Hi, I also got admission to MA program last Thursday and got an email about funding yesterday.
"We expect to offer you a position as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the 2017-18 academic year. Such positions provide a monthly salary of approximately $2,065.20 (pre-tax) and carry with them partial registration fee/tuition remission. Specifically, based on Academic Year 2017-18 figures, GSI positions covered $8,546 of the total new student fee/tuition of $9,404.75 per semester. The program will pay the balance of tuition and fees not covered by the GSI position."
Since I am an International student, I assume that the GSI could cover the half of the tuition and I still have to pay the other half of the nonresidents' tuition.
Besides, do you know anything about the possibility for MA students to get into Berkeley's BIostat PhD program?