18 credit hours too much for freshman?

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<p>Hey guys </p>

<p>so i just added an extra course to my 15 hour schedule, and i'm wondering if i'll be overdoing myself my first semester of college. Here's my course load:</p>

<p>English 161-normal english class (3 hours)
Chem 112-Regular chem track (5 hours, lab and lecture)
Anthropology 101- World Cultures (a requirement for the med program i'm in; 3 hours)
Hon 140- Bio/Medical Ethics (3 hours)
Hon 101-Honors Seminar (1 hour)
Math 210- Calc III (this is the one i'm kinda iffy about; 3 hours)</p>

<p>I haven't taken calc since AP Calc BC junior year, so i'll probably have to look over some stuff before hand. I don't have any part-time job, but I am interested in volunteering/research of some sort. would it be best to just wait and take the calc 3 course next semester?</p>

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<p>I optioned to take a 14 hour schedule just to ease in to college. You should be fine with 18 hours if you are willing to do the workload.</p>

<p>Although on research: you should really talk to people at your school about that.</p>

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<p>The hours tell you nothing about the workload. 18 hours of humanities is probably around ~12 hours of good ol’ engineering work. </p>

<p>Most of your classes, bar chemistry, look easy.</p>

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<p>Its on the heavy side for your first semester, I would take out either Anthropology or your Bio Ethics class. If this was your schedule for second semester, I would say its fine, but for now I feel its better to take a light load and focus on getting used to college.</p>

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No, it’s just about right.</p>

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<p>Med Program? Do you mean medical school? If so, then you need to keep your GPA up as high as possible. A couple of B’s could make a big difference. Stick to 15 credits. This is not high school any more. Check the sequences, do you need Calculus as a prerequisite for something else? That will help to decide whether to leave the calculus class for next semester, or the ethics.</p>

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<p>You can always try out your schedule for the first week and then drop any class that you think will be too complicated/time consuming.</p>

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<p>Cal III isn’t nearly as bad as Cal I or II anyways.</p>

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<p>Keep the schedule, but with the plan to drop the class that you like the least/will be least useful.</p>

<p>Also, you really don’t need to know a lot of stuff from BC calc to do good in Calc III. I also did AB/BC in junior year, and I took calc III freshman year of college, and I did fine. Most of the stuff built on stuff from AB calc…it might be a little helpful to review that</p>

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<p>thank you so much for your responses. i really appreciate it :slight_smile: </p>

<p>2bizee–it’s one of those ba/md programs, but i’ll need calc III to take p-chem later for my major. i guess my reasoning to take it now is because it hasn’t been that long since my last calc class. </p>

<p>theespys69-- if you don’t mind me asking, what was your course load like for freshman year?</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine</p>