<p>How many weeks there are per semester?</p>
<p>For example my winter and summer semesters are only 5 weeks. </p>
<p>Do the UCs know that?</p>
<p>semester is litterally supposed to be 6 months. Also, summer and winter aren’t called ‘semesters’ they’re called sessions. When there are semesters there are only ‘fall’ and ‘spring.’ All in all, the term semester’s pretty flexible. My brother is going to yale and says that they use 16 week ‘semesters.’</p>
<p>To answer your question… Maybe. Does it matter?</p>
<p>If your school uses coarse load as a measurement then yeah. If you are taking 15 units in 5 weeks, that would be equivalent to 18+ in a regular semester.</p>
<p>You mean in terms of the number of hours of instruction per week? Well, yeah. It’s supposed to be 1 hour per unit, per week for an 18 week semester, right? 15 units taken in five weeks would be like taking 45 units in a regular semester. If you really managed that, and got good marks, I would have talked about it in a personal statement.</p>
<p>Normally, CCCs cap units at 7 for Winter and Summer sessions for this reason. You could have petitioned for an exception to the cap, of course.</p>
<p>Do they even consider that? Seriously? I feel like they don’t. I took 12 units in a 5 week intersession and nabbed a 4.0 for that quarter (dumb classes, though - the critical thinking/writing requirement for English, Microecon for the social sciences IGETC, Sociology for the OTHER social sciences requirement, Philosophy for the humanities requirement - all 3 unit classes), but I feel like they’ll see the As and disregard the time constraints.</p>
<p>I think they’ll consider it, especially if you had poor grades in the past. When you explain it in a personal statement (actually, the additional comments section would probably be better for this) you say, “I’ve earned a 4.0 over my most recent 45 units, including the 12 that I completed during the five weeks of Winter 2011.”</p>