<p>Will we be able to get a good sense of campus life if we tour Berkeley on 8/27, the day that classes start?</p>
<p>Not a good sense of -regular- campus life. There will be waaaaaay too much chaos on the first day to be comfortable – students running back and forth trying to find the right building, the right floor, booking it to make it to the new room their class was assigned to inexplicably, not to mention all the Welcome Week activities that will be going on.</p>
<p>The big plus is you’ll probably get a good idea how many students are on campus (most people show up for the early weeks at least!) and your Tour Guides will be fresh (though maybe also freshly trained, and a bit stressed with classes starting).</p>