<p>hi! i'm an incoming freshman from Korea and just scheduling my classes now.
i just wonder. how many 100-level courses did/do you take in your freshmen year?</p>
<p>4-5 per semester is good</p>
<p>it reallyyy depends on your college. at mine, 4-5 100-level courses 1st semester of freshman year is insane simply because 100-levels are the “advanced” courses here. you’d be better off asking in your college’s forum.</p>
<p>100-levels seem to be the easiest courses at your school, so I’d say 4-5.</p>
<p>It also depends what those courses are. 100 level calc, chem, and physics make for a tougher semester than 100 level psych, econ, and english.</p>
<p>^
That’s not neccessarily true. That’s a stereotype but unless you’ve taken all of the said courses I doubt you can make an informed decision. First, the average grade in all of those courses vary according to professor. But, if the professors curve the grade then calculus might not be as hard as economics. For example, if everyone in your class sucks at calculus then there will be a lot of “bumping” of grades. But, if everyone is strong in economics than there will be a lot of “dampening” of grades. </p>
<p>Rather than choosing courses by content, I’d choose courses by professor. The average for the same course taught by two different professors may differ by as much as 10%.</p>
<p>I thought you guys have to take 15 credits or so per term. So that’s around 5 courses right? Because, in Canada we need 120 credits to graduate. That’s around 30 credits per year. Unless you take summer school, you’ll need about 15 credits or 5 courses per term to graduate in 4 years.</p>
<p>But I only took 2 100-level courses because I had APs.</p>
<p>^Part of the reason intro chem, physics, and calc courses are so hard is because they are intended to weed out engineers and premeds. That tends not to occur in psych and english. Intro econ is usually not too bad unless you go to a school with an incredibly competitive business program to get into. The whole weed out aspect makes good grades tougher to come by as As are capped for the top 25% or so of the class while everyone is working really hard. I’ve never heard of a psych class or an english class to weed out or that was curved as harshly as an intro calc or chem course.</p>
<p>^ That’s true. But, those courses are further divided into different specializations based on their students. For example, there’s calculus for business students and calculus for engineers. A literature student might find it hard to learn engineering math but an engineer might find it hard to read classic literature.</p>
<p>We’re assuming that he takes the courses appropriate for his major. </p>
<p>I disagree that a general chemistry course would be harder than economics to obtain the same grade.</p>
<p>augustuscaesar, in korea schools don’t offer AP courses generally :(</p>
<p>oh i’ll mainly take courses in Social science or Humanities.(my intended major is Poli Sci)
i just don’t know how to schedule well in this coming semester cuz you know it’s college! i think it will be, yeah definitely different and harder than HS.
among about the 6 courses of my first semester, how many 100-level courses seem okay?
i mean what was/is yours in your first semester?</p>
<p>^ I wouldn’t recommend taking 6 courses your first semester. Take four-five courses total…at my school we’re not even allowed to take more than 5 without permission to overload. It really doesn’t matter how many are 100-level…you’re a freshman so most of them probably are going to be 100-level because you need the intro courses. Out of my five courses a semester my freshman year, four of them each semester were 100-level, the only more advanced one was Spanish since I’ve been taking that forever.</p>
<p>Def. consider the prof who’s teacher the class.</p>
<p>In my Bio-Psychology class (2000 level) the prof was just brutal. The average, after the curve, was always a D! And about half dropped the course. Not real great for an incoming freshman.</p>