<p>For the first round of telebears</p>
<p>First choices:
Pol Sci 005
Pol Sci 179
Rhetor R001A
(9 units total)</p>
<p>Second Choices:
Anthro 003AC
Astron 10
Sociol 001</p>
<p>Alternatives:
Econ 001
Philos 003
Physics C010</p>
<p>How does it look? By the end of June, will any of these classes still be open? Does this look good for a fall freshmen for some intro classes? Any help is appreciated!</p>
<p>I had a late June Calso last summer (just checked my cal ID, it was issued on June 29th!). I signed up for Poli Sci 5 and if I remember correctly there were many many seats still available in Phase 1. Not sure how your R1A class will be. Those fill very quickly because the university, maddeningly, cut a ton of R&C classes but still expects you to get them done in a timely manner. And, even if PS 179 is full, get on the waitlist. It moves pretty quickly and you’re very likely to get in. Also, I took Astro C10 in the fall of my freshman year, but I Phase 2’d it. You should be fine.</p>
<p>Pol Sci 5 - 143 of 299 seats open
Pol Sci 179 - 366 of 712 seats open
rhet R1A - almost all seats open of about 200 total</p>
<p>anthro 3AC - 292 of 390 seats open
astro 10 - did you mean to take astro C10 - Filippenko? 527 of 590 open in c10,
popular phys science breadth but also amazing professor
soc 1 - 248 of 320 open BUT has allocations by grade level</p>
<p>econ 1 - 253 of 720 open BUT many categories, likely will fill first
Phil 3 - 66 of 100 open
phys c10 - 134 of 192 open, popular class easy phys science breadth</p>
<p>All except Pol Sci 179 are lower division (generally for freshmen and sophomores) and most are early classes that will be mostly filled with freshmen. These are the ones that will change the most during CalSO registrations. Those classes that are well over half full already in these categories are likely to be filled. </p>
<p>A few have categories in telebears, where you can only get an open seat in a class if you match a category that is still open. As an example, Economics 1 has categories of
Instructor Approval; a Class Entry Code is required to enroll in these seats. (Open)
Students with a registration status of new or readmitted (Open)
Students in the College of Letters and Science (Full)
Students with a class level of Senior (Full)
Open seating (Open) </p>
<p>As you can see, seniors and those in the college of L&S who don’t match the new/readmitted category will only be able to waitlist at this point. Non-seniors from other colleges in Cal who are not new or readmitted will be able to register under the last (open seating) bucket. </p>
<p>The department sets up a number of seats in each category, after which it fills. This way they can cap the number of people in a certain category such that they don’t take all the space away from others they would like to see registered. Often this works by having a small supply of “open” seats and then another pool for students who are declared in a major that needs this class. The ‘open’ category fills quickly but then those in the major can still register for the class.</p>
<p>Rhetoric R&C are about the last to fill, having the reputation as harder work than other types of R&C and also harsher grading on the writing you submit. English and Rhetoric won’t fill as fast as German, Scandinavian and other popularly preferred R&C.</p>
<p>Thanks for the comments, keep them coming!</p>
<p>I didn’t know about the groupings in telebears, so that was good. And I actually heard good things about Rhetoric so hopefully it won’t kill me…but that does make me nervous.</p>
<p>Wait, so Econ 1 is a popular class? I fit in the new student category and I am going to be doing CalSO in mid-June… Will I still be able to get in the class? And I also have a friend who can’t go to CalSO, but is registering online after everyone is done… Will that class most likely be filled by then?</p>
<p>Also, I’m thinking of signing up for Math 16A and Astro C10… Do those classes fill up quickly too??</p>
<p>Oddly, there is an [Astronomy</a> 10](<a href=“http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Astronomy&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=10&x=0]Astronomy”>http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Astronomy&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=10&x=0) and an [Astronomy</a> C10](<a href=“http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Astronomy&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=c10&x=0]Astronomy”>http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Astronomy&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=c10&x=0) which are different courses (but with the same catalog description).</p>
<p>But [Letters</a> and Science C70U](<a href=“http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Letters+and+Science&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=c70u&x=0]Letters”>http://osoc.berkeley.edu/OSOC/osoc?y=0&p_term=FL&p_deptname=Letters+and+Science&p_classif=--+Choose+a+Course+Classification+--&p_presuf=--+Choose+a+Course+Prefix%2FSuffix+--&p_course=c70u&x=0) is the same course as Astronomy C10, but with separate scheduling buckets for the lecture and each discussion.</p>