Have not fulfilled the UC's A-G requirements? Should I bother applying?

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<p>Okay, if anyone still wants to know, this is what Berkeley had to say:</p>

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We do not expect any student educated outside the US to have completed US history. The A-G requirements should be followed if possible, but if they are not offered in your school, you cannot be held accountable for them. We understand this as does our specially trained international application reading team. We have many applicants from India, so we have a lot of experience.

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<p>So US History doesn’t need to be taken at all… and the other requirements seem to be guidelines essentially.</p>

<p>The only problem I have now is that my school DOES offer Music. However, I will try to explain that it is not a mandatory course at our school and we are only allowed to choose a certain maximum number of courses per year… so I could not fit it in.
^ If I mentioned this in additional info, would that sound like an empty excuse or is it okay?</p>