<p>How easy/hard is it to move from College of Natural Resources to L&S? Also, what do you think go the substance free dorm --Freeborn Hall, I believe it’s called? Thanks!</p>
<p>how many classes should a frehsmen take int he first semester? 4? </p>
<p>Changing into L&S is described here:
<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/changeofcollege.html”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/changeofcollege.html</a></p>
<p>A normal course load is 15 units per semester, so that 8 semesters will get you to the 120 units needed for graduation. Most courses are 4 units, so 4 courses per semester (not including low unit courses like 0.5 unit PE courses, 1 unit seminars for some majors’ frosh, etc.) is typical. Be careful about taking too many courses with labs, large projects, art studio, music performance, or other high work features.</p>
<p>The nominal workload is 3 hours per week per unit, including both in-class and out-of-class time, so a 15 unit course load nominally should take 45 hours per week (this is the nominal time anywhere). However, actual time spent on course work these days appears to be somewhat less (overall, not at any specific school).</p>
<p>For double majors that have moderate overlap (4-5 courses), how many courses per semester do students typically take? Still 4, or do they have to take more during some semesters?</p>
<p>Is it practical for students having transerrable credits to transfer in to Haas the 2nd year and finish undergraduate study in 3 years? Would love to hear from anyone with credit transfer experience and how it impacts the length of study as Cal, and Hass more specifically. (I will have 4 GCE A-level certificates before the school starts, hopefully worth 20-30 semester credits).</p>
<p>Can you live in a fraternity house as a freshman?</p>
<p>Can someone explain what units are and how many units are in one course? Sorry if this is a really dumb question…</p>
<p>Also, can someone tell me the process of getting an impacted/ capped major? I know you have to complete the prereqs but there’s an application process. Do they primarily look at your GPA for this? Thanks!</p>
<p>Well…this probably isn’t the kind of question you expected, but how would I go about turning down my offer of admission from Cal? I’ve scoured the entire portal and can’t seem to find anything. I’m sleep-deprived right now, so I apologize in advance if it turns out to be right on the admissions letter or something, haha.</p>
<p>Thanks for doing this, by the way! This thread is a really good resource for prospective students, and it’d be great if students on CC from other schools did something like this long-term as well. Berkeley is such an incredible institution and I’m honored to have been given the chance to attend. Best of luck, Golden Bears!! </p>
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<p>Units are an indication of the time per week needed in that particular class. I forgot the exact conversion but it’s about 3-4 hours per week per unit. The amount of units vary but normal classes are about 3-4 units per class. Language classes tend to be 5 units per class. I’ve found that that number is not entirely accurate. For example, I’ve heard that E45 is only 3 units but is a ton of work. BioE 168L is only 3 units as well, but is also a ton of work (way more than a 3 unit class should be). In order to get the true workload amount, you really just need to ask around. Peer advisers (at the engineering student services at least) would be a great resource for just that.</p>
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<p>Sprint worked amazingly well for me.</p>
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<p>I think that it depends on the major. This is just my personal opinion, but in my major (BioE), people were very nice and generally very willing to help each other out. I do have a few stories concerning some intensely competitive people in my major, though. For example, one person purposely distracted me once so she could take a look at my answers to a homework set. However, those kind of people do not make up the majority.</p>
<p>One thing that is worth considering is the rigor of the courses. In respect to private peer institutions, we have less grade inflation. I don’t know what major you’re going into, but I know that law schools and medical schools don’t look at gpa in respect to the undergraduate institution which can negatively impact your admission chances. Graduate schools (for PhD, MA degrees) do look at your gpa in respect to your undergraduate institution. Once you get below the 3.5 gpa level though, your chances do start to decrease even though you may be very bright and hardworking. If you want to go to graduate school and feel like you can perform well at Berkeley, I’d recommend that you go for it! Berkeley is a wonderful place especially for engineering, and I did enjoy being in that kind of community. However, if you don’t feel as confident in your abilities, it may be safer to go to a less rigorous place and do well.</p>
<p>My son is interested in computer science major (BA as he is admitted to L&S) and Environmental Engineering major. Is this possible at Cal?
Could he take classes offered by Engineering Department even though he is in L&S?</p>
<p>What classes should he sign up for during CALSO?</p>
<p>USC Trustee or UC Regents at Berkeley? I’d be a premed student interested in creative writing and international studis (korea)
*objective is to attend brown alpert medical school
*finances are not a major factor due to familial income</p>
<p>What would be the best residence hall given that I am intending to major in Computer Science (L&S)? I’m thinking about the distance to classes and such.</p>
<p>What is signing up for classes like? Do you have to be hitting F5 as soon as registration opens for classes like CS61A/B? How fast do those kinds of classes fill up?</p>
<p>Hey you guys, I was wondering if I can change my major as an accepted freshman. I applied as a psychology major but would like to change to bio (IB) or something related. </p>
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<p>Both EECS majors and intending CS majors in L&S get priority registration for CS 61A/B/C and CS 70 (according to an info session) so it’ll be easy to get those classes in particular if they are prereqs in your major (ie CS/EECS). Also, I think you register for your classes at CalSO. </p>
<p>Do you know about signing up for a dorm with a particular roommate in mind? If you both write each other with same choices, do they generally put you together?</p>
<p>@Intelligentsia - Foothill is the closest to Soda (CS), Cory (EE), and other engineering buildings, and a lot of STEM majors choose to live there. But as a freshman, you’ll have classes all over campus and end up walking all around anyways. There are a couple big auditoriums scattered around campus, and EE/CS classes tend to take over wherever they can find space. So, it won’t really matter where you live. 
I’m in unit 2 now (i was an EECS transfer) and it takes ~20 minutes to walk to the far corners of campus, which isn’t too terrible. You get a lot of exercise, at least.</p>
<p>@AntiEntropy - The lower div CS classes tend to be pretty good at expanding to fit everyone in, but to be on the safe side you should probably grab the CS class you need during phase 1. Also, saying this because you mention A/B, you should really take A before B, and from personal experience taking them together really sucks… so don’t do that if you don’t have to.
Also, helpful link on CS enrollment: <a href=“Getting Into Computer Science Classes - Google Docs”>Getting Into Computer Science Classes - Google Docs;
<p>@victor101 - It looks like both are in L&S, so you shouldn’t have any trouble changing to it! If the majors you’re considering are in a different college, then you’ll need to look into change of major… but for L&S, all students are admitted undeclared.</p>
<p>@collegetime18 - If you both request each other, you should be good to go!</p>
<p>The Berkeley app is telling me that I need to send AP Scores by July 1. How is this possible when the May AP exams release scores after that? Do I have to check the box to send all scores to Berkeley as soon as they are available automatically? That sounds kind of risky.</p>