@ucbalumnus yes it can mean that, for sure. My kid made a list of required and pre-req classes for 4+ potential majors (and one pre-professional program with specific class requirements) and tried to kill as many birds with each stone, as it were, as she could, while also exploring classes of interest to her.
Fortunately there was a lot of overlap, and though she didn’t take even “intro to” her eventual major until her second year of college, she had no trouble completing her major on time. In fact, early. But she didn’t have gen-eds to reckon with - that helps.