<p>I am going to suggest that sometime people’s obsession of not wasting time is not necessarily the best course and I would not trade my 5 years spent getting a 4 year degree for anything. I graduated from SFSU 30 years ago with a BSN. I did not start there.</p>
<p>I began a UCSC which does not even have a pre-med/health courses nor Chemistry for health majors so to meet the chem requirements, I took 3 quarters of inorganic and 1 quarter organic chem. I took my psych classes there and was taught by an amazing professor Elliot Aronson, a top regarded Psychologist in social psychology. It was a life changing class!
Since UCSC didn’t have anatomy and physiology, I took it at the local CC Cabrillo college, again a life enhancing experience with real cadavers.</p>
<p>I applied to SFSU and entered in the soph year after spending 2 years getting prereqs that could have been done in 1 year at SFSU. If I had started at SFSU I would have missed the chances to take classes elsewhere that to this day, have changed my life.</p>
<p>If you love art (or any other major), go someplace with a great art program but where you can still meet your prereqs. Don’t worry so much about “wasting” time.</p>