For further details, including instructions on how to make enrollment changes in CalCentral, please click on the title of the relevant section below.
Important Notice for International Students: Students are responsible for all their enrollment decisions. For F-1 visa purposes, visiting international students with a summer I-20 from UC Berkeley are required to maintain full-time enrollment for the entire duration of their summer session(s). You can see the full-time requirements, as well as examples, on our Summer Enrollment Requirements page. If for any reason you need to drop below full-time enrollment, please contact visiting-intl@berkeley.edu as soon as possible before dropping any unit(s).
Adding Classes
See the deadline to Add Classes
If you wish to add or enroll in a class after instruction has begun, it is strongly recommended that you attend the class and speak with the instructor first. While the deadline to add/enroll in classes is two weeks after the start of a session, it is not a guarantee that you can successfully complete the coursework.
If you are enrolled in only one class and want to enroll in a different class, you must use the Swap function to switch to another class, or add the new class first then drop the class you no longer want. It is your responsibility to drop the other course. Please be aware of your session enrollment change deadlines before making any course changes.
Disclaimer: Although very few courses are canceled, Berkeley Summer Sessions reserves the right to cancel a course if there are not enough enrolled students in the course before the beginning of instruction. The sponsoring academic department may also cancel courses based on their internal criteria.
Waitlisted Classes
How Waitlist Works: Generally, classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Once class enrollment reaches its limit, a waitlist is opened. Students on most waitlists are automatically enrolled in order as space becomes available. If you no longer want to be enrolled in a waitlisted class, you must drop the waitlisted class before the refund deadline to avoid being responsible for the tuition and fees.
See the deadline to Drop Classes
Dropping Waitlisted Classes Students are responsible for monitoring the waitlist status via CalCentral. If you no longer want to be enrolled in a waitlisted class, you must drop the waitlisted class prior to the refund deadline to avoid being responsible for the tuition and fees.. Students continue to be automatically enrolled from the waitlist through the second week of the session and will be charged tuition once enrolled.
Waitlisted course units do not count toward the full-time enrollment requirements for international students.
Swapping Classes
See the deadline to Add/Drop Classes
The swap function can be used to drop one class and simultaneously add another. By swapping, rather than dropping then adding, you ensure you keep your original enrollment until your enrollment in the new class is confirmed.
If you are enrolled in only one class, you must use the Swap function to switch to another class, or add the new class first then drop.
Because swapping is a combination of adding and dropping a course, deadlines and policies for both Add and Drop actions apply when using the swap function.
Scheduling Conflict
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Time conflicts should be avoided and you should not expect instructors to accommodate time conflicts in your class schedule.
When attempting to add classes with a time conflict, you may or may not be able to add them depending on each class’s attribute. If you are able to enroll in classes with a time conflict, you must resolve the time conflict by changing your schedule before instruction begins. Students are encouraged to use the Swap function when adding a waitlisted class that conflicts with another enrolled class.
Dropping Classes
See the deadline to Drop Classes
You are responsible for dropping any and all enrolled and/or waitlisted classes you do not wish to attend before the refund deadline to receive a refund or prevent being charged for the dropped class. Students are not automatically dropped from a class for failure to attend (there is no “instructor drop in the summer term).
If you are dropping all classes in all sessions (you no longer want to attend Summer Sessions), see below for Dropping All Classes (Canceling and Withdrawing).
Dropping All Classes (Canceling and Withdrawing)
See deadline to Cancel & Withdraw
What is Cancellation: Cancellation means dropping all enrolled and/or waitlisted classes in all sessions before the cancellation deadline of your first session. All tuition and other fees will be refunded. The $25 Application Fee for non-UC visiting students is strictly non-refundable even if a student cancels or withdraws from Summer Sessions. The International Service Fee will not be refundable once the I-20 has been issued.
What is Withdrawal: Withdrawal means dropping all enrolled and/or waitlisted classes in all sessions after the cancellation deadline of your first session. Tuition may be refunded if classes are dropped before the refund deadline, but all other fees become non-refundable. Please see our Fees page for the list of fees. The $25 Application Fee for non-UC visiting students is strictly non-refundable even if a student cancels or withdraws from Summer Sessions.
International students who cancel or withdraw after arriving in the U.S. will lose their legal status and must contact visiting-intl@berkeley.edu before canceling or withdrawing.
How to Cancel or Withdraw
Submit a Withdrawal Request through CalCentral to drop all classes in one session. Please note if you are enrolled in multiple sessions, you must submit one Withdrawal Request per session in order to drop all classes in each session. If you are only enrolled in waitlisted courses, you will still be required to submit a Withdrawal Request through CalCentral.
If you made a mistake or changed your mind and need to re-enroll in classes, please contact Summer Sessions.
Changing Grading Options
See the deadline to Change Grading Option
You may change your initial grading option any time before the deadline to change grading option. After the session ends, it is no longer possible to change the grading option.
Available Grading Options
- - Letter Grade (A,B,C,D,F)
- - Passed/Not Passed (P/NP)
- - Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U)
Changing a Course's Unit Value
See the deadline to Add/Drop Classes
Some courses are approved for variable units. You may change the number of units in which you are enrolled for these types of courses. Because increasing and decreasing a unit value equates to adding and dropping courses/units, deadlines and policies for both Add and Drop actions apply when changing a course's unit value.