<p><a href=“The University of Maryland | A Preeminent Public Research University”>The University of Maryland | A Preeminent Public Research University; indicates that each of these AP courses is considered equivalent to at most a one semester course at UMD.</p>
<p>CC courses often emulate the courses at the state universities (they have to in order for the universities to accept them for transfer credit, particularly in specific prerequisites to various majors), so they will be more like courses at the universities than at the high schools, although the social scene at a CC may be more like a high school.</p>
<p>However, college students normally take about four or five courses at a time, rather than six or seven courses at a time that one takes in high school.</p>