UC Berkeley - Class of 2022 Applicants Thread

ElenaParent
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:57:25 +0000

@ProfessorPlum168 Interesting to hear from another parent who is navigating through this maze…

Why do you think “some of the units will not be countable”? I wonder if we made a mistake…

My son has “University of California Requirements” covered by his AP and SAT scores.
“American Cultures” is course #1 he has to take.
“Reading and Composition” he needs just one half; another half is coming from CC credit. So this is course #2 he has to take.
“Quantitative reasoning” and “Foreign Language” are satisfied by SAT and AP.
Now 7-breadth:
The course #2 mentioned above (from “Reading and Composition”) will cover “Historical Studies” (there is a course that covers both requirements), so no extra course here.
Separate six courses (#3, #4, #5, #6, #7 and #8) will cover the other six requirements, but two of them are needed for his major (math); the courses that overlap 7-breadth and his major are MATH 135 (“Philosophy and Values”) and MATH C103 (“Social and Behavioral Sciences”). So far we have eight courses he needs to take.
For his major, he needs 5 lower division courses, out of which the first two are accounted for by AP, the next two (MATH 53 and 54) are already counted by math department though equivalency credit (from his CC and his non-degree studies at another university). So he has to take only one more lower division required course (MATH 55), I count it as course #9.
Then there are 4 required upper division math courses, I count them as courses #10, #11, #12 and #13.
Then there are two semi-electives, one of which is already accounted for in the 7-breadth (MATH 135). The other semi-elective is one more course for him to take, #14.
Then there should be two electives, upper division. One of them is already accounted for in 7-breadth (MATH C103), and for another one he has a choice of any of the several upper division math courses he took at another University during his non-degree studies.
That will do it for all classes requirements: 7-breadth, major, Berkeley, and UC. The units requirements are covered by the 75 units from AP and CC and University, plus 14 Berkeley courses. The Upper Division units are covered as well, since most of the courses he is taking are upper division, including 7-breadth. All other things, like “at least 6 units of Upper Division outside of your department” are also covered.

If you see a mistake here, please let me know, we will have to rethink the plan if the mistake is there.