<p>No, it is not true.</p>
<p>You can normally take up to 4.5 units’ worth of classes per semester, which in reality amounts to four classes (one class is usually worth one unit), or four classes and a seminar, or three classes and three seminars, or four regular classes and one reduced-credit class (you submit less assignments than the rest of the students and get half the credit), or something similar.</p>
<p>Most people prefer not to take four classes at once because it can be difficult to do well in all of them. Your advisor may try to discourage you from taking four classes in your first semester at Reed for that reason, but that will ultimately be your decision.</p>
<p>You can also petition to overload and take five (or even more) classes at once, but that option will only become available to you when you are a sophomore, and your GPA will have to be above 3.0 (or 3.3, I’m not sure). You will also have to come up with a good argument for doing that.</p>
<p>I have been overloading for two semesters straight now and it is doable. You need to be very good at time-managing and very invested in your studies, though. Most Reedies don’t believe it is a good idea as it tends to eat up your life.</p>