<p>I just came back from Preview and this is my schedule:</p>
<p>CHM 2047 Honors General Chem 4
CHM 2047L Honors General Chem Lab 1
MAC 2313 Analytic Geom & Calc 3 4
CLP 3144 Abnormal Psychology 3
ENC 1102 Argumentation & Persuasion 3
IDH 3931 Science For Life I 1</p>
<p>TOTAL 16</p>
<p>Has anyone had any experience in any of these courses? Any advice? Thanks.</p>
<p>Ouch…Argument and Persuasion is usually a breeze. However, your courseload looks extremely heavy and the class is one that requires a good amount of time and effort put into it. You’ll have to buy the penguin handbook and the writing and reading across the curriculum for it. Both are actually used throughout the course of the semester. </p>
<p>If you have any time on your hands in the fall, I’d be very surprised.</p>
<p>Even if you are good at math and breeze through Calc 3, Chem and its lab will take up an insane amount of your time. What do you want to do in college anyway? If you want to go to med-school, that schedule would be a horrible idea.</p>
<p>Would like to enlighten me as to why it would it be a horrible idea?</p>
<p>do all colleges have the same schedule for freshmen? i guess not.
im taking college trig which is like precalculus. (its so easy)</p>
<p>Well I’m taking Calc 3 cause I got a 5 on Calc BC which gives me credit for both Calc 1 and Calc 2 so Calc 3 is the next class to take in sequence.</p>
<p>^I’m guessing you do want to go to med school? Most med schools don’t require that much math for example, WUStL allows one semester of calc and one semester of stat or one year of calc. Johns Hopkins has a similar policy. Your goal in undergrad is have a high GPA, MCAT and have research/extra curriculars. Taking Calc 2 might be rehashing familiar material but you lower or eliminate the risk of getting a bad grade that could trash your GPA. Not to mention it’ll give you more time to focus on other challenging classes such as the combined chem you want to take.</p>
<p>I don’t feel the need to retake classes that I have already worked hard in successfully completing. If you want to go to med school and have AP credits, they advise you to take the higher level courses, which I will be doing.</p>
<p>I see nothing wrong with the schedule, assuming you’re a motivated learner. My d’s roommate’s taking: calc 2, enriched physics honors 2060, and chem 2045 w/ lab. My d’s taking calc 3 and the enriched physics honors, but she’s skipping the chem since she tested out of it. She’s going to glance over the material fall semester and refresh her memory then take the chem II in the spring. She’s doing a couple of gen eds and the intro to engineering, so she has 5 classes, too. She just doesn’t have the lab because the enriched physics lab is taken in the spring (as it’s physics 1 and 2 lab combined) so she’ll have that and the chem 2 lab. She’ll also have diffyq, too. Science/engineering/ nursing majors a lot of times have two lab classes or math and lab, especially if they come in w/ a lot of AP credit. Obviously, you’ll be working a lot, but if you’re like my d, she doesn’t consider math/science classes work … those are her easy grades.</p>
<p>zebes</p>