@sushiritto… It’s funny you said this. My advice came from my son, going into his sophomore year. Most classes are light in the beginning of the semester but if he was having problems with that workload then that would be a clear signal… One of the reasons my son wanted to take the amount of credits was since it didn’t cost anymore then might as well get value for your money. ;). His counselor told him to try it out and drop a class if it gets to much. He is in engineering. One semester he had physics and Chem… Each with a lab plus calc and a sociology course first semester. I thought it was too much but he did fine. Now he is actually scheduled to graduate early due to some courses he took this summer.