<p>One caveat regarding the advice you have received at Cal. In my DDs experience, she got a fair amount of conflicting advice from person to person and was very frustrated. I did a great deal of CC & SDN research and was able to give her much better advice which worked for her personal desires as to which classes she wanted to take and when as well as it all coming together to get into med school. </p>
<p>That does not mean there are not good advisers there, she just did not happen to meet them.</p>