<p>Walnut: I have a lot of friends who took Integrated Science – beware, this course is extremely challenging and time-consuming! It is, however, good preparation for molecular biology if that’s your interest. It’s pretty poor preparation in physics, and I don’t know how good it is for chemistry.</p>
<p>Definitely stick with MAT 201. You’ll need multi for all kinds of science (including Integrated), and 203 would be overkill.</p>
<p>Spanish can take up a lot of time, so if you’re placing into the middle of the sequence you may want to wait until you have a freer semester.</p>
<p>I agree that you should probably take a humanities class, just for variety’s sake.</p>
<p>Derivate: It’s a tough call, since you’re starting off at the very beginning of a language sequence and you’ll typically want to finish those up by the end of sophomore year. However, if they offer 101 in the spring you may want to consider it. (It sucks that you got stuck with the writing seminar!)</p>
<p>I’ve given more thought to what I’d like to study. If I’m allowed, I’ll take the following:</p>
<p>CHI 101 Elementary Chinese
FRE 207 Studies in French Language & Style
RUS 101 Beginner’s Russian
MAT 103 Calculus
CHM 201 or 207 General and Advanced General Chemistry resp.</p>
<p>If this is approved and I find that taking Chinese and Russian concurrently is manageable, I’ll keep the five. Otherwise, I’ll drop Russian.</p>
<p>Yah, I will try to get those 5 classes, but if not I will drop French and start it my sophomore year. I mean, I really don’t have a choice. I have to do Math 215. I have to do the writing seminar. I want to do the Humanities sequence.</p>
<p>I mean, I know it’s Princeton, but haven taken 4 years of Spanish (although a tad bit rusty on grammar), taking a first semester of French isn’t THAT much more work.</p>
<p>Plus if it helps, I have been reading up on some basic Analysis, so I’ll be able to hit the ground running.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of taking:
MAT 201 Multivariable Calculus
ECO 101 Intro Macroeconomics
POL 240 International Relations
CHM 215 Advanced General Chemistry</p>
<p>I’m thinking of majoring in econ. I have a 5 in AP Macroecon but I would like to solidify my knowledge of the subject… is this a good idea? I would take ECO 100 in the spring.</p>
<p>POL 240: I’ve always been interested in the subject but I’m not sure if freshmen usually take this course. </p>
<p>CHM 215: I have a 4 in AP Chem. Would I need to take any placement exams? Also, which science classes w/lab do people usually take to fulfill the two ST course requirements for AB? </p>
<p>And what do you guys think of my schedule? Is it too less or too much?</p>
<p>muffinish- I think youre schedule is fine as far as work is concerned, but I found it helpful to mix up class sizes/types. You have 3 large lectures, and a math class. It might be nice to replace one of them with a smaller class, perhaps a seminar of some sort. There is a class for people who have APd out of econ, but don’t want to move up to the next level. That may be worthwhile.</p>
<p>If you have a 5 on BC, I’d give 201 a try–it’s really not too bad, and FRS and MUS won’t take up too much of your time. Russian is very tough from what I hear, though.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so glad, I’ve found this because I really need a lot of help with my schedule. Now I know that we don’t decide until we get on campus and that I have time to take what I want, but there are just so many classes I want to take…</p>
<p>So far I have:</p>
<p>CHM 215 Advanced General Chemistry
MAT 103 Calculus
NEU 258 Fundamentals of Neuroscience
POL 240 International Relations
RUS 101 Beginner’s Russian
HIS 211 Europe from Antiquity to 1700
…and I also signed up for FRS (which were all basically about history)</p>
<p>Oh, and I’ve been assigned a fall writing seminar, ahah. </p>
<p>So obviously I can’t take all of these. Keeping in mind that I’m most likely going the pre-med track, and that I realllly like IR/History/Neuroscience, what do you guys recommend as the best combination of classes?</p>
<p>^I assume you haven’t fulfilled the foreign language requirement. If that’s true, then keep in mind that Rus 101 (or any introductory F.L. course) is only offered in the FALL and Rus 102 in the SPRING. So unless you want to wait until sophomore year to begin completing your F.L., I would suggest keeping Rus 101.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I already knew that, RUS 101 is one of my classes that isn’t subject to change, I need to knock out the language requirement, but thank you for the advice!</p>
<p>Math 215
Hum 216
Hum 217
Writing Seminar
French 101</p>
<p>Okay, so although this seems like a lot, I will try it. If my adviser doesn’t let, I have decided I will drop French. Plus, I can try to audit the French class to at least learn the material so perhaps in the spring or the following year, I can place into a higher French class when I have adapted more to Princeton and perhaps can handle a tougher course load.</p>
<p>^ Oh by audit, I mean very informally sit in the class and learn the French. I suppose if that doesn’t work out, there’s nothing stopping me from learning the language by myself from some software or something so I can catch up and take the next French class spring semester.</p>
<p>I was thinking:
CLA 218/HIS 218: The Roman Republic
MAT 201: Multivariable Calculus
HIS 380: The United States and World Affairs
ANT 215: Human Adaptation
and the writing seminar American Revolutions.</p>
<p>@Christian Soldier: Professor Mann teaches ANT 215 and he is a PHENOMENAL professor. I sat in on his Human Evolution class when I visited and loved it. I also have heard nothing but rave reviews about him.
5 classes? isn’t that a bit much? Well, only you know if you can handle; I just know I couldn’t. Also, I might be in your math class.</p>
<p>@crystal91: That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I have heard from many people that biting off more than they could chew first semester freshman year was one of their worst academic mistakes. Better ease in than jump into the deep end.</p>
<p>alright, so maybe this is a stupid question but since we’re only going to have our schedules finalized after we get to campus and meet with advisers, are we supposed to get textbooks in the window between the finalization and class starting?</p>
<p>btw, i’m looking at
EGR 191
EGR 192
CHI 101
CHM 201
Writing seminar
as my fall schedule. too much [try to shift writing to spring?] or will i be ok. . ?</p>
<p>Yeah, you get your textbooks in the few days before classes start–you won’t really need them till Monday anyway.</p>
<p>And that schedule looks pretty painful–EGR 191/192 is the engineering math/physics thing, right? I’ve heard that’s not too bad, but that, Chinese (which is very tough) and writing sem might be a lot–writing sem isn’t all that difficult, but it’s a lot of work.</p>