<p>Note that this doesn’t happen all throughout your time at Berkeley. Look at the fall schedule of classes from 2007 – you’ll see that the overwhelming majority of classes don’t even have a waitlist. And even then, many of the waitlists aren’t updated (e.g. a waitlist says 2 when there are 12 more spots, and those 2 most likely got into the class). This makes sense, considering that Berkeley offers 3,500 courses to its undergrads (and another 3,500 to its grads).</p>
<p><a href=“http://schedule.berkeley.edu/srchfall.html[/url]”>http://schedule.berkeley.edu/srchfall.html</a></p>
<p>In addition, some make Berkeley’s classes out to be worse in size than they are – only ~5% are over 100, and more than 60% are below 20. Berkeley doesn’t release class subsections, but I daresay they’re probably all pretty small for the most part (that’s the whole point of a subsection).</p>
<p><a href=“http://cds.berkeley.edu/pdfs/PDF%20wBOOKMARKS%2006-07.pdf[/url]”>http://cds.berkeley.edu/pdfs/PDF%20wBOOKMARKS%2006-07.pdf</a></p>