<p>I highly, highly doubt the information you received is what you may have interpreted it to be. Because I know for a fact that there have been OOS students that are rejected for not having 60 units or meeting the math or English requirements. If you go through some of the older acceptance threads you’ll see this. I think you should call and talk directly to an admission officer at a UC, someone who actual evaluates the UC applications and makes the admission decision to clarify. You can call admissions for any of the UCs and they’ll connect you through to one. </p>
<p>Perhaps, they only look for the basic requirements and pre-reqs and ignore the rest until later, but I highly doubt they don’t look at ANY of your courses until after they make their decision. The whole post-decision process is simply sending in your transcripts for them to verify the information matches what you self-reported on the UC app. It’s not to evaluate you for basic requirements.</p>