spring schedule-3 science classes at once?

siemprecuriosa
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:28:59 +0000

I took three science classes at once last year - orgo, physics, and bio - and it did not work well for me. I’m going to have to re-take one quarter of orgo because I didn’t get a grade high enough to count for my major (and a C- counts for my major, so that should give you an idea of how poorly I did). Even in the classes where I did well enough to get credit for my major, they were not at all stellar grades, my GPA suffered for it, and I’m worried about what grad schools will think about it.

To be perfectly honest, I could have worked a bit harder than I did. I fell behind in my classes, and it quickly became such an overwhelming amount of work that I became even more reluctant to jump into it.

But I think that even if I had put more work into it, it would have been exceedingly difficult. My orgo professor even told me that he had never heard of anyone attempting to take all three of those classes at once, and I guess this is why.

My school is on the quarter system instead of the semester system, though. I imagine it would be a little more doable on the semester sytem, since the quarter system is so ridiculously fast-paced.

Nonetheless, my advice to you would be that if you don’t have to take all these class at once, don’t do it. Why are you considering it? I get the impression it’s just because you “want” to get them all out of the way. If this is the only reason, I would seriously recommend against it. If you can spread these classes out over a couple years, do it.