How many credits did you take your first semester?

<p>A lot of people are commenting on 12 being too low, I say why take more than you have to?</p>

<p>I came in to college with 46 hours of AP credit, and I could claim 8 more hours but they would just count as electives. Taking 12 hours a semester for 4 years, 12x2x4 = 96 hours. I only need 120 for my degree, and all 46 of those count as regular non-elective credits. So, I end up graduating with 142 hours, way more than I ever needed. If I took 15 hours a semester I would end up with nothing to take my junior year! I already have very little to take my senior year, and will get to take a ton of awesome and fun electives both for my major and also just for fun.</p>

<p>I took six credits (two classes). I started in the summer and classes were only 6 weeks long.</p>

<p>I took 16 credits. It was fine for me!
In spring I took 15 credits.
I’m probably going to follow suit for the next year. And with my AP credit, I can comfortably take 12 units/quarter when I go to a university while still graduating on time :)</p>

<p>If you’re paying a ridiculous amount of money to go to the school you might as well take their classes. So I don’t really get why people use AP credit to take less classes.</p>

<p>14.</p>

<p>I was going to take 17 but my advisor talked me out of it (the class in question was a GenEd religion requirement).</p>

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<p>AP credit is for exempting you from introductory courses, in my opinion. So I can take Intermediate Microeconomics and more interesting Biology courses my freshman year.</p>

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<p>AP is so overrated. my school didnt even have it</p>

<p>I started out with 18 (17 were required in my curriculum), but dropped to 14…not because it was too much work, but because one of my professors literally didn’t teach us anything so I wasn’t going to get the grade I needed in the class. Had I had a better professor, I would have stayed with 18.</p>

<p>I absolutely cannot imagine only 12! That would be like, nothing…at least in my opinion. You should have 14-16 I think, at least based on what most people do at my school.</p>

<p>I took 15.
I would suggest 14-16 to any other incoming freshman. If it seems too easy for you then you can go up some after, but if it’s hard then you can take less credits.</p>

<p>During my first semester as a freshman, I took 16. In my second, I took 15. Pretty standard.</p>

<p>I took 17. That wasn’t too bad; I had a ton of free time.</p>

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<li>I worked like 25-28 hours a week in a job that erased weekends from my life, so that was definitely enough for me.</li>
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<p>I took 16 my first, and 17 my second semester. I’ll probably stick with 16-18, I cannot imagine taking only 12.</p>

<p>Hmm? I was told that in my college, we won’t be selecting courses our first semester. They’ll just give you a bunch of intro courses based on your major you ‘declared’ in your application file, and probably a freshmen seminar and a few core classes.</p>

<p>Is this the exception? Or do other colleges do this? How’d you choose your classes for the first semester?</p>

<p>^Yes that’s the exception. And that sounds really awful. Is that a very small LAC or something?</p>

<p>@nne718, what’s your major? I’m taking 17 too! </p>

<p>I hope everything works out for my first semester!</p>

<p>I’m lined up to take 17 hours for my first semester this fall. I think I’ll be just fine.</p>

<p>This summer I took 6 credits and this fall I’m taking 14 (13 credits with 1 credit for first year seminar). I’m taking less because I’m pledging a fraternity.</p>

<p>So I just changed to 19. I don’t think I’m going to kill myself or anything though, because 4 of them are going to be absolutely easy. (Marching Band counts as a credit, Orchestra counts as two, and we have to take this first year seminar about the actual school and the “experience” that counts as one as well. Whatever.)</p>

<p>So I’m kinda taking 15, but the other 4 I’m just required to show up to.</p>

<p>Yeah, but don’t forget that marching band & orchestra are more than just showing up. Personally I wouldn’t take the two together- won’t there be a lot of practicing and required performances involved? It just seems like, especially the two together, will take up a lot of time, and then you’ll have a full 15 hour load on top of that.</p>

<p>I’ve never been the kind of person who has to practice more than the actual rehearsals… Weird, but true, haha. Usually the amount of rehearsals before the concert gets me plenty prepared for the concert/game etc.</p>