<p>“jars, are you taking 5 courses per quarter? Do Caltech people take more or
less courses per quarter as they move up in academic status?”</p>
<p>Depends on who you are I think…? I get the feeling that some people take a lot of unnecessary classes and stock up on units while others just take as many as they need to graduate (we only need to average 40.5 units per term, but people, at least from my perspective, seem to all take 48+). I’ve heard that after core, there is a lot more freedom and possibility of taking it easy though while before you’re really stuck taking like 48+ units (I think I agree with this).</p>
<p>As for me, I took 7 courses first quarter, but two were PE’s (48 units). This term I’m taking 6 academic courses and a PE (51 units). Spring term I’ll probably take 6 academic courses and a PE for 54 units. Then fall I’ll probably take 49 units, 6 academic, one PE. I think someone mentioned this also, but depending on your PE, it could be much more than 3 units. I’m doing tennis and it is decidedly not 3 units. It’s probably going to be 2.5 hours M-F and maybe saturday, not including the rest I like to take afterwards.</p>