Priority registration allows you to register earlier so you can get into courses before they fill up. To be eligible, you must participate in orientation, complete the placement process for math and English or ESL, and develop an educational plan.
This process will help you to clearly define your goals, stay on track, and take the most direct route from start to finish. If you are in a degree or certificate program or planning to transfer to a four-year university, achieving and maintaining priority registration is a crucial part of getting into the courses you need to reach your goals.
Find Your Registration Date
Your registration dates and times are listed in InSite under the Registration tile. A general list of dates can also be found in the list of Important Dates & Deadlines by term. Students may register for classes until midnight the day before the class begins.
Registration Groups
At DVC, students are eligible to register for classes in the following order.
- Group 1: Priority registration:
- EOPS
- CalWorks
- Foster Youth
- Disabled Student Services
- Veterans
- Homeless Youth/Former Homeless Youth
- Students with dependent children under 18
- Group 2: Note takers, early graduation, athletes
- Group 3A: Continuing students with 45-75 units
- Group 3B: Continuing with 0-44.99 units and CCAP dual enrollment high school students
- Group 3C: Recent high school graduates who have completed orientation, placement and educational planning
- Group 3D: Continuing students with 75.01-99 units
- Group 3E: New students who have completed orientation, placement and educational planning, and returning students with less than 100 units
- Group 4: Continuing and returning students over 100 degree applicable units or on second semester probation/dismissal
- Group 5: New students who have not completed orientation, placement and educational planning
- Group 6: Concurrent high school students
- Group 7: All regular college students open/walk-in registration