Should I attend Freshman Edge summer courses

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I am a newly admitted engineering student. </p>

<p>Today I received an email from ESS which contains the following sentences:
We strongly discourage new freshmen engineering students from taking summer courses this summer (including those at Cal).
While we understand the desire to "get ahead", the established plan for your major is designed to be completed in four years without the need to take summer classes this year </p>

<p>I have already enrolled in summer Freshman Edge courses and paid the advance payment of summer housing. Do I need to cancel my registration?
I'm wondering is there any serious bad effects of "getting ahead". I want to complete lower division courses as early as possible which may help me engage in research or graduate
earlier. What do you suggest?</p>

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<p>I’m in the exact same situation.</p>

<p>But I’m not gonna cancel my registration.</p>

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<p>Do you know whether the Freshman Edge grades will be factored into the fall GPA?</p>

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<p>they will be part of your transcript and Cal GPA. You are taking courses that count, the same as if you were in a regular semester and took those classes</p>

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<p>However, they are reported as grades taken in Summer 2011, not Fall. They form your summer GPA, the fall classes will form your fall GPA, and each semester you also have a running cumulative GPA that began with these summer courses and keeps having the additional coursework of subsequent semesters added to it.</p>