<p>My only evidence is based off of just searching for minor requirements from San Jose State (since that's my backup school) and just asking friends who might not be informed enough to be authorities.</p>
<p>It's not really important at this moment whether an associates degree is equivilent, lesser, or better than a minor, but having the AA/AS is for me as a transfer as Stanford prefers you've already graduated or will graduate with at least a two-year degree for transfers.</p>
<p>You could be correct that minor > AA/AS, and you might have enough units for a minor. Check with the department you wish to minor in. Sometimes you get "freebies". For example, at SJSU, if you're in Computer Engineering, if you take 1-2 more math classes, you get a math minor.</p>
<p>I have so many AA/AS because I really love to learn. For example, I had to take honors sociology as apart of my honors requirement, and just that class alone was so enjoyable, I wanted to study more sociology. Oh, and the social science was a freebie; if you take like 4 courses in science, psychology, and some other stuff, you get it.</p>
<p>How I did all of this was just go through the degrees I'm interested in, and see how much I can overlap classes and just do the core/electives. For example, CS and "computer software development" is very similiar (except that CSD doesn't require calculus), and psychology and sociology shares <em>some</em> classes. Also, the psych/sociology classes were also applicable towards my GE.</p>
<p>I wish I could contribute more to this forum, but my knowldege is primarily on Stanford and what they might be looking for.</p>