HELP Confusion with UC Transfer

I’m confused. Why are you taking so many extraneous courses? And you’re not taking them by priority - in other words, kicking the IGETC language to summer, where you risk non-admission, is not something to do.

All you need to fulfill your political science major are 3 courses! Plus, finishing up whatever IGETC isn’t fulfilled via AP. Looking over the list, it seems to me your AP fulfills:

1 English
Quantitative math (stats AP)
3 social sciences (psych AP, microeconomics AP, and US govt AP)
1 arts and humanities (US History AP)
1 physical science (env science AP and Physics AP)

What I see you needing is:
1 English
2 arts and humanities
1 life science (with lab?)
1 language
3 poli sci/history courses for your major

(BTW, one of those history courses for your major may also fulfill humanities IGETC- you’ll have to look)

That’s 8 courses.

Now you need to reach a certain unit count, obviously, and you still have room within this framework to add some other poli sci/econ to show interest in your major.

However, there’s no point in going bat-s**t crazy. It is very likely, if you are accepted as a one year, they will make demands regarding the last term, such as all courses must be a 3.2 each. And don’t think it will be a breeze, because the bones of people who have said this in the past and then got rescinded, litter the landscape.

And Berkeley will rescind you for one infraction, I’ve seen it many times.

It’s not a race to show how much you can do. My advice is get the courses done you need to do by next spring. That’s the priority. Then, don’t overload the last term. There’s no real gain, but plenty of potential loss. You can then ask the UC after acceptance if you can take a couple courses at the CCC during summer. Don’t even put any summer courses in the application, in case Berkeley decides to include it in the provisional.

Keep your eye on the prize and don’t get carried away.

P.S. US HIST AP can be used for area 3 or 4, as you indicated.