<p>Students often take 3 courses in a quarter and I highly recommend it for the first quarter. My S, of course, didn’t listen to me and took 4. What some students do is to sign up for 4 and then drop the one that is least appealing after a couple of weeks. That was S’s plan. Unfortunately, he liked them all, and stuck with them. He did very well this quarter so I guess he know what he is doing, BUT, I still think 3 is the way to start off. </p>
<p>Given that 42 courses are required for graduation, one can enroll in 3 courses for some quarters and still graduate in 4 years without AP’s. The AP credit does help, however.</p>
<p>As for college credit earned during HS, this is from the Chicago catalog:</p>
<p>College Courses Taken during High School. Students may be eligible for college courses taken while they were in high school by petition to the Dean of Students in Winter Quarter. Credit is evaluated on an individual basis. To be considered for transfer credit, course work may not have been counted toward high school graduation requirements. Credit for science, foreign language, and calculus courses is awarded only by satisfactory performance on the appropriate placement or accreditation examinations taken at the time of matriculation. Transfer credit may not be used to meet general education requirements in humanities, social sciences, or civilization studies unless a student formally enters the College as a “transfer student.”</p>
<p>For more information see: <a href=“http://college-catalog.uchicago.edu/credit/index.shtml[/url]”>http://college-catalog.uchicago.edu/credit/index.shtml</a></p>