I’m a sophomore at a large public school
Microbiology (3 credits)
Organic Chemistry 1 (3 credits)
Physics 1 with calc (3 credits)
Spanish Grammar (3 credits)
Writing in Health (3 credits)
Intro to Health Disparities (3 credits)
Research for credit (2 credits)
In addition, I’ll be volunteering about 12 hours a week in various clinics. I will also be doing research, 10-12 hours a week, which counts for the research for credit course. I also hold leadership roles in 2 clubs.
Did you already take calculus?
That’s 20 credits of very difficult classes. It’s probably going to be very rough.
Just to be clear: Is this a college schedule (rather than a high school schedule)? OP doesn’t make this completely clear. If this is a college / university schedule, then I agree with @guineagirl96, this is way too much and is almost asking for bad grades.
Yes. It’s a college schedule
I’m taking:
Organic chemistry 1
Calculus 2
Physics 1
Greek archaeology
Try to balance your schedule. Do you need to take panfish grammar? What about writing health? Microbiology and orgo seem horrible. Are you trying to graduate early? That’s why you taking 20 credits
It is impossible to say without knowing your abilities, your college, your professors etc. but it looks to me like you have too much on your plate.
Also you asked this elsewhere.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-florida/1990153-how-doable-is-this-schedule.html#latest
That is a ridiculous schedule. Choose 2 out of 3 sciences and take the other one later. Do another general ed instead (or don’t, 20 is a credit overload).
That is too much considering your extensive extracurriculars. If it’s not going to put you behind in sequence, my recommendation is to drop one of the science classes. Pick the one with the worst instructor.
My my opinion: This schedule is going to put you significantly behind, because it is too much and something is going to go very wrong, probably including some bad grades or some dropped courses.
What are your plans after college?
Drop either microbiology or physics, and perhaps both - the semester you take orgo should be as light as possible and taking 14 crsits of classes + 2 for research would already be a lot.
That sounds incredibly rough. Just because you can take 20 credits doesn’t mean you have to take 20 credits. Like at my school, the pharmacy majors have to take anatomy and physiology, orgo, and microbiology alongside other required classes. That being said, they are really stressed out from all the work that they have to do.
If you can handle this amount of coursework, nothing’s stopping you. But, I strongly urge you to consider dropping one of the science classes. I honestly believe that you’re going to fall behind in your classes based on the amount of work that will come your way. If you can take a class like microbiology or research later on in your college career, go for it!
Hope this helps and best of luck!
There’s nothing wrong with taking 20 credits if you can handle the heavy workload. But those 3 science classes seem to be kille together, so I wouldn’t recommend this schedule. Drop one of the sciences. I actually agree with the rec to take only orgo and the other 2 next semester.
If this is premed organic chemistry it is pretty much the equivalent of two normal classes just by itself.
Good luck with that…
Thanks everyone. I dropped health disparities. It is a course for my minor, but I’ll take that next semester. Now, I’m at 18 credits (3 for research), or 15 “normal” credits. The main reason I’m taking all these credits is because a medical program I want to apply to during my sophomore year looks at the rigor of courses. Also, there’s this little rivalry between my roommate and I to see who can take the most credits haha.
The credits for research aren’t candy given for free, it’ll take you time. In my opinion, you dropped the wrong course.
“Rigor” doesn’t mean composing an impossible schedule. It means choosing 2 hard classes and knowing how to balance them with other classes. Top schools won’t think oh wow this student took three science classes including orgo together. They’ll think “hubris” and explain your C in orgo with that, end of story for you. I really don’t see how you can do well in all three science classes including orgo.
(To be clear, it seems you believe those hundreds of thousands of excellent students who struggled with orgo won’t be you, so treat orgo as a regular class. It’s not. It’s make or break, and it breaks most.)
As for the competition with roommate… This is possibly the most childish reason I’ve heard for picking such a schedule.
I agree with @MYOS1634
I take 21-27 credits a semester (18 credits academics, and then music stuff on top), which most people think is totally insane, and even I think that schedule is practically impossible. I would only take 2 of those 3 sciences. It’s never a good idea to take more than 2 classes in an area of study at a time. You get overwhelmed and fall behind with that type of workload really easily. Some of my toughest and most sleepless semesters have been those where I had to take more than 2 math and CS courses at a time (2 math+1 CS, 1 CS+2 math, etc). Lab science courses (that are not gen eds for non-majors and non-STEM people) have an even higher workload, especially o-chem.
There are labs associated with the sciences which makes it even more of a time commitment. Seems like an overload and your grades may suffer.