I don’t anything about the program, but at with what I now know about these conditional programs , I’d certainly bring up the drawback of any to those considering them, but once a college student is in such a program, I’d give it a positive spin and encourage it. Your DD might do very well there. Might not want to leave. Might want to stay at Berkeley even if it doesn’t look good to get into the next step. A lot of things happen in college.