as you move into your second year.

It depends! The Registrar’s Office is only able to account for credits earned through AP/IB if there are official scores on record. At the time of registration, some students might not have all of their scores. That’s okay! Students should share a list of AP/IB tests they’ve completed (and feel they’ve done well) during their one-on-one advising appointment.

The same is true for Dual Enrollment (DE) coursework. Transfer credit can only be applied if the college that awarded the credit has sent an official transcript. Be sure to have your college transcripts sent to RMC.

And don’t worry – if credit arrives after you register and impacts your fall schedule, we will notify you.

Need to reset your password? Click the Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) at https://aka.ms/sspr. Install the Microsoft Mobile app on your phone and add your RMC email account.

Be sure your DUO is setup on the personal device you’ll have with you on your registration day. If you receive a new cell phone between initial Duo enrollment and June registration, you will need to re-sync the Duo Mobile app even if it’s the same line that’s tied to your phone’s hardware. Re-enroll or we can send you an SMS to sync your new phone to your Duo Mobile account.

iOS devices: choose RMC Wi-Fi, enter your RMC email address and password, and select ‘trust’ in the upper right corner.

Android devices 11.0 & higher: Google changed security options and all Android phones will need to be onboarded using directions here: https://tinyurl.com/r-mcgoeswireless

Android devices less than 11:0: Connect your Wi-Fi device to the network named ‘RMC’ – the network uses the following parameters:

• Network Security Type: WPA2-Enterprise (also called WPA2 with 802.1X authentication)
• Encryption Type: PEAP
• Phase 2 Authentication Type: MSCHAPv2
• For CA Certificate, select do not validate
• Identity: Enter your RMC email address and password
• You will need to forget the ‘RMC’ network after a password change and then reconnect using your new password