UCLA / USC with the siblings would be a fun little rivalry…
Very true; my wife is excited to go to the bruins-trojan game. My younger one has already demanded that we change the licence tag plates from USC-Mom to UCLA- Mom/Dad. 
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Question about Housing. My daughter and her friend from school had planned to room together and added each other in the housing application… until her friend got off the UCLA waitlist and opted to go there as of yesterday. My daughter would have loved to have someone she knows or had already connected with as a room mate.
Anyone in this situation? Does anyone know if there is an opportunity to contact housing and ask for another roommate of choice this late?
Does anyone have any information on the Global Environmental Theme Housing/Connection to anyone who has participated? I just got accepted, and I am excited to join, but there is fairly limited info online. Thanks!
Definitely contact housing! I’m sure things like this happen all the time. My daughter is finishing up her first year at Berkeley and found her roommate through the app called “Bunky.” A lot of her peers used it. I would call/email housing ASAP and find out what you should do.
Luckily your daughter has already applied for housing and is in the queue. They will make a housing offer based on her and her roommates initial application. They would likely put her with someone who didn’t specify a roommate. FWIW–Berkeley does an amazing job with the first week, “Golden Bear Orientation.” Students are grouped in a cohort of people they live adjacent to, in their dorm. So, they spend their first week cavorting around Berkeley and SF with their room/floor/suite mates. It made for a really tight-knit community for my daughter. It has been a truly wonderful year!
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Blackwell Hall is very nice. Does anyone know if Regents have a good chance to get BW? My son put BW as first choice. If he puts down his preferred roommate who is not Regents, will that affect his chance of getting BW?
I’m not sure if Regents makes a difference, however I would suggest that you don’t worry too much about whether he gets Blackwell or not. I would prioritize the roommate he likes, rather than the building. I think Blackwell is probably the most common first choice for most kids, so lots of kids won’t get it. It’s a nice building, but your son will be fine wherever he lands.
Every year we see parents posting on the parent groups how they are upset that their kids were assigned to a triple in the units (probably the most common placement) when it wasn’t their choice. That’s where my son was assigned… his first choice was a double in Blackwell, but he was assigned to a triple in Unit 2. The units are very social, and my son had a great year there. And in the end we were glad we saved the money compared to a double in Blackwell!
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The official statement from Res Life is that Regents Scholars do not get housing advantage in the lottery. In practice, however, they very much seem to (my Regents daughter is going on year three of living in Blackwell). So there are no guarantees, but you probably have a good chance.
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Thank you!
Daughter was in Blackwell. Very fortunate and so clean and close to campus. However, it’s not as social as other dorms.
Is your daughter a Regents’ Scholar as well? I really hope my son can stay at BW. It’s a big difference between BW and other units. It even has GYM in BW.
quick question! i submitted my housing app on may 1st (by the deadline) but my roomate and i wanted to change our preferences. i resubmitted it on the 9th instead of just saving and updating our housing order. does anybody know if this will put me lower in the order and mean i might not get housing? i did originally submit by the 1st, but im scared that they will see my most recent submission which was late. i do not think my roommate resubmitted, i think she just updated it? sorry if im overthinking im just so nervy
It happened with my son as well, when he updated his roommate and re-submitted. I think its just the quirk of the system, that time stamps the latest submission. However, if you go to your messages, it shows the initial submission message. The system also lets you make changes till you are assigned a room.
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Just got my housing offer, clark kerr double. I thought that there weren’t any doubles at clark kerr does that mean I am in a triple room with two people? or are there actually clark kerr doubles? very excited to live in clark kerr
thanks so much! ironically enough i just got my offer! super pumped for blackwell double!! guess the new submission didnt matter haha
S25 got a clark kerr large triple, guessing it was not his first choice. Stiil looks a good option, not that my opinion matters.
Blackwell is the closest one to the Recreational Sports Facility.
Nope, just lucky!
hi! i don’t know if anyone can offer any advice, but this is my planned schedule
- are any of these super hard to get into? im worried about alt schedules bc this one would fulfill ALL my gen eds my first year
any advice is helpful!
Berkeleytime can be a good resource for this: https://berkeleytime.com
You can look up each of your classes under “Enrollment” to get a rough prediction of when they are likely to fill. For example here’s a graph for Anthro 2AC showing the current year in green, last year in blue:
Apparently this class didn’t fill last year until after Phase 2, and this is a hopeful indication for you, since entering first-year students have a course enrollment time just before Phase 2 starts. You can do the same lookup for the rest of your classes. Berkeleytime also has historical grade distributions and a scheduling function.
As far as other types of course schedule advice, such as asking whether a schedule is too heavy, I’ve noticed a lot of students using the berkeley reddit to ask other students these questions.
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