is 18 credit hours too much for a freshman

ucbalumnus
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:19:03 +0000

aunt bea:

I’m always amazed at students who assume that the level of instruction at a university is the same as at a high school.

Some of them may be assuming that 6 high school AP courses = 6 college courses. However, many of the high school AP courses take a whole year to cover what the emulated college course covers in a semester (e.g. calculus AB, statistics, psychology, chemistry, environmental science, US government, etc.). College course format is also different in requiring the student to have more internal self-motivation and time management, so that the new college student needs to make this adjustment in his/her first semester.