<p>Calculus I
General Physics I w/ lab
Intro to Biological Inquiry W/Lab
Literary Analysis or Intro to Shakespeare
Introduction to Economics</p>
<p>Those classes would put you at 20 credits. You can’t do more than 18 without paying an additional $2000 per credit. Also 5 classes is a lot. Any 4 of those 5 classes would be more than manageable.</p>
<p>I"m assuming you’re an incoming first-year? You will not register for classes until after you’ve met with your adviser during freshman orientation. My son’s first semester looked alot different than what he planned out for himself at home. You do come up with courses you think you’d like to take, and then work it through with your adviser. </p>
<p>But, no, five full credit courses is too much.</p>
<p>thanks for the info!</p>
<p>And one of your courses will be your tutorial, that you will get info about later. Lots of interesting options and the prof for that will be your advisor for 2 years</p>
<p>There is one tutorial class which will count as literary analysis and allow you to go on to 200 levels right away. All other tutorials do not fulfill any prereq requirements. I am not sure which tutorial it is but as registration for tutorial is before you get to Grinnell you might want to look into this.</p>
<p>@480586
That tutorial may not be offered this year. I’m not sure if/how often they recycle the same tutorial topics, but I know they have different ones every year.</p>
<p>@xcrunner14345
Hahaha.</p>
<p>No, seriously. You will fail out if you try to do that as a freshman. Pick three of those. That’ll give you 12 credits, then you’ll add 4 credits for your tutorial which will put you at 16. If you want more than 16 you can only really add 1 or 2 credit courses (music, PE, short courses, etc) so that you don’t go over 18. Taking over 18 credits is ridiculously hard even for upperclassmen.</p>
<p>For the last 3 years they have always had a tutorial which counts as Lit Analysis.</p>
<p>Also as cross-country is a fall sport taking a slightly lighter schedule may not be a bad idea. I always tried to take a slightly lighter schedule during my sports season at Grinnell as it is typically at least a 15 hour commitment a week.</p>
<p>First semester freshman year is also prime time for meeting people, exploring clubs, checking out what’s available: It’s the semester when you want to cut yourself the most slack academically. You’ll have plenty of adjustments to make without having to push yourself to your academic limits.</p>
<p>M’s Mom-- great point. Give yourself a little time to enjoy your campus and the other students in the first semester/year/4 years!</p>