Berkeley L and S and IGETC

Transfer Students
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<p>Hey,
I have a pretty basic question about Berkeley's Letters and Sciences breadth requirements. If IGETC is complete, will I be clear of these requirements? </p>

<p>My school's assist.org page for Berkeley says this very specifically:
"Note: completion of IGETC (certified by your
community college) satisfies all of these requirements. See majors in other
colleges for their breadth requirements"</p>

<p>But, I would like to make certain of this, because 1) it seems way too good to be true, as IGETC is far less comprehensive than the L and S requirements, and 2) my school's catalog makes no mention that IGETC covers L and S requirements, and lists out the courses accepted by Berkeley for those requirements in each of the seven categories.</p>

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<p>if its quoted on assist.org, its obviously true</p>

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<p>i believe it's because you can do either the igetc or the L&S requirements, since they'll accept both.</p>

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<p>i talked to both coucillers in my CC and at berkeley... they don't really care about IGETC >.<</p>

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<p>In the sense that they don't care about it for admissions purposes, or that they don't care about it with regards to requiring you to do more lower division work once you arrive there? It is the latter that I am concerned about.</p>

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<p>that's strange. hm, i'm inclined to think that they don't care in the sense that just fulfilling igetc doesn't make you a competitive applicant, but it doesn't mean that you should ignore it either. clarification, guardiangel? my counselor never mentioned anything about berkeley /not/ wanting igetc.</p>

<p>i don't think they'll require you to do more lower division work, depending on your major. aren't they legally bound to accept your ccct credits?</p>

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<p>It depends on your major...the impacted majors that require allot of pre-reqs then IGETC would not be appropriate for those such as engineering...but for the majors like sociology, history...etc...then IGETC is just as competative as L&S...my friend got accepted last year using IGETC...she was a psych major</p>