a maximum of 4 semesters for UC Berkeley (transfers))

Lemaitre1
Thu, 26 May 2011 19:26:52 +0000

It is really not as harsh as it sounds. The problems in getting classes at CCCs, CSUs and UCs are largely confined to lower division courses in Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and English that have to be taken by all students in the most popular majors like Biology, Pre-med and Engineering. Junior transfers should have their lower division GE and prerequisites for their major done by the time they transfer and will only be registering for upper division courses in their major. CCCs, of course, offer no upper division courses and so far there has been little difficulty with students getting into upper division courses at the UCs and the CSUs so transfers should not have problems getting the courses they need to transfer in two years.

If the budget situation gets so bad that many required upper division courses will not be available every semester or even every year it could become a problem if UC Berkeley does not budge on its maximum of two years for transfer students.