<p>What is the suggested amount, freshman, or any other year can take within a semester? </p>
<p>Also, even though you are allowed to double major, are you allowed to in addition have a minor?</p>
<p>1) The specific recommendation will vary depending on which college you are in, and if you are pre-med. General rule of thumb is try to aim for 14 or 15 credit hours (usually 5 classes, could be 4 classes depending on the classes). I know quite a few people who took 12 credit hours (4 normal classes) because either they had a lot of AP credits and it didn’t really matter, or they just wanted a smoother transition to college. When you are a sophomore and above, go ahead and try for 6 classes every so often if something really interests you or if you want more than 2 majors. I plan to do that next semester. believe the absolute max is 21 credit hours per semester - but no one is that insane. </p>
<p>2) Yep.</p>
<p>Sometimes it makes sense to sign up for 21 credits, then drop one of the classes that you like the least.
15 credits is the norm, generally speaking, but 18 is very doable, and some classes can be taken pass/fail, which makes it less stressful (if you find out that you are doing unexpectedly well, you can change to “grade” option after the midterms)</p>
<p>Wow, really?</p>
<p>I’m premed, and was thinking of double majoring in Chinese and Arabic, while minoring in Religious studies. I know to many people it sounds excessive, but I have hope that it can be done, with study abroad and summer classes.</p>
<p>Do you think that’s ill-advised though?</p>
<p>With summer classes… maybe? Your plan is interesting because you want non-science majors while doing pre-med AND two foreign languages AND an minor and study abroad. This is a lot of different things. I bet your study abroad will need to be during the summer. I mean, if you’re in Beijing for one semester, you won’t be taking Arabic that’s for sure. Languages here are pretty intensive, especially if you don’t have any AP credit from high school (and I don’t imagine you would from Chinese or Arabic). I have a feeling that you’ll need to drop one of the language majors to a minor. </p>
<p>You also need to evaluate the point of getting a full-on major in each one of these. I don’t know if your plan is ill-advised, but you should think of a coherent reason to do so many disparate things. You can always just take a bunch of classes to get a solid exposure if you’re unable to complete your plan exactly how you intended. </p>
<p>You’ll definitely need to chat with your advisor really early on about these plans so they can help you plan out your schedule over 4 years. But if you could do something like this anywhere, I guess it would be Wash U, lol. Crazier things have happened.</p>
<p>You can try it, but my guess is that you will drop either premed, or one of the languages. </p>
<p>At least at WashU you may get a chance to try and see what you want to stick with.</p>
<p>With 2 languages you’d take 4 classes. 2 languages, 1 premed, 1 Writing 1…I don’t really see you pulling off 2 majors in languages, a minor, and premed.</p>
<p>If you’re serious about it, I’d be signing up for this year’s summer school immediately.</p>
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I hope you also know that summer classes will cost extra, they are not covered by regular tuition. And you will need accommodations for the summers (living off campus after freshman year can take care of that)</p>
<p>I know, I did classes at Wash U the summer before freshmen year.</p>
<p>That’s what I figured! So I narrowed it down to a major in Arabic and a minor in Chinese. I’m still premed though! And yeah, I know later down the line, things might change, but as for now, I think this seems pretty manageable. </p>
<p>Over the summer I’d take Physics II, since I’m exempt from the first, due to my AP score (thank gosh!), so then I could study abroad during the spring of my junior year and possibly summer as well.</p>
<p>This summer, I’ll actually be there, but not for taking classes, for this SSBBR program.
Does anybody know if we get to pick our classes first?</p>
<p>Just to give you an example of how this MIGHT work for you - my d is majoring in Chinese and Anthropology. She started 1st semester freshman year with 14 hours, had to drop 3, ending the 1st semester with 11 hours. However, she studied abroad her freshman year and earned 10. Here is her breakdown for hours by semester:</p>
<p>Freshman
1st - 11
2nd - 12
Summer - 10</p>
<p>Sophomore
1st - 19
2nd - 18 (current semester)</p>
<p>Junior
1st - 21</p>
<p>She’ll be graduating at least one semester early. Keep in mind that many of the foreign language courses are 5 credit hours - at least the Chinese language courses are through the third level (where my daughter is), then I think they drop to 3 credit hours.</p>
<p>21 is the max you can take without paying extra and you have to get permission from your advisor to do more than 18 (I think).</p>
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<p>Nope- 21 is indeed the max, but your adviser can approve you to take more than 21 (plus you pay, as stated).</p>
<p>But you can take 21 without your advisers permission.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t take too much freshmen year (15 sounds good). You need to adjust to college life, and make friends and form social groups, and explore. Second semester, you can either shape up or step it up, depending on how well you handled your first semester school work.</p>
<p>Of course it differs from person to person, but IMO, there’s no rush to take too much first semester freshmen year.</p>
<p>Seren, you only get to register for classes early (if you’re in artsci) if you do the Summer Artsci weekend. Varies by school, engineering you do online during the summer since it’s a pretty set schedule and you don’t need too much advice, etc.</p>
<p>Check with your adviser ASAP about testing out of physics I as a pre-med; I’m not pre-med, but it’s my understanding that med schools will want to see that you took physics in college, and will not accept AP credit.</p>