college classes in HS

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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So, I’m a HS sophomore with two AP classes and some hard extracurriculars. I have the opportunity to take a 6-week beginning language class at a local (large, good) university. It’s during their summer session, but for me will be during school (May-July). It’s from just after school until dinner time four days a week, so basically adding on an extra class while eliminating three hours of study time. How hard is a typical college summer class? In particular, how much homework can I expect (that’s what I’m most worried about)? Will I be able to keep up and still have any time to relax? Is it even remotely worth it?

Thanks so much.

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College language classes are pretty demanding, and are even more so considering that, in this case, a 15 week semester is being compressed into 6 weeks. While it will be a bit dependent upon which language, you should expect to need to spend 2 hours for every class hour on HW/prep.

It would be one thing if it were truly during the summer, but I can’t see how you can do this without impacting your HS grades, and you certainly won’t be able to relax.

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DONT DO IT.