<p>Okay, I'm sure as many of you know, James Franco apparently took a 62 credit hour course load at UCLA. Do you think this is even possible? Is there anyone out there from UCLA who can verify this as true? Are there students at UCLA and perhaps other universities who have done comparable herculean feats? To be honest, if this can be done, I don't think I would take the academic program seriously if a student can successfully make it through a semester with such a load and still come out with a 3.5+ GPA--Einstein or no Einstein, it's just not possible. Please prove me wrong.</p>
<p>Isn’t that like two years worth of classes in one semester? Impossible.</p>
<p>holy hell, I really don’t think that’s possible.</p>
<p>besides, how would you deal with sequence classes? you can’t take calculus 2 and 3 at the same time…</p>
<p>Well, apparently, he was an English major, had a genuine passion for what he was doing, had no social life, and was sleep deprived; so, yes, I think it’s possible.</p>
<p>62 credits at UCLA = 41 credits elsewhere. Still mind-blowing but more realistic?</p>
<p>he’s an English major, it’s not like the classes are actually hard</p>
<p>41 seems almost possible. If that’s 41 credit hours and each class is 3 credit hours each, that’s about 13 classes. If one were to study and complete assignments from three classes a day, that translates to a little over four-five days work. </p>
<p>Thanks b@rlum for illuminating that.</p>
<p>That is a heavy schedule no matter how you look at it, but I think it’s even more impressive because it was taken in one QUARTER, not one semester. Students who are on the quarter system usually take LESS credits each quarter than someone on the semester system because they have three separate grading periods.</p>
<p>Wow. I don’t even know how that is possible, semester, quarter, or whatever.</p>
<p>I could see someone doing that in a year. Also, remember that UCLA is on the quarter schedule, so they have three trimesters during the regular academic year and one summer quarter.</p>
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<p>And that’s 41 credits in only two thirds of the semester, so basically like 62 credits.</p>
<p>It’s probably 14 or 15 classes, where the typical load is 3 or 4.</p>
<p>14 or 15 classes per quarter?!??! dude that’s alot even for people like me that don’t do anything but school work. i can understand 7 or 6 but doubling what i consider to be the utmost maximum in terms of classes per sem/quarter is insane.</p>
<p>Being an english major actually compounds it, not so much of the difficulty but on the sheer amount of papers, readings’, he will have to do. I don’t know how he was able to do it. They’re lying it’s impossible, unless he is a robot and didn’t need to eat or sleep.</p>
<p>If he is a fast reader and an efficient essayist (which he would assumably be if he is intelligent and has a true passion for English), I don’t see how being an English major compounds anything.</p>
<p>specfically in terms of pure numbers, assuming he reads a page per minute, and he reads around 300 pgs’ per week, which is the average for literature classes (my college at least), that equates to 300 min per week which is 5 hours (not bad). Now i will guesstamate the number of lit classes he is taking out of the 15 classes of which is going to be conservative. Lets say 4 out of the 15 classes will be lit, so 5(4)= 20 hours of pure reading per week. </p>
<p>There is 168 hours in a week, so that leaves 148. Now how many hours will be consumed in just attending the lectures and sections? Lets say his lit classes are 1 hour long so that is 4 hours of class time. For the heck of it lets make all of his other classes 50 min long so thats (50min * 11 classes left ~ 9 hours and 20 min) so 9.20+4 = 13.2 hours of total classes per week at the most conservative. 148 is what we had left when we subtracted the estimated time he would be doing just reading for his classes. so 148- 13.2 = 134.8. Divide that by 7 and that leaves around 19 hours of time per day he could sleep, eat, go to the toilet, and do his homework assignments for his other 11 remaining classes. </p>
<p>i say its very improbable.
especially if he is an english and creative writing major since that requires alot of time just formulating your thoughts and it actually requires alot of time just typing it into an academic format</p>
<p>You can CLEP out of many undergraduate classes, making 62 credits not impossible.</p>
<p>i thought we were assuming he took 62 credits by actually taking college classes</p>
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<p>You’re way off base here. I don’t know the intricacies of how many hours to class time in a quarter system, but in a semester, a 3 credit class meets for 3 hours a week. Ie mwf, 10-11.
Assuming 62 credits in a quarter is the equivalent of 41 credits in a semester (according to an above poster, that would be somewhere between 41 hours of class a week to 62 hours.</p>
<p>Not 13.2 like you said.</p>
<p>wonder what GPA he pulled off with that…</p>
<p>wow, what a loser.</p>
<p>dude, it’s college, look up from your textbooks and go meet some people</p>
<p>1 page per minute is pretty slow for many people.</p>
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<p>For dense, highly-academic readings? I don’t think so.</p>
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<p>It said >3.5, and do you not know who James Franco is?</p>