<p>How hard is it? It'd make scheduling much less stressful. Thanks!</p>
<p>I hear it’s extraordinarily difficult.</p>
<p>Really :(? I heard you just needed to have under 130 units and it’d be ok.</p>
<p>idk, my friend tried to do it to complete his minor and they wouldn’t let him.</p>
<p>If you have 130 or less units they will automatically give you a reg date for another semester. Just check with counselors to be sure there are no holds or anything in cause they assume you we’re graduating. Next semester will be my 5th semester as a transfer.</p>
<p>The extra semester beyond THAT one is hard to get.</p>
<p>Do those 130 units include AP/Community College units, or only UC Berkeley units?</p>
<p>This is what my understanding is: Student is allowed to enroll in 9th semester only if unit ceiling of 130, for someone who has declared one major, is not exceeded. If student’s accumulated unit count is 130 or less, student is allowed to enroll in 9th semester regardless of how many units the student take in 9th semester. </p>
<p>Please also note the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unit ceiling for the students with 2 declared majors is 136.</li>
<li>Only fall and spring semesters are counted and summer semesters are not counted.</li>
<li>Transfer students with one major is allowed 4 semesters and students with 2 declared majors are allowed 5 semesters.</li>
<li>Only units earned at Cal are counted towards unit maximum ceiling and not any AP, or community college course credits student may have transferred.</li>
</ul>
<p>There is an appeal process in place to request permission to extend enrollment beyond these limits. It is said that those permissions are rarely granted and only under extremely unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>For L&S, the unit ceiling rules are here: [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Unit Ceiling](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html)</p>
<p>Note that AP credit and community college units after accruing 70 units of college work do not count against the unit ceiling: [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Deductible Units](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/deductible.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/deductible.html)</p>
<p>Other divisions (e.g. CoC, CoE, Haas, CED, CNR) have their own rules about semester or unit limits.</p>
<p>So if I was a spring admit and I took community college courses the semester before I came to Berkeley, those would count for my unit ceiling?</p>
<p>yeah im glad im not spring admit otherwise id be here an extra 2 years and i wont get job</p>
<p>I’ve gotten confusing info from the L&S Advising at Evans. Once, over phone, they said that the unit ceiling is 130 (single major) and 136 (double major), period. However, in person with another counselor, they assured me that actually the rule was that you had to spend 8 semesters here (or 4 if you’re a transfer), but you can take as many units as you wanted (as long as you get permission). So, you can take as many units as you want as long as you do it within 8 semesters…don’t know why I got conflicting info :/</p>
<p>It is not conflicting info. [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Unit Ceiling](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html) says that the 130/136 unit ceiling applies only if you will take more than 8 semesters (4 for junior transfers).</p>
<p>Based on [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Deductible Units](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/deductible.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/deductible.html) , spring admits’ fall CC courses do count toward the unit ceiling. But they should not count toward the 8 semesters, since they were not at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Example, in 2009, you were admitted to start in spring 2010. You took CC courses in fall 2009 and started at Berkeley in spring 2010, attending Berkeley every fall and spring semester since then. In this case, fall 2013 would be your eighth semester; for any semesters beyond that, you would have to worry about the unit ceiling, including the fall 2009 CC course units.</p>
<p>Remember that divisions other than L&S (CoC, CoE, Haas, CNR, CED) have different rules; the above apply to L&S.</p>