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The Courseplan onboarding wizard runs the first time you sign in, and again whenever you choose Edit Profile from the navigation bar. It collects your academic identity—entrance and graduation dates, college, major, minor, transfer exam scores, and swimming test status—and uses that data to populate the requirements sidebar with the exact rules that apply to your degree. Completing it accurately is the single most important step for getting useful requirement tracking. The wizard has three pages that you navigate with Next and Previous buttons. A progress timeline at the bottom of the modal shows which step you are on. You cannot advance past the first page until all required fields are filled in.
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Step 1 — Basic information

The first page collects your name, academic dates, and degree program.Your nameEnter your first name, optional middle name, and last name. These are displayed in the dashboard header and stored with your account.Entrance and graduation semestersSelect the season (Fall, Spring, Summer, or Winter) and year for both your entrance semester and expected graduation semester. The entrance year drives the semester grid—Courseplan generates one semester card per term from entrance through graduation.
The graduation year dropdown is filtered to show only plausible years relative to your entrance year. If you change your entrance year, any graduation year that is no longer valid is cleared automatically.
New users default to Fall for entrance season and Spring for graduation season. You can change both to any season Cornell offers.College and majorSelect your undergraduate college from the dropdown. The available options are the eight Cornell undergraduate colleges:
AcronymCollege
AGCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
ARCollege of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP)
ASCollege of Arts and Sciences (A&S)
BUSC Johnson College of Business (Dyson / Hotel)
ENCollege of Engineering
HECollege of Human Ecology
ILSchool of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR)
After selecting a college, the major dropdown populates with majors offered by that college. Use + another major to add a second major if you are double-majoring. Selecting a different college clears any major that does not belong to the new college.MinorAdd one or more minors using the minor dropdown. Minors are available once you have selected a college. Use + another minor to add additional minors.
If your major or minor does not appear in the list, Courseplan may not yet have requirement data for it. A link to a sign-up form for updates is shown in the dropdown.
Graduate degree (optional)If you are enrolled in a combined undergraduate/graduate program, select your graduate program from the Program dropdown. Graduate-only users who skip the college field will bypass the transfer credits page entirely.
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Step 2 — Transfer credits

The second page collects optional information about credits you are bringing into Cornell from standardized exams and the swimming test. This page is skipped for graduate-only users.Cornell swimming testToggle whether you have passed the Cornell swimming test. Students who pass the test satisfy a physical education requirement tracked in Courseplan.AP exam creditsFor each AP exam you took, select the subject and your score. Courseplan maps AP scores to Cornell course equivalents using the following subjects:
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science A
  • English Language and Composition
  • English Literature and Composition
  • French Language / French Literature
  • Italian Language / Italian Literature
  • Macroeconomics
  • Mathematics AB
  • Mathematics BC (Engineering)
  • Mathematics BC (Non-Engineering)
  • Microeconomics
  • Physics I / Physics II
  • Physics C-Mechanics
  • Physics C-Electricity & Magnetism
  • Psychology
  • Spanish Language / Spanish Literature
  • Statistics
Scores of 4 or 5 (depending on subject) map to specific Cornell courses such as CS 1110, MATH 1910, ECON 1110, or PHYS 1112. The exact course equivalents vary by college.Use + Add AP Exam to enter multiple exams.IB exam creditsIB Higher Level exams with a score of 6 or 7 map to Cornell course equivalents. Supported IB subjects include:
  • Chemical and Physical Systems
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Economics
  • English Language and Literature / English Literature A
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Science
  • Physics
CASE exam creditsThe Cornell Advanced Standing Examination (CASE) program allows students to earn credit for specific Cornell courses by passing an exam administered by the department. Supported CASE exams are:
  • French (scores: Q, Q+, Q++)
  • MATH 1910 (score: Pass)
  • PHYS 1112 (score: Pass)
Some transfer credits may be mapped incorrectly to requirements due to ongoing data quality work. Double-check your transfer credit application against the registrar’s official records.
Credit totalA running total of transfer credits is displayed at the bottom of the page as you add exams.
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Step 3 — Review

The review page shows a read-only summary of everything you entered across both previous steps, organized into two sections:Basic informationDisplays your name, entrance season and year, graduation season and year, college, major(s), minor(s), and graduate program. An edit icon next to the section heading jumps you back to step 1 if you need to make corrections.Transfer creditsShows your swimming test answer, a table of AP and IB exam subjects and scores, and the total credit count. An edit icon next to the section heading jumps you back to step 2.When everything looks correct, click Finish. Courseplan saves your profile, populates your semester grid with semesters from entrance to graduation, and closes the wizard. The requirements sidebar will be populated immediately with your degree’s requirement tree.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Open the profile menu in the navigation bar and select Edit Profile to reopen the onboarding wizard. Changing your college or major updates the requirements sidebar immediately after you click Finish. Your semesters and courses are preserved—only the requirement mapping changes.
Arts & Sciences (AS) has two sets of college requirements depending on your entrance semester. Students who entered before Fall 2020 are automatically assigned the pre-Fall 2020 requirements (internally AS1). Students who entered in Fall 2020 or later are assigned the current requirements (internally AS2). Courseplan determines which set to apply based on the entrance year and season you provide—you do not need to choose manually.
The major dropdown only shows programs for which Courseplan has requirement data. If your major is missing, Courseplan may not yet support it. A link in the dropdown leads to a sign-up form where you can request that your major be added.
The onboarding wizard only handles AP, IB, and CASE exam credits. For courses taken at another college or university, add the equivalent Cornell course directly to the appropriate semester in the semester grid after completing onboarding. The Cornell Transfer Credit website has guidance on which Cornell courses external coursework maps to.
Yes. You can select both a college and major (undergraduate) and a graduate program on the same onboarding profile. If you only select a graduate program with no college, the transfer credits step is skipped and the requirements sidebar will show only graduate program requirements.
The graduation semester you select determines the last semester card shown in the semester grid. Courseplan generates one card for every term (Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter as applicable) between your entrance and graduation semesters. If you extend your graduation date later, additional semester cards are added automatically.

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