UC Berkeley - Class of 2022 Applicants Thread

ElenaParent
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:09:38 +0000

@Walter924 Thank you! Yes, we checked every requirement and are pretty sure that with all the credit he is coming with, he needs just those 14 courses. (He has 46 or 48 units, depending how you count them, from AP; and 29 from community college and a non-degree program in another university, and 15 of these units are upper division.) With 75 units before he starts his freshman year, the main concern is hitting the 7-breadth, “reading and composition,” and “american cultures.” The Golden Bear Advising is not of much help, unfortunately, because they have 200 students each to advise, and they are not bent on working with the outlier cases like that. Their main concern is for the first students not to get enrolled into upper division classes, and my son doesn’t have any choice but to enroll into upper division! His home (major) department encourages that, even encourages him to take honor version of upper division. I am sure they will guide him well, regarding his major.
Do you know when all the AP units and transfer units are going to show up in his Cal Central? Do you know if all of these are going to be automatically counted in a proper way, say distinction between lower division and upper division, distinction between L&S (Letters and Science) and not L&S units? Or will he need to file some petitions and go argue with people (stuff he doesn’t do very well).