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DARS/Students - Request a 'What-If' DARS audit for major/certificate not declared
Overview
What-if DARS audits are used when a student wants to run courses through a major/certificate/additional major that they have not yet declared.
For information on how to access the DARS request page within Course Search & Enroll app, see DARS/Students - Start the DARS audit request process.
How-To Video
To learn how to read a DARS audit report, reference DARS/Students - Read a DARS audit report.
Step-by-Step
Step 1
Go to the "'What-if' Audit" section of the request page:
Step 2
Select "Run new 'what if' audit."
Step 3
Select the appropriate School, College or Population.
Step 4
Select the appropriate Academic Plan/Program from the drop-down menu.
Step 5
Choose the appropriate audit settings. You can choose to include:
- Previous, current, future, and planned terms: Includes courses already completed, enrolled courses that are in progress, enrolled courses that have not started, and courses in the degree planner from future terms that are not enrolled.
- Previous, current, and future terms: Includes courses already completed, enrolled courses that are in progress, and enrolled courses that have not started.
- Previous and current terms: Includes courses already completed and enrolled courses that are in progress.
- Previous terms: Includes courses already completed.
Step 6
For a "What-if" audit, you may also choose:
- to keep or change Honors status (available for some schools/colleges); and
- to select a Degree Plan from your own Degree Planner if you're wanting to view planned terms in the "What-if" audit.
Step 7
After all audit settings are complete, click the "Next" button.
Step 8
If you selected to use planned courses, a prompt to select credits for variable credit planned courses will appear:
Step 9
To change audit settings, select the "Back" button.
Step 10
To request your "what-if" audit, select "Request audit" button.
Step 11
While waiting for your audit to process, you will see "Audit in Progress" in the status column:
Step 12
To view the completed audit, select the "View" button:
Step 13
To download a PDF version of the completed audit, select the "download" icon: