<p>Free at last! Free at last! Free at last!
10,000 years will give ya such a crick in the neck!
Anyways my "restricted" use has been lifted, and I can now go discussion crazy.</p>
<p>I have some questions.....can anyone explain unit ceilings? Is it just at Cal? Or is it just more strict at Cal? What exactly is it? I thought I had a good idea of what it was, but I'm not too sure anymore.</p>
<p>Different institutions have their own rules. At Cal, the ceiling is 130 units for those pursuing a single major, and 136 for those pursuing a double. As a transfer, you are allowed 4 semesters (5 if you have two majors) of unrestricted enrollment. This means that so long as you havent gone past 4 semesters, you can enroll in as many units as you want and the unit ceiling will not apply (you can go past 130 units). If you finish 4 semesters however, and you are still not finished at Cal, then the unit ceiling will apply and thus, you can continue enrolling there until you hit 130 units, at which point a block will go on your account and you will not be able to register anymore.</p>
<p>Are you in College of Letter and Science? If yes, this page, <a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/unitceiling.html</a>, explains unit ceilings. It looks like the maximum units you can have are 130 units.
This may not apply to other colleges. For example, “[t]he College of Chemistry does not have a rule regarding maximum units that a student can accumulate.”</p>
<p>For Berkeley College of Engineering, students must ask permission to take any additional semesters beyond 8 (or 4 since junior transfer). It is very rare for more than one extra semester to be approved. For Berkeley School of Business, students may take a maximum of 4 semesters after entering the undergraduate business major.</p>
<p>The ceilings on number of semesters and/or credit units exist because most students are in-state and therefore subsidized (with discounted in-state tuition), so that students taking extra time consume more than their fair share of the state subsidy. This particularly an issue for schools which are at full capacity (in California, this means all public universities except for the few non-impacted CSUs). Other public universities also have policies to handle this problem. For example, San Jose State allows high unit seniors to register only for courses needed to complete subject requirements to graduate in their majors. Texas public universities offer a small tuition refund to those who graduate having attempted the minimum number of credit units (or up to about 3 over) for their majors.</p>
<p>Why doesn’t summer count? I’ve never really understood that. </p>
<p>And welcome back, lol 
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<p>YAY! This is truly a great moment! </p>