<p>Recently I just started looking into which courses I should be taking at Stern for the fall. For some reason, a lot of the hyperlinks on the Stern site lead me to the main Stern homepage instead of the actual page it's supposed to direct me to, so I am unable as of now to read those help pages without googling parts of it and trying to cache the page.</p>
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<li>I'll probably be majoring in finance.</li>
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<p>Cohort Leadership Program - 0
Writing the Essay - 4
FALL 2010 V55.0545 Cultures and Contexts: Egypt of the Pharaohs - 4
(This will get the world culture req out of the way, correct?)</p>
<p>I received a 5 on the AP Chemistry test, so I think I can exempt my way out of the science requirement. Am I right in thinking I won't have to take a science course at all in college then?</p>
<p>Math - I took AP Calculus this year, and I'm pretty confident I did well enough on the AP test to exempt my way out of calculus 1 and 2. My question here is - should I take calc 2 anyways because my goal is partially to maintain as high a GPA as possible? I thought it would be easier to get an A in a course I've already taken, but a few friends have said the 'easier' a course is, the harder it is to get an A - is this true at Stern? Should I repeat calc 2 or go straight for calc 3? I did well in the course and the AP test.</p>
<p>Statistics - Again, same question applies(I took the AP Stat course and test this year). Should I take the 4 credit Statistics Regression Control or just the 2 credit Business Forecasting/Regression course? I feel that I mastered the AP level statistics without any real difficulty, so that might be taken into consideration.</p>
<p>So not including statistics, that's currently 12 credits. I'm leaning towards just 16 credits for the fall semester so I can settle in nicely with a slightly lighter workload. Is this line of thinking correct, or are my other courses easy enough that I should go for 18 credits?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any help!</p>