<p>I'm an incoming freshmen for undergrad and I was told by many people that for the first semester to only take like 12 hours so you can accustom yourself to college life. Then decide if you can handle more hours after that.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if only taking 12 hours would hurt me for graduate school admission. Most likely i plan on taking 15ish hours the rest of my time at college but I am kind of curious if the amount of hours is taken into account for grad school.</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>i feel really stupid… but this is actually a serious question.</p>
<p>First semester of Freshman year is serious business.</p>
<p>Take the normal freshman course load – whatever that is for your school.</p>
<p>Yea man. It’s Freshman year so go have fun- you’ll only experience it once and as long as you don’t completely blow off your studies, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I actually heard that this is serious stuff that does get taken into consideration. I have spoken to ‘admission tutors’ from various unis in London and they are told to be on the lookout for students who have for example:
1-kid with 3.7 gpa finishing an undergrad in 5 years (no work on the side)
2-kid with 3.7 gpa finishing an undergrad in regular 4 years (no work on side)</p>
<p>who do you guys think will get taken in first?
sad but yes they do look at this also…</p>
<p>I suppose they’d take whichever kid had more research experience.</p>
<p>EDIT: Taking 12 hours instead of 15 1st semester Freshman year would not affect how long it took him to graduate anyway. He could just take 18 hours a different semester, or 16 hours 3 other semesters, or whatever.</p>