Admissions Office

How to Register

1. Trial Schedule Approval

If you’re a new student, transferring from another college or haven’t passed all three parts of the Texas Success Initiative (TSI), your trial schedule must be approved by a counselor or a division chair before you can register.

Where can these people be found? In the Counseling Center downstairs in the Administration Building. (That’s the big glass building.) It’s best to get this done before regular registration begins, but if you miss the beginning of regular registration and you still haven’t completed your trial schedule, the counselors and division chairs will be on hand in the Counseling Center during registration.

If you are TSI exempt or have passed all three parts, you may complete your own schedule without the counselors’ help; however, if you decide to prepare your own schedule, you are also taking on the full responsibility for the course prerequisites and transferability to other colleges or universities.

2. Register in the Admissions Office

After you get your trial schedule approved, take it to the Admissions Office (also downstairs in the Administration Building), and they’ll register you.

If you are a new TC student, you must turn in a completed admissions application at or before the time of registration. If you are a returning TC student, you must fill out an update sheet in the Admissions Office when you register. Also, if you’re new at Texarkana College, you have to turn in an official transcript from the last school you attended (whether it is another college or a high school) or your GED certificate if that applies.

If you’ve been a Texarkana College student before and owe library or parking fines or have any other type "hold" on your record, you won’t be allowed to register until you clear up the matter.

3. Pay your tuition in the Business Office

The last part of registering is paying your tuition in the Business Office. (That’s also in the Administration Building, but it’s upstairs.)

You aren’t considered officially registered until you’ve paid and received a processed schedule from the Business Office. During regular registration, tuition must be paid on the same day or your registration will be cancelled at closing time.

Also, if you’re receiving scholarships or financial aid, go by and check with the Financial Aid Office before you pay your tuition. (This is in the Administration Building, too. It’s part of the Dean of Student’s Office on the first floor.) Then, after your schedule is processed, check to make sure the course numbers and sections are correct.

This page last updated 4/30/2004