<p>Let's hear some opinions. I'll be attending Baylor this fall and am having hesitations maxing my schedule out to 18 hours. If I was taking a normal freshman schedule with a declared major or strictly gen-ed classes, I would have no hesitations at all. But right now I'm walking a line between declaring Computer Science or Electrical and Computer Engineering, one of which I will declare in the spring, and thus taking both the introductory classes, along with the intro to CS lab and the chem. 1 lab. My biggest fear is that my four technical courses (CS and EGR into courses, chemistry, and cal2) might be too much of a workload. </p>
<p>I consider myself a smart guy; I don't have a ton of trouble intuiting technical concepts, work pretty efficiently, and am generally confident in my abilities. But I'll be completely honest, college is a completely new frontier to me (duh) and I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. So I'm asking you guys, who hopefully do, if I'm burying myself in a hole too deep from the start.</p>
<p>Don’t do it to start with; take 12-15 hours at most. Then, if you find yourself bored and unchallenged like I did my first semester freshman year, take however many courses you are comfortable with.</p>
<p>Lab courses are often more work than their credit value indicates.</p>
<p>You could register for all of those courses, but drop one if you find that the overall workload is too high after attending all of them for the first few weeks (before the drop deadline).</p>
<p>That would be a very heavy workload to take on as an incoming freshman. I’d recommend dropping one and possibly replacing it with an easier gened class.</p>
<p>Son just graduated with 2 BS’s in Engineering after 4 years- Horray for him. To keep on track he rarely took less than 18-19 credits a semester (even though he went in with 45 AP credits given to him by his college. Welcome to engineering!! He did great every semester and just kept up with all the work, reading, problems. Don’t allow yourself to fall behind in this major. Good luck.</p>
<p>Gen-eds, take them online over a summer from many CC and 4 year state schools!!</p>
<p>You need at least 15 credits per semester to graduate on time and 16 is the norm. 18 and with that schedule is pushing it. However you’ll have a drop add period: after 2 weeks, if you see that your sleep patterns and social life suffer beyond what is normal (ie., you’re constantly exhausted and only joined 2 clubs, the meetings of which you couldn’t attend) drop one of the classes. Also, a typical engineering schedule will have English/Freshman seminar during its first semester.</p>
<p>I agree I have a one week drop add period at my school. If you feel that your courseload is 2 much, drop a class if not keep as is.</p>
<p>I took 18 credits my freshman year of college:
Marching Band (1 Credit)
Honors General Chemistry (3 Credits)
Honors General Chemistry Lab (1 Credits)
General Biology I (3 Credits)
General Biology I Lab (3 Credits)
Honors Speech (3 Credits)
Honors English (3 Credits)
I got all A’s except a B in Honors English. I don’t think I worked that hard. It really isn’t that hard, I honestly think you won’t have much trouble.</p>