UC Berkeley - Class of 2022 Applicants Thread

ElenaParent
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:36:03 +0000

@ProfessorPlum168 Thank you for your thoughts!

I think you are mistaken saying that the 50-60 units that the L&S students have to graduate have to be all taken at Berkeley. You probably just added the required courses for a major, and for MATH major this is 5 lower and 8 upper division courses, and my son already has credit for 4 lower division and 2 upper division (and many other upper division to spare). Also, there can be overlap between 7-breadth and major requirements, and we are taking full advantage of these. Keep it in mind, your son may be able to use these too!

The minimum number of units, to be actually taken at Berkeley, are coming from “Residence Requirement”, and it says “After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your B.A. degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units on the Berkeley campus, as an L&S student in at least two semesters. (…) Transfer units are excluded.” That will be fulfilled by my son’s next year (actually, he will start fulfilling it next spring, because he should have his 75 units he starts with, and 17 units form the Fall-18 semester).

Another residency requirement is “As an L&S student, you must complete a minimum of 18 units of upper division courses, 12 of which must be eligible to satisfy a requirement for your major.” All these are satisfied by my son’s 7 upper division math courses that he will take (27 or 28 units).

The L&S requirement sounds like this: “Of the 120 total:
60 units in L&S courses. This includes courses offered by L&S and courses offered outside L&S that are approved for Seven-Course Breadth or major requirements.” This requirement does NOT say that all the 60 units should be earned at Berkeley. For my son, out of 54 to 57 units he plans to take at Berkeley, only 4 will not be counted as L&S units. The number of L&S units he brings with his CC and University transcripts, is 22. Thus, he is more than covered for the needed 60 L&S units.

So, rechecking everything again, I do not see any flaws in our scheme. The thing is, he is not a CC transfer. He is a freshman admit, after 11th grade in HS. And he has many 4-year University courses taken already (concurrently with his HS studies, he was at that University for 50% of the time, and 50% in HS). He was doing his CC courses before he got to HS… That helps with having many requirements for his major outta the way…