<p>@absurdmike Haha thanks man, I’ll probably wait until there are only about 20 spots left in the class I want to take - right now there are still 39 spots left. </p>
<p>And they are a bummer! To a community college student, they seem ridiculous! lol Plus, at my community college, I had the Bog fee waiver, so I never paid for anything. </p>
<p>Good thing I took out that $5,000 loan - I knew I’d need some seed money to get me started at UC even before all my Financial aid came in.</p>
<p>Considering that I am a cc freshman, will getting an A in a summer course at UCB up one’s chances of getting accepted in fall 2011? I would think so because it demonstrates that one could handle UCB level work.</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I was planning on taking two classes at UCB this summer. One is a 10 week, 10 credit intermediate Chinese intensive. It’s everyday for three hours/day, but I wasn’t planning on doing all that much studying outside of class -no more than an extra 3 hours/day on top of the class time.</p>
<p>The other course is an upperdiv history of modern south Africa, 6 weeks, 4 units.</p>
<p>My dad got ****ed off when I told him this, because he doesn’t think I’ll be able to handle that. Your comment gave some validation to his concern.</p>
<p>Do you think the 10 unit intensive is all that an only moderately hard working student can handle? Or do you think I could handle both?</p>
<p>Both classes will most likely require a large amount of outside studying. Unless you are already fluent in Chinese, I would go with only taking the Chinese class.</p>
<p>lol and good luck at the transfer who said they were taking 4 classes. i did 4 last summer and woke up at 5am and slept sometime around 11pm-12am every night and did nothing but do work/school in between and it was hardly enough time.</p>
<p>@zackaw DEFINITELY DO NOT take anything but chinese. the language intensives are called INTENSIVES for a reason. taking 8 units at a time is difficult. 10 is a challenge. do not do more, do not have a summer job. you are taking a YEAR of a language at berkeley. the language classes here are insane i know people that take japanese, for example, pass/not pass and dont pass.</p>
<p>Whao, whao, whao…</p>
<p>Japanese as pass/no pass and they don’t pass? This is not good news, my friend… As I need to take two semesters of Japanese to complete my major. Are Berkeley’s normal (non summer school) Japanese classes that hard?</p>