<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I want to take some classes over the summer at my local community college. However, I do not want them to transfer over to Berkeley because then I'd reach my unit ceiling and can't stay an extra semester. Does anyone know where I can find the policy on this? Thanks!</p>
<p>I am not sure you will find a policy but I am also fairly sure this is possible to do without problems.</p>
<p>Concurrent enrollment is governed by a few policies but the concept is applied to the ‘normal’ semesters, fall and spring, not for summer. Look at the first sentence on this form from L&S <a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/fp/ConcurrentEnrollment.pdf[/url]”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/fp/ConcurrentEnrollment.pdf</a></p>
<p>Therefore, you could take classes anywhere in any summer while at Cal and not need any permission from your college, nor do they need you to tell them.</p>
<p>Courses you take elsewhere are ‘submitted’ for credit. The official education abroad programs automate this, just as accepted incoming students have this done as part of the processing of their transcripts, but otherwise it is your act that triggers this - [Transferring</a> Credit to UCB - Office Of The Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/current_students/academic_records_transcripts/transfer_credit.html]Transferring”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/current_students/academic_records_transcripts/transfer_credit.html) If you don’t ask for credit for a past class, it isn’t counted. The most straightforward example of this principle is for transfer students, where only the units that are credited and requested are included in your Cal units, other courses you took are ignored and don’t add to your Cal units. </p>
<p>You are not required to inform the college of these classes. The requirement to inform the college holds when you are applying to come to Cal, it applies for concurrent enrollment in regular semesters, it applies to taking semesters off for any reason because then you are applying for readmission ( [Berkeley</a> Admissions : Readmission Application Instructions](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/index.asp?id=72&navid=N]Berkeley”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/index.asp?id=72&navid=N) ) but there is nothing anywhere that requires you to inform the college about summer classes. </p>
<p>Note that if you apply to grad or professional school later, you would have to list those classes due to the admissions policies of those schools. If you applied to Cal for graduate admissions, then you would need to notify them of taking those classes.</p>
<p>If you are in L&S, the unit ceiling only applies if you attend more than 8 semesters from freshman entry, or 4 semesters from transfer entry.</p>
<p>[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>Also, if you have completed at least 70 units of college work, community college work completed after then does not apply to the unit ceiling.</p>
<p>[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>Awesome, thanks guys!</p>
<p>so, from what i understand…we can go past 120 units (if we are in college of letters and science) as long as we are able to graduate in 8 semesters?</p>
<p>insertname: Yep!</p>
<p>Be careful if you aren’t sure what you want out of college, though. I recently decided to take a ninth semester to study abroad, and so I can only take 13 units a semester from now on to reach 130. Unless you get special permission or are a double major, if you even go 130.5 units, they won’t let you stay a ninth semester.</p>
<p>Based on the following from [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) , it looks like you can reach up to 130 units in your eighth or later semester, and then take one more semester with however many units you want:</p>
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<p>yes, that is what it says, clearly.</p>