To take credits or not

silence_kit
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:19:25 +0000

take the credits for your gen-ed classes. this is a no-brainer. you won’t need to know US history to do well in your engineering program.

for classes related to your major, this is a tougher decision. it depends on how tough your college is, how good your high school class was, and how comfortable you are with the material.

a real-life example–i came in to college with a 5 on AP Calc AB knowing very little about calculus. i also took a calc II course at a local college. i knew how to calculate limits, derivatives, and integrals, but i didn’t really know what they meant or what they were good for.

i really got a lot out of my first calculus class that reviewed all of the calc I material and taught the calc II material in one course. i’m sure that if i went straight into calc III i would have done poorly in the course.