| Ok, so last year, I got admitted to Cal for spring and UCLA for fall. I always knew since 9th grade that I wanted to be a bio major, but that I would want to double major. For a long time, I thought I would double major in South Asian Studies. I looked into the programs at both schools. The program at Cal is controlled by the department of South and Southeast Asian studies, and the program at UCLA is just a minor that the South Asian student groups at UCLA had to petition like hell to get. Because the South Asian studies major does not exist at UCLA, UCLA does not really have a need to offer South Asian languages. At Cal, because the South Asian studies program is huge relative to other universities, they have a lot of professors and many professors end up teaching various South Asian languages. Though in most cases, there is only professor for a language ex. Bengali, Tibetan etc and an intro language may only be taught every couple years... Upon getting here at Cal, I read up more on the South Asian studies program, and realized the prereqs involved taking R&C courses that I don't need due to my IB English HL score, and hence I am probably not going in that direction. | 
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