AHeartLikeHis

This fall I am taking:
Trigonometry (3 credits)
Public Speaking (3 credits)
English Composition (3 credits)
Principles of Biology and lab (4 credits)
Psychology (3 credits)
Total: 16 credit hours

This spring I will be taking:
Precalculus (3 credits)
English Composition 2 (3 credits)
Principles of Chemistry and lab (4 credits)
Zoology and lab (4 credits)
U.S. History (3 credits)
Total: 17 credits

Summer I am contemplating whether to take 1 class or 2 which should I take? Both? Just one?:
Principles of Chemistry 2 (4 credits)
Analytical Geometry and Calculus (4 credits)

The summer is from June 11th-July 29th.

leah377

are these your college classes or high school?

innokus

You might want to lighten up your fall courseload to 13 credits, probably through dropping public speaking. If you're certain you can handle the workload then go ahead and keep that schedule. Just be prepared to put a lot of work into trig, bio/ lab, and psych. It's always recommended for freshmen to take a light load until they get their work habits in order.

For the spring semester you should know if you can handle that courseload.

Don't take Chem 2 and Calc 1 during the summer unless you have a strong chem or calc background. Chem 2 is heavily math based and will require a lot of work. Calc will require a lot of time to understand the abstract concepts unless you are excellent at math. Don't kill yourself during summer. You should do chem 2/ public speaking or Calc 1/ public speaking during summer.

AHeartLikeHis

College classes...hence the fall, spring, and summer.

Alright, thats what I thought about the summer (I will just take Chem 2).

This fall will be exactly whats posted. I am very strong in all of those courses except the Trig. So, that will be fine.

awb1989

I don't think 16 credits is bad at all for a first semester freshman. But I would probably hate taking two writing-heavy classes (pub. speaking and English) and two more classes with some papers too (Bio and Psych). But that might just be me.

For the spring, that's not bad, but again I might dread USH + English with the amount of reading/writing, but to each his own.

As to the summer, Chem would probably kill you if you took it as a summer class (from what I've heard/seen, at least...). I wouldn't worry about Calc1 in the summer, though. Calc2 is tough to squeeze into a summer class, though. Calc2 is said to be way harder than following classes like Calc3/Linear Algebra (if you're even planning to take that much math). If it's Calc2, though, you should probably take it in the fall or spring.

leah377

at my school, people generally advise you to take harder requirements during the summer because it's supposed to be easier that way and you have fewer other classes to focus on.

innokus

Is it safe that to assume that you are premed due to your Bio/Chem classes? If you are premed, don't take Gen Chem during summer where it can screw you up. Take it during the year so that you have a strong foundation for Orgo.

awb1989

Yeah, but squeezing something like infinite series into 1-2 weeks can be pretty absurd, and there's absolutely no time to fall behind at all. I'm sure the same can be said about certain topics in Chem/Bio/etc., but I haven't taken those classes anyway.

AHeartLikeHis

Nope...I am majoring in Biology to teach High School Biology

lethargytm

wow 13 credit hours is seriously too little. even 15 is small. 16-19.

lnguyen

why would you ask if it's alright then criticize people that try to help you? if you think you can handle it, you wouldn't post it in the first place and ask...... unless you want to "brag" about your sched, but then i wouldn't see why you would want to.

lethargytm

who are you referring to? and first post is on here?