Is 17 credits my first semester too much?

LunaHunt
Wed, 20 May 2015 04:47:24 +0000

Right now I am at 14 credits in the fall, but that seems a bit light, so I was thinking of adding an additional course, increasing the credits to 17. I’m planning to take:

SIS Mentorship Program (0 credits)
World Politics (3)
Cross-Cultural Communication (3)
Community Based Research Lab (1)
Microeconomics (3)
French Elementary 1 (4)

I am considering adding Western Philosophy (3) to the load, rounding my course load out to 17 credits. I took French previously in middle school/high school for 3 years, but haven’t taken it for 2 years now. Although I have some memory of it, I don’t know enough to skip any classes. I’m thinking that French will not be all that difficult for me this semester.

I’m hoping to double major in International Studies and Philosophy, so getting more courses out of the way would be beneficial. That being said, I’m planning on going to grad school now, so keeping a high GPA is very important to me. For some background info, I took 3 AP classes my junior year, and 4 my senior year and maintained a 4.0 throughout high school. I know college will be more difficult than high school, but is a 17 credit course load my first semester doable with a high gpa, or am I setting myself up for disaster?