Course placement details, including any wait pool status, can be viewed on your online account by logging into atdp.berkeley.edu/account and going to the COURSE PLACEMENT tab. We attempt to place students in their first choice when possible. Factors in course placement include the date an application is complete (not necessarily the date submitted) and a student’s relative academic performance. Please consider these factors carefully if applying in 2022!

Confirming Your Spot

Whether or not they are planning to attend, each student’s parent/guardian must fill out and submit the online Enrollment Form, which allows ATDP to confirm or release that space in the assigned course. This can be found in the FORMS tab of your online account. Please let us know as early as you can!

Tuition Payment

Tuition payments are due by May 19 for those who applied by our standard deadline, and within 10 business days for applicants applying during our extended period. For families electing to pay in installments, a minimum amount of $100 of your tuition balance is due May 19, with the remaining balance to be paid in full no later than July 1.

See also our Course Placement & Wait Pool FAQs.

Good study habits must begin even before the first class! Check off each item below as your summer at ATDP approaches.

• Review this Family Guide
  You're doing it right now! Well done!
  
  
• Complete your Enrollment Form - due Monday, May 19
  Review the policies and procedures below before agreeing to enroll. See the Course Placement tab in your online account for details and tuition payment instructions. Need to withdraw? See Withdrawal & Refunds.
  
  
• Register for Explorations
  Optional. Students may sign up for Explorations online workshops & classes. You'll find the online Explorations Registration Form in the Forms section of your online account.
  
  
• ED Welcome & Orientation Online
  Recommended, optional. On Sunday, July 10, we will be organizing an online presentation of our Elementary Division Orientation to welcome students and families and provide updates. Please keep an eye on our News page for details as they become available!
  
  
• Review the Welcome Letter from your instructor
  Three weeks before the start of classes, instructors will have their Welcome Letter available to download, which will include more information about the daily class schedule and supplies.
  
  
• Obtain supplies
  Each course will specify whether there is a shopping list and/or a supply kit. This information can be found in the Course Placement tab of your online account. The shopping list will be part of the Welcome Letter from your instructor. If your course includes a supply kit, families will need to pick it up the weekend of June 26 and June 27. Supply kit pickup information will be communicated to families in early June.
  
  

  NOTE: If your course has supplies that must be distributed by your instructor, you have to attend one of the Supply Pick-up Days. If you can’t be there, then you may pay an administrative shipping fee of up to $45.00. We cannot guarantee that shipped supplies will arrive by the start of class.

Requesting a Change in Course Placement

All communications regarding changes in course selection or placement must be in writing and sent to the ATDP office through the online Modify Course Selection form. You can find links to this online form in the Course Placement tab of your online account. You may only request courses for which you have not already been considered. You may also use this form to request to be added to the wait pool for a currently closed class or to request a second course (completing grade 4, 5, or 6).

Give the Director at least ten business days to review your request and do not send more than one copy of your request. We often need to wait for spaces to open up before we can make course changes, so please be patient. We will make changes until the second week of June.

If you are requesting a course change and are planning to decline your current course placement, please act promptly in submitting your Modify Course Selection form. We will send you a new course placement notice if we are able to accommodate your request. You will then have ten business days to accept or decline the new offer.

Withdrawals & Refunds

If you decide not to accept your course placement, you must select the appropriate option on the online Enrollment Form (in the Forms tab of your account). The form must be submitted no later than Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, (Early and Standard window applicants) or within 2 weeks of your course placement offer (Extended window applicants), but please complete it as soon as possible so that another student can be placed in the class. If you need to withdraw after you have completed your Enrollment Form, please email your written withdrawal notice to ATDP.

Prior to the full refund deadline (June 9th, 2021), payments are refundable. After this date, refunds are subject to the Refund Schedule; see below. No refund will be made in the case of a student who fails to attend classes or is withdrawn from ATDP for failure to meet the standards of appropriate behavior, including completion of homework. Students with outstanding balances after July 1st, 2021 will be automatically withdrawn from the program without refund.

• All withdrawals from the Program must be made in writing (email).
• Withdrawal date is the email date.
• The refund amounts indicated are based on tuition paid in full.
• If paying in installments, refunds are issued only if tuition paid to date exceeds the refund amount according to the percentages above.
• Refunds will be issued by the end of August.

Live online class meetings

All students are expected to attend online meetings via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Students are expected to abide by all ATDP policies, including those regarding behavior, academic integrity, and attendance (see Program Policies) no differently than if attending an in-person class. Students who anticipate any problems in meeting the technology requirements of online class meetings must inform ATDP as soon as possible. (List these in the 'Concerns' section of your online Enrollment Form.)

Technology malfunctions or other difficulties that prevent full participation in class may constitute an absence and are not the responsibility of ATDP. Even provided good faith efforts on the part of the student and of ATDP to resolve technical issues, missing too much live class time may affect the student's grade, affect eligibility for a recommendation of credit, or result in dismissal from the program without refund.