How many units to take first semester?

totalcaprice
Wed, 14 May 2014 02:11:06 +0000

Telebears (what the system of getting your classes is called) is made up of two phases: Phase I and Phase II. Phase I is a earlier date and Phase II is usually a couple of months later. The date you get usually depends on your units coming into berkeley. For your Phase I, your unit cap is 10.5 units (and this is during your CalSO). When your Phase II comes, your unit cap is increased to 16 units (this is a soft cap, which means if your classes hit 16 units, you cannot add more.

However, “soft” means that you can go over 16 units, just that you have rearrange your classes to fit the soft cap. So if you had 13 units, and you wanted to add a 2 unit class, and a 3 unit class. You would add the 2 unit class first, 13+2= 15 units, and then you would add the 3 unit class. You wouldn’t want to add the 3 unit class because you would hit the soft unit cap of 16 (13+3). After your phase II, there is a adjustment period that is a couple of weeks before the semester, and you can add up to 20.5 units.