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What is Concurrent Enrollment?

Concurrent Enrollment is when students plan to enroll in a course(s) at another institution while they are also enrolled in a regular (Fall or Spring) semester at UC Berkeley. 

Virtual Office Hours for L&S Advising to begin October 7th, 2019.

Our fantastic Peer Advisers are current students and trained to answer quick questions about L&S requirements, policies, and procedures.

Beginning October 7th, join them on Google Hangouts with your Berkeley email address during the following times:

Mondays: 5:30 - 7:30 PM with Aeri

Every Fall and Spring semester, L&S Advising sends newsletters to undergraduates at the beginning and middle of the term. These newsletters will give you the deadline schedule for the semester (which you can import into your bCal), highlight upcoming events, and deliver critical announcements like policy changes. Checking out each issue will make sure you have the latest information and help you navigate advising. 

Check out archived newletters:

Effective Fall 2018, the deadline for all undergraduate students to add and drop classes will move to Wednesday of week four of the semester. 

The Fall 2018 deadline to add and drop classes will be Wednesday, September 12 at 11:59PM. 

This deadline applies to all courses not on the Early Drop Deadline list.

L&S Premed Advising Drop-in Wednesdays

Every Wednesday afternoon from 1-4 pm throughout the year, there is now limited premed/pre-health drop-in advising appointments available to students on a first-come, first-served basis at 206 Evans Hall and and 156 Dwinelle Hall.

Cal Student Orientation season has officially started. The first CalSO session for the newest class of incoming Bears contained 74 computer science intended majors, 59 intended to major in molecular & cell biology, 40 students for Haas School of Business, 36 intended for economics, and 19 for mathematics, making up seventy percent of the incoming 326 students. Among smaller groups, there was one intended history major, one intended film major, one student for anthropology, and six wisely intending to major in physics.  

The Student Informations Systems (SIS) project is planning to give advisors access to high school records, including transcripts, in June. CalCentral will now feature a link to ImageNow for access to the new SIS feature. 

The Coordination Board for Admissions, Financial Aid, and Enrollment Management writes that the "target self-help value" for undergrad in-state financial aid rose from $450 to $8400. UC Berkeley is still on the good side of the numbers compared to the UC average. The increase is mostly due to increases in expected student expenses. The board is looking to house about fifty students at Mills College in the fall of this year, perhaps in concert with some Bio 1A/1B-style courses. Other joint programs are being considered as well.

Construction on Wheeler Hall is starting up. For more information, please see the following links of Berkeley websites covering the project: http://realestate.berkeley.edu/wheeler-renewal and http://wheelerrenewal.berkeley.edu. Wheeler Hall will be closed until May 2017.

bCourses implemented a new content retention policy which states that each bCourses site concludes two to three weeks after the end of each term. Site content will be deleted after six years, but users will receive a notification before any content is deleted, in addition to being given the possibility of exception. Student content, such as files and assignments, will be kept so long as the student still has a CalNet ID. 

The cognitive science program is considering a change that would require Math 55 as a prerequisite for the major. Currently, Math 55 is part of the post-declaration major program. There will be more to follow as the possible change develops.

2016 is the first year that UC Berkeley, or any United States institution, has been invited by the Yenching Academy of Peking to nominate students for the Yenching Scholars Program. UC Berkeley student Alicia Hayes (Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships) works as Berkeley's campus representative for the Yenching Academy.