Should I change my major?

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I'm in community college and was planning on transferring to Berkeley and then going to grad school for College Counseling. My counselor is pressuring me to change my major from media studies to psychology because there are a few psychology classes that are recommended preparation for grad school. This will make me take a year longer to transfer. Plus, I'm not passionate about psychology. I want to instead take those few psychology courses that would be expected and major in what I want. The problem is that legislation in California was passed that every student must be placed in an associate to transfer degree program unless they opt out. I said I wanted to opt out, but still was placed in the psychology associate to transfer degree program. Following this student education plan would mean I have to take classes I don't need to transfer for the major and grad school program I want.

Ugh. Should I just go with the flow and change my major? I mean, they already changed it for me on the computer. I was told I could seek a similar major instead, like sociology. Grrr. I don't really want a sociology associates either, though.