Spring semester normally has lower enrollment than fall semester, because students who graduate one semester early or one semester late have one more fall semester than spring semester if they were enrolled continuously since starting as frosh in a fall semester. That is likely why UCB (and some other colleges) have various means of admitting new frosh to start in the spring instead of fall semester, sometimes with special extension programs with limited offerings of frosh level courses (e.g. UCB’s FPF) or special study abroad programs for the fall semester.
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