<p>Hi. I will be a freshman entering college this fall. I intend to major in Biology and declare myself as a premed student. I have registered to take Intro to Bio, Bio Lab, Intro to Chem, Calculus, and Psychology. This all add up to be 15 hours of credit. Is this too much for my first semester of first year? Should I drop Bio Lab and replace it with Economics? I have been told that taking a variety of classes is beneficial. However, I would love to read opinions of others. Thanks.</p>
<p>that's a very normal schedule, and you'll have bunches of premed friends with the same schedule. i would recommend taking another, smaller non-science course, because you might get bored.</p>
<p>yeah i would say try to take a humanities req instead of calc because taking all science/math classes is boring/hard</p>
<p>A mistake pre-meds often make is loading up with too many difficult courses their first and second semesters. That is why so many are no longer pre-med come sophomore year. </p>
<p>If you can, give yourself a break. Not all the courses have to be taken in the typical sequence. You will have a lot to adjust to in your first months, including a room and dorm situation that might not be very conducive to studying. Good luck!</p>
<p>That schedule is fine. I'm surprised at the number of people telling you that it's not manageable. I personally took intro bio, honors gen chem, and multivariable calc. my first semester and the majority of premeds at Cornell take intro bio w/ gen chem.</p>
<p>Thanks to all. I will take all of your experience into consideration.</p>
<p>Are you in CAS or CALS? You will have FWS too. If you're in CAS, you also have a language requirement.</p>
<p>I'm was in a similar situation, but I decided to hold off on psych until I got Latin out of the way. Which Calc are you taking?</p>
<p>professor maas, who teaches psych 101, has been teaching it forever (30+ yrs and that was 3 yrs ago). just a word of advice that no one knows how much longer he will teach. I rued the fact that I didn't take Human Bonding with Prof. Hazan, and now she is no longer teaching it for a while.</p>