<p>So I currently go to UCSD and I am majoring in English. I applied to UC Berkeley last quarter and an admissions counselor contacted me recently to ask if I could only take 8 units (both of which are prereq’s) during Spring quarter or else I will definitely go over the 120 unit limit. I was just wondering if anyone ever had a similar request from an admissions counselor in the past? Cal is my dream school but I am also in the Honors Program here and my adviser told me I’d be screwing up my financial aid and I would make things harder on myself if I stopped taking honors units for a “maybe”… so, worth it…?</p>
<p>Oh boy aren’t you in a pickle… Imo these are your options
- Stay in good standing for finaid and keep your units up…apply for cal for grad school.
- Message/call Berkeley try to explain why you need excessive units??
- Risk it…take 8 units! Live on the wild side</p>
<p>What’s your GPA? tell me that and i can give you a decision that’s smart</p>
<p>Currently 3.63 including Fall quarter</p>
<p>If you could pull your gpa slightly higher, i’d go for the risk because the acceptance rate for english is about 45 percent. Also make sure you have all prereqs completed. If not, then most. Check assist.org.</p>
<p>If u were in CC ur gpa is good enough but ur in UC and UC doesnt get priority like CC does so that’s why i said to pull it a BIT higher to be safe.</p>
<p>I would just go for it and possibly lose financial aid for a quarter than to lose an opportunity that doesn’t come again.</p>
<p>edit: if it truly is your dream school i think you’ll regret not going for it</p>
<p>Close call…you might actually get in. Obviously there is really no accurate way of predicting your chances no matter how much people try to do that around here. What I am saying is statistically speaking the numbers are in your favor…Honestly though, look into finding out if they are flexible with that unit cap…</p>
<p>Update: Thanks everyone for all of your advice! So I decided to take the risk and drop all of my classes and alerted both UCLA and Berkeley… and I ended up getting admitted into both!</p>