<p>status: incoming freshman</p>
<p>ugba 10
chem 1a (5 on chem ap test)
math 16a (5 on calc bc ap test)
phil 6
geography 10</p>
<p>total 18 units</p>
<p>major: undeclared. hopefully haas+premed</p>
<p>is this too much? all (sincere) advice/criticisms welcomed :)</p>
<p>geography 10 will involve some tedious memorizing. There will be weekly quizzes on ~10 geographic features out of a list of 30-50 cities, capitals, countries, mtn ranges, and bodies of water.</p>
<p>Why are you taking math 16a with a 5 in BC?!?!?</p>
<p>bartleby - because it would be easy to get an A. also i might be applying to go to med school and i think they require 16a/b OR 1a/b</p>
<p>im premed too and i got a 5 on the BC too and i heard med school is fine with the 16 series or the 1 series but i am paranoid so i will take 1 to be safe...for some reason i was under the impression that haas had the 1 series as a prereq...hmmm</p>
<p>I think the volume of homework, labs, etc. will be too much. I would drop Geography. You are aiming for high grades, it's not worth the risk to overburden yourself.</p>
<p>I guess you will be one of the people who screws up the curve >.<</p>
<p>geography 10 wasn't that bad. Sayre lectures quite well and the research paper is graded leniently. The hard part about the paper was the topic... which was anything you want to write about. There are weekly map quizzes which is just memorization of 30-40 cities, countries, mountains, bodies of water in a region. Your GSI will only quiz on 10 things off the whole list though.</p>
<p>does anyone know how philosophy 6 is? the teacher seems all right, but what about the course load?</p>
<p>i really wanted to get out of a class and into a freshman seminar, but they're all either full or coincide with another class</p>
<p>18 units your first semester is too much, especially with the notoriously annoying UGBA 10.</p>
<p>bump. anything else? i thought that material for ugba 10 is suppose to be easy, just really hard competition</p>
<p>Most people, taking those courses, would be overwhelmed and end up getting poor grades, even with the AP course background. You might be an exception. You may have incredible time management skills, be a fast reader, even faster thinker and writer, and have inexhaustible energy.</p>