<p>How’s it work if you want to skip if you do have credit, but the scores don’t come in until july?</p>
<p>If you are talking about AP or IB, then they will readjust your schedule at that point. Once you get your scores, you can also call or email the office of first year studies and change your course selections. The only problem is if you put French I for example, but find out you get credit for French I and II and need French III or something like that because you would not have put French III on your course selection sheet, you would just email them.</p>
<p>As for the question about a “pre-law” track, Notre Dame does not offer a specific “pre-law” track, but tracks such as English, History, Political Science, and other such humanities usually set up a student well for law school. Unlike med school, which builds specifically on information learned in undergrad, law school accepts based on perceived aptitude and then teaches new material.</p>
<p>Since I am already afraid of overwhelming myself, I am considering starting French sophomore year instead. Then I could perhaps take a Philo or Theo class or some other university requirement? Hm…</p>
<p>Thanks guys! So if I ended up going through science preprofessional, would I still be able to place a law emphasis through it? </p>
<p>So far I think my schedule looks like
FYC 13100
Math 10550/10560
Chem 10181/10182
Theo 10001
PE 10000</p>
<p>I’m thinking of attaching a language onto there, or just waiting until second semester for the philosophy class.</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Also to leparfait: do you think French is that intense of a class?</p>
<p>Lucidfighter: I wish I could help with the whole law thing, but I know nothing about how law school works. I think for SCPP your schedule looks good though!
I guess it depends which French I would be placed in lol! The ‘intensive’ courses of course seem more so than the others… I think out of all the languages, though, I want to continue with French. I think I am going to take the placement test and just go with it & take French freshman year. 
yay
What language are you thinking of taking?</p>
<p>Haha I’m not sure, but after four years of Spanish I am definitely done with that. Mm I’m thinking either Arabic, French, or Korean though. x] Haha they’re all completely different so I’m not really sure… and in terms of usefulness I’m still not sure. What do you think?</p>
<p>Haha. I considered Chinese - something I have not been exposed to at all, but could perhaps be useful. Then I thought about it - when would I really use Chinese? And would it be worth the 5 days a week intensive course? It would take so much time to master and maybe I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t mind the hard work if I felt it would be useful to me, but in my science career, I just didn’t see how it would. 
I think Arabic and Korean would also be pretty hard to learn? - but I think if you are really interested in them or feel they would aid you sometime, or looking for a challenge, then go for it! =)</p>
<p>Most people take 5 classes + PE (it may be required for First Year Studies, but I could be wrong), so make sure you have an option for that fifth spot. </p>
<p>In other news, take Irish! We have the best Irish Studies department in the world, and the Irish language professors are probably, as a unit, the best professors on campus. It’s an incredibly interesting language, and the courses are a lot of fun. Although I may be biased, in a week I’m leaving to do a 4 week language immersion course in Ireland.</p>
<p>Hmm what’s the news on overloading yourself? Everyone I’m talking to is advising against taking 6 classes, but I dunno, what do you veterans think?? haha</p>
<p>Don’t. Freshman year is hard enough with 5 academic classes. If you overload with 6 classes, you still have to take PE. To put it in a frame of reference, you need to have a seriously good reason - like not being able to graduate unless you do - to get permission to take 7 classes, even as a senior when you have complete and utter control over your own schedule.</p>
<p>Yeah overloading as a Freshman is definitely a bad idea. Unless you have planned out your schedule for the next seven semesters and know you must take an additional class, it is not the most schedule friendly thing to do. Now, overloading as a junior or senior is much more doable because you will have a better idea of your limits and abilities.</p>
<p>^plus if you overload, then there is no time for football…at least overload in spring semester…lol</p>
<p>I think my schedule should be good then, as I have 5 academic classes (but I think they will be hard :/) and a PE class. woo
Do most people buy the season ticket for football? I would be afraid to spend the $ and not have time to go or something lol.</p>
<p>Everyone goes. Everyone goes. Buy tickets. If you don’t buy tickets, you might as well start filling out transfer applications.</p>
<p>Haha yes I’ve already set aside my season pass fund for orientation :]. Hm so is it true that Philo is a one semester class? If so then is there a class I could possibly throw in for the empty semester? Of course this is assuming that I take Philo instead of a foreign language.</p>
<p>we buy the tickets when we get on campus right??</p>
<p>Yeah, I believe it said in a letter that we get the opportunity during orientation. :)</p>
<p>Okay so, apparently, I can’t just pick French for my 4th class… I must list three choices.
I was thinking of listing:
French
Theo 10001
Phil 10100</p>
<p>But I would also have a Phil or Theo seminar most likely one of the semesters… they wouldn’t put me as Phil and Phil would they? That would be weird.
Or do you guys think I should pick some other requirement for this 4th course, like a History or a Soc Science? [I feel like I have so many reqs to fill lol] Or focus on getting rid of theo and phil the first two years & do the rest later?</p>
<p>No, they wouldn’t. These people do this a lot. I personally took two Theology and one Philosophy in my first three semesters, but I still haven’t taken (or registered for) a second Philo, which means I’m taking it second semester senior year. It’s definitely a good idea to fulfill those requirements and get them out of the way, especially if you think you won’t enjoy them, but it’s not the end of the world if you don’t.</p>