<p>Has anyone ever taken 5 or 6 classes a semester? I'm going to UCM and I want to take 5 classes. How difficult do you think this will be?</p>
<p>5 classes is the norm. I took 6 classes for 4 semesters, and it wasn't bad. Depends on your time management skills.</p>
<p>5 classes is the norm where I go. 6 classes may be too much to handle, depending on the type of classes and whether or not there are extra labs and discussion groups.</p>
<p>Depends entirely on what classes, your own abilities and habits, which teachers, and which school.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how you expect other people to answer this. I've taken anywhere from 5-7 classes in a semester and done fine.</p>
<p>The number of classes really doesn't matter at a lot of colleges, because there are many 1 credit classes and a number of 5+ credit classes. So in order to weigh in, I feel that I need to ask how many credits that equals and what the classes are.</p>
<p>depends on the major...</p>
<p>I took 15 hours my first semester and then proceeded to go higher. I never found 24 or 27 hours to be a problem. (I'm taking a huge load this fall because I didn't finish things this summer, and I wish I had the stamina I had when I was younger.) But I was generally taking a number of courses I liked and was good at. If I had had one of a number of different majors, or if I were taking a large number of distribution credits that way, I think it might have been a problem.</p>
<p>Figure out how many classes/hours/credits/whatever your school requires you to take, and divide them by however many semesters or quarters the school would have you in in the course of four years. That's how many classes/hours/credits/whatever you are expected to take this semester or quarter. They want you out in four years for many reasons, so they think everyone can handle that many. See what is the maximum number of classes/hours/credits/whatever you are allowed to take without obtaining someone's signature (beyond whatever anyone has to sign for any student who is not taking an overload). That's the maximum number of c/h/c/w they expect you to be able to handle. I don't recommend taking more than that in your first semester.</p>
<p>And keep in mind that most schools are planning for students who don't have jobs. Depending on how many hours you are working for someone else, you may not be able to manage the maximum number of credits they expect people to be able to take: that number will usually be calculated for a student whose only "job" is school.</p>
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:O Wow! How do you manage to do that? Do you not have a job and social life? Not trying to sound rude....</p>
<p>that's okay. And it depends on the classes, too. Some classes have large labs and stuff so you can say you're taking 4 classes but taking as many hours as 8 classes. Man, you non-engineering/science majors are lucky...</p>
<p>This was when I was younger. I was lucky enough not to have to work, although I did tutor students whenever they came along. And I socialized mainly with people who were doing the same kind of work I was, including grad students and faculty, and most of us were geeky enough that we'd mix work and play. And a lot of the work really did seem like play to me: easy and fun.</p>
<p>Right now, having withdrawn from my summer classes for medical reasons, I'm trying to figure out how much I can manage in the fall. If I do what I was supposed to do in the summer, how much of what I had intended to do in the fall can I do as well? I have to confess that I don't really think more than 6 or 7 classes is do-able, and 7 is probably pushing it. That's with some work, but not full-time (I'm lucky at the moment), and probably no social life to speak of.</p>
<p>The biggest overload I took recently was a full-time courseload with a full-time job and two part-time jobs, and that pretty much killed me.</p>
<p>One of the things that's interesting to me about CC is how many people here appear to be intelligent <em>and</em> hardworking <em>and</em> performing well in school <em>and</em> holding outside jobs (whether for money or not). This is not the impression I've gotten from undergraduates I've taught or sat next to in class in the last 10 or 15 years. Now, I realize that some people are still in high school and I realize that some people's work habits take a dramatically different turn when they start college, and I realize that I'm dealing with a pretty specific subgroup of students generally; and I also realize that the students I tend to notice in other places are the ones who demand the most attention and cause the most problems. But it's really kind of nice to find people like you (which is why I'm sticking around for awhile), because it's a reminder that people like you exist. Even though this is exactly the sort of site that my mother and everyone at my high school would have loved back then -- and I definitely did not like the approach to college any of those people took -- which means I wouldn't have liked it at all back then.</p>
<p>It depends on how many hours they are worth. Five 3-credit hour classes are a good and average amount; very doable.</p>
<p>We're not allowed to take more than 4 classes, which is pretty nice. 6 classes in high school was hectic enough.</p>
<p>Be aware that most of the people giving advice on this board or somewhat like superhuman beings seeking entrance to ivy league colleges, so if they say it's easy then you should still be aware of your own limits. Go easy your first year and then take more classes the next year if you really want to.</p>
<p>5 classes is considered normal? For upper division, perhaps...</p>
<p>4 is pretty standard for lower division here.</p>