<p>So I'm about to start college life at UGA in about 3 weeks and I plan to apply for the UGA Honors Program at the end of the fall semester. The issue is in order to apply I need to take at least 15 credit hours. My problem is that with all my classes I only have 14 credit hours, so I need the magic 1 credit course to be eligible (but those are scarce).
My options are to take Phys Ed (1 Credit Course) (which while it would also satisfy a graduation requirement my sister, and the orientation counselors have all advised me that it's better to take that class after freshman year), a Dance class (also 1 credit but I'm not really a big fan of that option), a Career Planning class (2 credits and a decent option but I'm not sure if 16 credit hours would be too much) or I could take a 3 hour credit class but I think 17 credt hours in 1 semester would definitely be pushing it.
As it stands my schedule is:
Freshman Odyssey (1 Credit Hour)
Freshman Chemistry + Lab (4 Credit Hours)
Intro to Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)
Intro to Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Spanish Conversation and Composition (3 Credit Hours)
Should I just settle for 15 hours or would 16 hours be doable?</p>
<p>i would take the career planning or the dance class as those would be less work for you and allow you to focus on your more important classes.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that adding 1 more credit hour to your schedule would put you over the edge if you could handle 15. If you don’t like dance, just take the career planning class.</p>
<p>15/16 hours is not too difficult, personally I took 7 classes/21 hours my first fall, and looking at your schedule you should be able to easily accommodate 16 hours. Exception being if you are pledging for a fraternity, in which case take the easiest classes possible and look for classes where you can miss class without penalty.</p>
<p>I don’t think career planning is going to be such an intense class that it’ll make or break your schedule, especially if you’re the type of student planning to apply to the honors college.</p>