Any advice on setting up a schedule?

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<p>I'm an incoming freshman to HumEc, thinking of majoring in Policy Analysis and Management.</p>

<p>So far I've only relied on ratemyprofessor.com and the curriculum sheet to decide my classes, but I need more pieces of advice. I only know two of them: don't overload, and don't take too many classes that have a lot of reading.</p>

<p>Oh, and can you give your opinion on my tentative schedule? Thanx XD</p>

<p>GOVT 1111 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 Credit)
PAM 2100 - Introduction to Statistics (4 Credit)
PAM 2300 - Introduction to Policy Analysis (4 Credit)
SOC 1101 - Introduction To Sociology (3 Credit)
Freshman Writing Seminar (3 Credit)</p>

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<p>if you’re in HumEc, take DSOC 1101 instead of SOC 1101 - it’s the same thing, only it won’t count as an endowed credit.</p>

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<p>What’s an endowed credit?
I heard both DSOC and SOC classes are easy, but I heard the professor teaching SOC is better… and according to the curriculum sheet, taking either class can fill my distribution requirement.
Will there be any disadvantage for me if it doesn’t count toward as an endowed credit?</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure that all contract colleges (HumEc, ILR, CALS) have a limit on how many credits you can take in the endowed colleges (CAS, ENG, Hotel, Arch) bc you’re not paying as much as the kids in the endowed colleges. </p>

<p>although… if you’re out of state, tuition will be the same for both contract and endowed colleges so idk how that’s going to go.</p>

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<p>What limit??? I have never heard of this?</p>

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<p>I only know of the limit for CALS students. CALS students are allowed a maximum of 55 endowed credits (Eng, CAS, AAP, Hotel). After that you have to pay an addition per credit charge. Although, you can usually petition the registrar and have the charges dropped if you haven’t gone over by much.</p>

<p>It’s pretty difficult to exceed the limit…even with 3 years at Cornell I only took 39 endowed credits.</p>

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<p>^ dewdrop - oh, i’m in CALS, so that makes sense. although i thought HumEc was pretty strict too on endowwed credits. or maybe i’m just confusing it with AP credits.</p>

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<p>The DSOC professor was pretty nice and fair. She gave a lot of extra credit to so its very hard to get below a b in that class</p>

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<p>IIRC the limit is only for cals, humec doesn’t have the limit</p>

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<p>Does ILR have a limit?</p>

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<p>I’m an OOS so I won’t have any trouble?</p>

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<p>Is there a limit on how many credits that you can take per semester in all of the colleges?</p>

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<p>@cadmiumred: no. for CALS, the policy states that you can only take 55 endowed credits for them to count towards graduation. </p>

<p>i’ve heard the reasoning for that as: students have a lower tuition in the contract colleges, whether you’re in-state or out-of-state (instate is still loads cheaper than OOS, of course, OOS is only by a couple of thousand), than those in the endowed colleges. so you limit the amount of classes you can take in the endowed colleges - up until this year, the first part of the reasoning was true - OOS kids in contract colleges DID pay less than kids in endowed colleges. however, with this recession, they have raised tuitions (once more, like always) and now those of an OOS kid in a contract college is equivalent to those of any student in an endowed college. </p>

<p>i only bring up the question that… if that were true, how can they still justify limiting CALS students of how many endowed credits they can take? now, the reasoning that i have heard might not be true, but if it’s not true, then tell me the real reasoning and answer me this: then why is there a limit?</p>

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<p>I heard there was a 40 credit limit for ILR to take endowed credits. Is that true???</p>

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<p>bump… so does my schedule look fine? Will I have too much reading?</p>