<p>I'm going to be a freshman in university (undergrad) soon</p>
<p>some stuff about me..
I'm a good student, in high school gpa was 3.8 and ACT 29, and I took some AP's..however I feel like high school was not as hard as it should have been
I am not into the party scene or despeate for friends so social life is not an issue
I'm not going to be working the first semester of college</p>
<p>my schedule is 20 (!) credits, which is the maximum at my university. 15-18 credits are said to be reccomended to be on track to graduate 4 years, but i need these classes not going to drop any.. i just want to know if it sounds reasonable? i want to get a 4.0 gpa !</p>
<p>classes:
Foreign language 1 (6)
Calculus 2 (4)
Programming 1 (4)
Evolution, freshman seminar (2)
Freshman Writing (4)</p>
<p>Especially during your freshman year, you should probably be careful with how many credits you take. In addition to school you’ll have to adjust to college life, so you don’t want to do too much. Is the Evolution, freshman seminar required? Also, if the foreign language class is one you’ve taken before and are familiar with, then you should be okay. Two hours might not make too much of a big difference, but I’d still be careful. </p>
<p>Out of curiosity, which school are you at?</p>
<p>I had the exact same profile coming out of HS and felt similarly - my HS was not challenging and I breezed by whilst still doing well on standardized testing.
Though you say you’re not into the social scene, not desperate for friends etc…and I definitely wasn’t…you never know who you’ll meet in college or who you’ll end up spending time with. My track, I’ve discovered, requires a lot of peer support so one of my best friends here is on the pre-med track and a hard science major like me. Don’t discount the power of having friends and the ability to talk things out. That being said, if I were you I’d seriously consider cutting down the courseload (credit-wise …remember…easy classes with a lot of credits equates to a ton of busy work/time consuming stuff!).</p>
<p>It would probably help more to ask advisers at your school - professors, upperclassmen, admissions officers. However as a freshman, you might want to spend a semester getting a feel for the school and how much more rigorous than your high school it is. If you’re confident though, and it sounds like you are, you could try starting out with this schedule, and since most schools have a date by which you have to drop classes, you can always do that. I hear at MIT, since there’s no specific “shopping period,” overachieving students will sign up for like 9 courses, take a week or two to figure out what it’s like, and then drop the courses they don’t want. But make sure you know the drop date!</p>
<p>And I agree with Vertigo - college is one of the best places to make lifelong friends. Don’t neglect them!</p>