Not taking math first semester of college?

kiddie
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:20:36 +0000

It can be fine -my daughter went in undeclared and so did not take math her first semester and then took calc 2 her second semester and it was fine (she even declared as math/econ and having not taken a math class one semester is no problem).

However, having 4 humanities classes may be a problem for a different reason - lots and lots of reading and writing! If each of these classes requires a paper each week and 100 pages of reading each week (or possibly an entire book)- will you be able to do it all. I think a balanced schedule (especially first semester) where some classes are reading intensive and some are not - is probably better. Although my daughter had no math class - she had a balanced schedule - one class was pretty reading intensive, one was writing intensive, one had problem sets (econ), and one was watching films - so she was able to keep up with the volume of work.