taking an easier class to boost GPA？

newmassdad
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:31:46 +0000

I won’t advise anything. :)

Each kid approaches UofC and its courses in different ways. Fortunately, students have lots of flexibility the first week or two (but watch out - courses are fast paced, and it is hard to catch up if you join the class too late.

So perhaps a better way of viewing the situation than listening to advice like “take 3 classes” or “starting every quarter with 4 courses” is to view the first week or two as a chance to shop around - you might even start by attending 5 or 6 courses, then narrow the field to what seems like the best fit.

One advantage to “shopping” is that what’s hard/easy, boring/exciting and such varies a lot from student to student. First hand experience is the only way to get your own, personal, grip on these issues.

You might even end up like my D did one quarter her 3rd year: She could not decide which Spanish course to take, so she started attending two grad level and one upper undergrad one. She liked each so much that she stayed with all three! (Plus something else plus lab research. Yes, it was a tough quarter!).

Even closed classes rarely stay closed. In fact there was not one time where my D could not finally get into a course she wanted during her 4 years.