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<p>Wasn’t my experience at the same general time frame. I was able to easily take more than the minimum number of courses to graduate in eight semesters (both in-major and out-of-major courses). The only semester that I had trouble getting all of the desired courses was first semester of freshman year (when I did not know the registration priorities as well as in later semesters), but that did not delay progress in my major or to graduation.</p>
<p>On the other hand, 4 year graduation rate back then was pretty low, but due to other reasons:</p>
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<li>Voluntarily taking an average of fewer than 15 credits per semester (sometimes because of working their way through college, but other times because they felt that a normal 15 credit load was too hard and in-state tuition was cheap enough back then that they could afford the extra semester(s) – though even then, Berkeley had the unit cap on those who took more than 8 semesters to keep people from being permanent students).</li>
<li>Needed to take remedial courses which were given lesser credit then (more than half of the entering freshmen then needed remedial English, and remedial math had a big enrollment then also).</li>
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