Thanks for your reply. I think I will probably choose the CCC route. Do you think it is a better idea to take organic chemistry at the community college level or could I get away with having that as the only prereq left? I do not want to risk having a poorer foundation in organic chemistry when I go on to my upper division classes and I also plan to apply to vet school. So, they may look down upon my choice to take ochem at a CC as an easy way out of a hard class. If I take ochem instead, I won’t complete physics because that is too heavy of a load for me.
On the other hand, if I don’t get into UCSD and I don’t have ochem completed, I may not be able to take upper division courses until it is completed. But this may also be true for UCSD, I’m not sure. Using this website, it shows that for molecular biology and microbiology, that ochem can be taken concurrently:
http://plans.ucsd.edu/