Registrar

Information About Our Forms

Roadmaps to Graduation

Review the Roadmaps to Graduation to ensure you are on track to graduate here. (AU login required). These forms are also available at the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Independent Study

Request permission to engage in supervised research with a currently appointed faculty member in an area of interest.

*If you are writing a paper for your independent study contract that will also satisfy the Upper-Level Writing Requirement, your independent study must be at least 2 credits.

This form must be submitted no later than one week after the end of the add/drop period to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Request for Overload

This form is used to request permission to increase your semester credit hour maximum.

If you are a part-time student, you can request to take 12 or more credits.

If you are a full-time student, you can request to take 17 credits.

Please submit to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

ULWR Certification

Unless the Office of the Registrar receives this signed form, your record will not reflect that you have satisfied this graduation requirement. Read the Upper-Level Writing Requirement policy here.

*If you satisfied this requirement by writing a paper for an independent study, you still need to submit this form.

Once the form is signed, please return to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Divisional Shift Request

For students who wish to transfer from the full-time to the part-time division, or from part-time to full-time. Please read our policy on divisional shifts.

Please submit this  form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Add/Drop

Please read about our policy regarding adding and dropping courses after the add/drop period has ended.

To submit an add/drop request, please return this signed form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

If you are looking to register for externship fieldwork credits, do so by submitting an application to the Externship Office.

Exam Deferral Request Form

Please read about our policy regarding exam deferrals.

To submit an exam deferral request, please return this signed form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Once you log in to MyWCL, look under the Documents section on the right hand side of the page.

Study Elsewhere for WCL Credit

If you wish to visit another school for a semester and want those credits counted toward your JD at AUWCL. Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Degree Audit

If you would like to know your graduation requirements status - the nuts and bolts of where you are on your Roadmap to Graduation.

Please indicate if you any specific questions, such as residency. Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Request for Certification

If you are a current student in need of a letter of enrollment for parking reciprocity, insurance, housing, loan deferment, etc, please use this form.

If you have graduated and wish to receive a letter verifying your degree conferral, use this form.

Please return to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Externship Contract

For students interested in receiving academic credit for substantive legal work. You will submit an application through the Externship Office.

This will generate a form that you and someone from the Externship Office will sign.

Once all signatures have been obtained, submit this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Transfer Letter of Good Standing

To request a letter of good standing to send for transfer purposes you must first meet with the Office of Student Affairs. Once that meeting has occurred, request a letter of good standing from the Office of the Registrar by submitting this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu.

Indicate the names and email addresses (or mailing addresses) of the schools to which you are applying.

Please allow up to three business days to process your request. We do not send confirmation that letters have been sent. We recommend that after 7 businesses days from the date of request you contact the school to which you are applying to confirm receipt.

**We hope that you will continue your studies at WCL, but if you ultimately decide to transfer, please fill out the form titled "Withdraw From ALL Classes" on this page and submit it to our office.

You will be notified that we have received your request and you will be withdrawn from WCL once your final grades have been posted.

Study Abroad for WCL Credit

For students who wish to visit a foreign school for a semester and want their credits counted toward their JD at AUWCL. Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Release Educational Info To A Third Party

To confirm information about your record, ranking, or other educational information (whether to a third party or to yourself). Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101).

Personal Data Change (Name, SSN, Gender)

Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101) along with photo identification and/or legal documents confirming the change(s) requested. Without photo id/legal documentation your request will be denied. 

Withdraw From ALL Classes

Please return this form to registrationservices@wcl.american.edu or the Office of the Registrar (C101) if you have decided to take a leave of absence, withdraw from the school, or transfer to a different school.