<p>LOL Mr. B., such a guarantee would really screw up a bunch of Juniors and Seniors who need to get the classes they couldn't get as Freshmen and Sophomores in order to graduate. :-) </p>
<p>Classes are overcrowded and understaffed, but I think that has more to do with budget cuts than anything else. One of my professors told me that the class I was in, an upper division class with 80 students, only three years ago had 30 students (and more sections). Sad. :-(
There is no way the UCs want their students to stay an extra year. They make it very hard actually; UCD just went through and changed all the unit requirements so that students have to take MORE units per quarter in order to be allowed to continue. (If you don't take a certain number of units your fall and winter quarter, they send you a very nasty notice telling you to make up for it in spring and summer or else you can't come back the following year... a couple of my friends got one, not nice at all.) At UCD, after 200 units you have to apply to the dean of your college to continue, and they kick you out at 225. If you stay five years, that's only 15 units a quarter with no summer classes... considering most people take about 16 units a quarter, it's really not that hard to get to 225 (I am adding an extra year, and will graduate with 224.25). Every indication is that the UCs want to get students out, not to encourage them to stay.</p>