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

Lemaitre1
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:05:01 +0000

If you do not finish your required courses for graduation in four, and in special cases, five semesters your enrollment at UC Berkeley is terminated and you will be required to leave without being awarded a degree.

I think a lot of transfer students get used to the idea in CCC that they can fail courses and retake them, withdraw from courses and retake them, take light loads and spend essentially as much time as they want doing their lower division courses. Berkeley will not tolerate that since they have calculated that if you take a full course load, do not fail any courses and do not withdraw from any courses you should be able to finish in four semesters so that is all they are going to give you to get your degree so they can accomodate as many students as possible.