<p>How hard is it?
I’m going to carry lots of ap credits and I really want to start my major-related courses ASAP.</p>
<p>It could be incredibly easy or incredibly hard. Depends on your school and situation, if:</p>
<p>1) You have a Nazi adviser who hovers over your schedule.
2) There is some sort of restriction on the class–class standing, pre-req’s, majors only, etc.</p>
<p>I advise taking your GenEds immediatley. As it’s easy to get in over your head as a freshman. They put these classes as upper-level for a reason. And two, having to take GenEds in your Junior and Senior year with a bunch of freshman, and, by that point, you won’t care about trying to critically analyze Shakespeare when you have to write a ugrad thesis (depending on your school’s curriculum.)</p>
<p>Just take them and get them over with. Or at the very least, only take one or two major classes.</p>
<p>ETA: Eh…my post came out slightly bizarre and is only letting me edit half of it—so forgive any gibberish.</p>
<p>no way to know for sure. just got to talk to your college counselors</p>
<p>it probably won’t be difficult if you place out of intro courses with AP credit…</p>
<p>it was nice to jump directly into upper-level classes at my big public school because i got to have some smaller classes earlier on.</p>
<p>At my school, the registration system will not let you register for certain classes if you are a freshman…</p>
<p>Varies from school to school. Typically, AP credit will get some gen eds and pre-reqs outta the way for the upper level courses. However, at my school, registration is based on amount of credits. So while u mite hav enough credits to b a sophmore, u r competing with the juniors/seniors/sophmores with extra credits for the upper level courses.</p>
<p>At my school even if you have AP credits, you still cannot take upper level courses if you are a freshmen.</p>
<p>Most of the upper level classes have a requirement that you have 60 credit hours/upper division standing before you can apply. Some of them are open since I registered for one for the fall (going to be a sophomore) but then they have additional requirements such as 6 credit hours in government, etc etc. I dont know if they are open to freshmen.</p>
<p>You would have to check with your school since I am sure each one is different. </p>
<p>I agree with Platts, take the required classes as soon as possible then you can start taking the classes you really want to take because AP credits cannot take care of the core curriculum completely and upper division classes are always more interesting. </p>
<p>Also, it depends on what major you have on whether or not you can start classes in your major right away.</p>
<p>My school is small enough that there are a lot of exceptions made…this applies not only to intro btw. A lot of foreign kids take calculus in high school but didn’t take the AP, but got out of intro calc anyway. Myself I took a 2 courses my 1st semester soph year (an intermediate algorithms class and a database class) without taking their prerequisites (discrete math and software engineering). It was hell (and got B+ in the database) but I did really want to get them out of the way. It was a matter of convincing the professors.</p>