UC Berkeley Freshman Class of 2026 Discussion

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1991

What is the Wonderdome?

1992

It’s a pod of 4 rooms that are female-identifying students. It’s not exactly the “party” room but more a safe space for women to go an hang out, watch movies, etc. The Thunderdome is a similar space for the dudes but that one is more of a party space, I’m told!
If your kid has questions, shoot me a DM and they can get in contact with my daughter. :slight_smile:

1993

What’s the difference between the Fresh Edge course and the same course in the normal school year? Are the Edge courses taught by Cal faculties? Are these summer courses rushed, comparing to the school year courses? Thanks a lot.

1994

I mean Freshman Edge.

1995

https://summer.berkeley.edu/ lists:
Session A—Six Weeks: May 23–July 1
Session B—Ten Weeks: June 6–August 12
Session C—Eight Weeks: June 21–August 12
Session D—Six Weeks: July 5–August 12
Session E—Three Weeks: July 25–August 12
Session F—Three Weeks: July 5–July 22
Session 12W—12 Weeks: May 23–August 12

https://classes.berkeley.edu/ indicates that, for summer 2022, sessions D and C have the largest number of course offerings.

A regular semester is 15 weeks of instruction, so a summer session course will cover material at a proportionally faster pace (with proportionally more class hours and expected hours of out-of-class work per week). While a full course load in a normal semester is 15 units, a full course load in a six week summer session is 6 units, and a full course load in an eight week summer session is 8 units, in terms of amount of work per week.

1996

Hi, I have a question about sending the official AP scores to Berkeley through College Board. Do we need to send it now, or can we wait till July 5th for the scores for this year’s exams to be out too and then send it?

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1997

You wait until all scores are posted before sending.

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1998

Thank you!

1999

Hi - D22 is not getting a dorm room in round 1. I believe she will hear in couple of weeks when the second round goes out. Questions for the UC Berkeley experts.

  1. In round 2, what kind of housing can one expect- Anything from the Unit 1,2,3 or will it be outside this set?
  2. If we don’t have a viable option in round 2, do we have the option to go with our own off campus housing?

Thanks for any pointers

2000

If not assured of a dorm space, it is best to start looking for other housing now.

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2001

Sorry I have no answers for your housing questions.
But if you don’t mind my asking, when did she hear from the Cal housing ? My son hasn’t heard anything yet.

2002

Mine hasn’t heard anything either. It still says “submitted”.

2003

called office as " any room size/location " was NOT included as the 5th preference. a major reason why she will have to wait for second round. heard that communications are going out this week. Hope this helps. All the best!

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2004

Thank you. good point to keep in mind

2005

What room size or location was not acceptable to her?

2006

I think it was more a case of including what she came across during visit - units 1-3 Blackwell and couple of permutations upto doubles which took care of all 5 available choices. She is OK with triples as well or other dorms. the 5th option of any size/location would have taken care of that. She updated the housing app now but too late for round 1. Hopefully something will come up in round 2 ( two more weeks of waiting)

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2007

Thank you! Keeping fingers crossed for you guys

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2008

FYI…dorm assignments are out on the housing portal.

2009

Yup, I got assigned to a double suite at foothill. It’s quite expensive compared to the other dorms. :frowning:

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2010

All the best ! Is it for STEM / Engineering majors ? Website mentioned something about STEM

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