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Do the more selective UC's care about the level of difficulty in GE courses? Say, for example, an English major chose to do a difficult biology or physics course over a "fluffier", easier class such as astronomy or anthropology. Does admissions like to see a more well-rounded applicant academically that has a greater range of success in multiple disciplines(ie: sciences that are more quantitative and objective in nature)?

The reason I ask is because I'm still debating internally whether I should pursue the pre-reqs for UCLA(psych/sociology double major) which includes general chemistry, a physics class, and an additional semester of math compared to UCB (my actual dream school) which does not.

Now, I don't have a strong interest in moving to southern California(currently in Sonoma County). My thinking is that if I did take UCLA's pre-reqs, my overall GPA would decrease(currently 3.76 after one semester) shooting down my chances of getting into either(getting high marks in biology and anatomy with all the lab hours seems daunting to me already, and those are Berkeley pre-reqs!). I just wonder if taking easier classes in place of those more difficult ones would hurt my chances. I mean, do they look at two prospective students transcripts with the same GPA and say, "Well, person A aced these notoriously difficult classes whereas person B took the easy way out with arts and humanities courses"?

Torrancecali

no.... it doesn't matter you could take any GE's