<p>So I'm a "bit" frustrated with the scheduling system right now at Cal.</p>
<p>CS 61B lecture has been at 150 seats since it was put up; the waitlist is filling up and has a max of 200. MATH 54 has two lectures, but the discussions and waitlists are entirely full so you can't even waitlist for the course.
Also it seems that all of the R&C 2nd half courses are filled up.</p>
<p>What's going on here? It wasn't this bad for fall semester :/ ...</p>
<p>Budget cuts maybe? I know a lot of lab sections have been cut. CS can no longer pay for enough GSI/UGSIs either.</p>
<p>Neither can f****** Chem!! 3AL is totally messed up cause of budget cuts - there are normally 40 sections of lab per semester, but they only have cash for 21 now.
This obviously causes problems.</p>
<p>is this seriously because of budget problems?
...
that's really disheartening :(</p>
<h1>Anyone read today's dailycal article about over-enrollment + budget cuts?</h1>
<p>For the past four years, the university has aimed to increase total enrollment by 5,000 students a year</p>
<p>Unlike other UCs, UC Berkeley will not change its enrollment rates for now, said Walter Robinson, assistant vice chancellor of undergraduate admissions.</p>
<h1>"We are still committed as a campus to creating the broadest opportunity for access to the largest number of students we possibly can, because we know there is a high demand for Berkeley-quality education," he said.</h1>
<p>The univ. is cutting back classes while increasing student enrollment... isn't this hurting the 'Berkeley-quality education'?</p>
<p>The administration should take Econ 1...
High Demand for classes + Low Supply for classes = Shortage</p>
<p>They should just stop admitting so many students. A large percentage of them won't do well here anyway.</p>
<p>this is where good TeleBEARS appointments are the only things that can save you.
What is problematic is that this causes chronic problems</p>
<p>Those who get good TeleBEARS relative for their class level will generally be able to get their courses. They won't have serious problems.</p>
<p>People who aren't at the front end for TeleBEARS don't get their classes. They wait list during phase 1, and as a result they are actually "in" fewer courses. Phase 2 comes by, they realize that they won't get into their wait list courses, but by then all breadth classes and possible replacement courses are full. They end up taking less units, and the next semester they get even more ****ed over for TeleBEARS and problems get worse.</p>
<p>wow a positive feedback mech!</p>
<p>^yes, and I am glad I am not in the loop</p>
<p>Yes. I am soo angry...and they're still gonna admit as many students as they are? Geez. As if the system isn't bad enough...</p>
<p>"They should just stop admitting so many students. A large percentage of them won't do well here anyway."</p>
<p>how exactly are the hordes of qualified candidates rejected to cal every year liable to do bad?</p>
<p>its easy to scapegoat overenrollment when the university has shotty fiscal responsibility. how much are they spending on the gate?</p>
<p>berkeley should be a private school</p>
<p>Joined Cal this fall; pretty disappointed with the enrollment process so far. Surely, getting your desired classes shouldn't be that hard at "The best public school in the world"? :(</p>
<p>They really need to cut down enrollment if they want to maintain the quality of education.</p>
<p>Fewer GSIs, Fewer Labs, More students = Recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>For my second phase of Telebears, my first four choices of classes were all full, and their waitlists were full too :(</p>
<p>managed to get into math54 .. i think they opened another discussion section?</p>
<p>cs61b is still hopelessly full though :(</p>
<p>I'm will have junior standing by the end of this semester, but my telebears was still later than some of my peer's with lower academic standing. Anyway, I think the university's troubles are tied to the economic troubles the entire nation is currently going through. Overenrollment wouldn't be such a big issue if at all the economy was doing well and the government can afford to pump money into public education instead of the banking system and the Big Three in Detroit. Besides, cutting enrollment would deprive some students who are underprivileged of a chance for a better life or depriving ourselves of the next Albert Einstein (what we really need right now though is another John Maynard Keynes).</p>
<p>Do you mean you future telebears level? or you non-AP level. Your non-AP level is the main factor that affects your telebears.</p>
<p>Yes, I was referring to my future telebears level. Well, that makes me very sad. The engineering school wants me out here in four years, but that's hard to do when I can't take my prereq classes.</p>
<p>future level only pushes you ahead within your class level.</p>