Question about credit limits for UC's

I am in my first semester at community college and am planning to transfer to the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. There is an 89 credit limit when transferring. I have to take a couple of math classes and a chemistry class as prerequisites to get me up to speed in order to take my transferrable classes such as calculus. I added up all the classes I would need to take plus these prerequisites and it comes out to over 89. It is impossible to take all the classes required for admission plus my math and chemistry prerequisites. Do prerequisites such as trigonometry not count towards this limit? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

as explained on the UC website, if you take all your classes at a CC the limit just means that after you hit the unit cap you get subject credit for classes you take but no additional UC units towards graduation. You can have 500 units, all taken at a CC, and you will still be eligible to transfer to any UC campus.

Also I have no idea where you pulled this “89 credit limit” from. UC actually says "Students will be granted up to 70 sem/105 qtr units of credit "

He might be talking about high-unit junior transfer, but that requires upper division courses. At 90 units (including upper division), they become a high-unit junior.