<p>I took 18 the first semester, which is the most you can take at my school w/o petitioning the Dean of Students, and then you can take up to 20, if they allow. The recommended load 1st semester is 12-13 credits.</p>
<p>Next semester I’ll be signed up for 16, and take 19 if I get off the wait list for another class.</p>
<p>If you come in with 30 AP credits (which I did not), you can afford to take a smaller load each semester =P</p>
<p>How many credits is each class worth?</p>
<p>usually 3 or 4… they vary. my roommate had a 5 credit physics course last semester.</p>
<p>I took 15 credits last semester, had 15 credits worth in AP (one semester’s worth), and I’m taking 14 credits this coming semester… I currently have sophomore status!!! This coming semester I’m taking three 200-level courses, one health course (1 hour), and a writing seminar (100-level). Good classes again this semester, not too tough, magageable, should be able to get a bunch’a As (hopefully) if I buckle down and study and actually read the textbooks for a change.</p>
<p>My brother is taking 27 credits at college now.
He works a lot, but he is graduating in 3 years. I don’t think he’s stressed, though.
Freshmen:
Macroecon (4)
Calculus III (4)
Linear Algebra(3)
Freshman Composition(4)
Light/Heat(4)
American Culture(4)
Theoretical Physics Methods(4)</p>
<p>Wow, what is with all of these double-digit credits? And taking so many classes?! Crazy. My school awards 1 credit for each class, and .5 credits for things like music lessons. I took five this semester, and will take four next semester.</p>
<p>Sorry, should be credit hours.</p>
<p>13 credit hours
ANT 251 Phys. Anthro
ANT 252 Cult. Anthro
ANT 411 Anthro. Theory
ENG 246 Lit. of Holocaust
ECI 210 Intro to College Tutoring (no textbook for this. :)</p>
<p>wondering, what school are you at?</p>
<p>at most schools, taking 5 classes would be 15 credits, and 4 classes would be 12 credits.</p>
<p>You need 120 to graduate, so 120/8 semesters = 15 per semester = ~5 classes per semester</p>
<p>why is he taking 27 credits… 27/semester x 6 semesters = way more than 120…</p>
<p>I am taking 19 this quarter…I take about 18-20 on avg.</p>
<p>I am looking forward ot next quarter because it will be an “easy” 15.</p>
<p>soccerguy I am at Bryn Mawr. we need 32 credits to graduate. people generally don’t take more than 4 classes a semester unless they are insane or are working on a combined BA/MA in four years. an academic class is one credit; some, like intro language courses which have extra hours, are 1.5.</p>
<p>A triple major… math, econ, stats.</p>
<p>When I go back to school in the fall, I will take 18 credits. 3 credits each below:</p>
<p>Italian 4
Written French 1
Morphology
Intro to Creative Writing
Modern France 1
Chem for Non-Scientists</p>
<p>With the excpetion of Morphology, I don’t think that the classes will be that difficult, but it will be a lot of work. I’m a Linguistics major with a minor in French and possible minor in Italian. I like to write, love linguistics and languages but don’t care for modern history or chemistry–I have to fulfill reqs though.</p>
<p>Oh, if all goes well, this summer I will do an Intensive Hungairan course which is 6 credits…that will be hard but I have to take an off the wall language for my major and don’t have time to do it during the academic year (its 4 credits during the year, 6 in the summer)</p>