<p>^ very true. A lot of the CalSO counselors I encountered were non-science majors and didn’t have experience advising for pre-med for instance. I am assuming that since CoE has their own separate CalSO the counselors there are either engineering majors or have more experience in that… but anyway, the counselor (who was a haas student) told me not to take Chem 1A and Math 1A together because it’s too much hard to handle first semester. These two classes together are practically the norm for pre-meds!!</p>