Difficulty of Enrollment

Overall, all those classes except for Education are ones commonly taken by freshmen/underclassmen so you should be fine...I will say though that you really gotta be sure to use your Phase 1 units (can only enroll in up to 12.5 units iirc then you gotta wait) on Data or 61A in particular bc those are notorious for running out of space esp if you don't get any of the reserved seats, and esp with the EECS dept being more restrictive on opening the waitlist. As of right now, if you don't get the 61A reserved seats you're already on the waitlist, but that being said if you are in the top 10% of the WL, statistically you can somewhat expect to get into the class. For Chem or 53 I think the thing is more just getting a bad discussion time or prof if you don't sign up immediately, but not the end of the world (i took both those classes pre-covid so idk if its gotten any worse for enrollment since then)

Honestly, although you didn't ask, the question I'm asking myself is whether or not you're gonna die with a schedule so heavy in techs your first sem lol...idk if those are just the classes you're thinking about, but 61A, Chem, and 53 aren't gonna be walks in the park at all, and then you'd be adding D8 and E24 ontop of that...but that's just me

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