<p>But there’s still the fact that there will be rehearsals and concerts for both, so I’m just saying don’t assume that it will be an easy A that won’t require much work 
Especially if you’ve never been in a college band or orchestra and don’t know what it’s like as opposed to high school.</p>
<p>^^^Sounds like overkill to me.</p>
<p>I’m taking 17 credits (6 classes).
Three English/writing ones (my major), one math (worth 4 credits), one history, and one 1-credit one called Resource, Research & Response that everyone has to take. Not a tough course load.</p>
<p>I’m taking 18 credits for my 1st semester…but I think thats the norm at NYU, since 3/4 of my classes are required, and my only elective is a science class that will be required within the next 2 years anyway.</p>
<p>Taking 18 this year as a freshman
Gen Chem + lab = 6
Honors Bio + lab = 4
Some philosophy class (In the liberal arts requirement) = 4
Freshman Honors Seminar = 4</p>
<p>18 credits is quite common for premed kids at my school though haha, but it is a killer that I have 8 am classes 3 days a week</p>
<p>Taking 16… I wanted to take 18 but all the 2 credit freshman seminars were closed when I registered. It’ll probably be for the best anyway. Taking freshman writing, linguistics and culture, bioethics, and intermediate Italian.</p>
<p>I’m an English major and I couldn’t get into any English classes other than the generic writing class, so it’s bothering me a little bit… but we’ll see what happens when classes start.</p>
<p>Taking 16 but I had no say in it anyway…first term my college just puts you in according to your major.</p>
<p>16 (4 classes- 1 hard, 2 moderate, 1 easy, in my opinion). It was fine. It’s good if you mix up harder and easier classes. My school is on the quarter system though, so it’s a bit different.</p>
<p>Ah, now I’m thinking 14 credits maybe too light. I’m a freshman, so if it does turn out to be too easy, I’ll up the credits next semester. I just didn’t want to deal with Bio 1 with lab, Chem 1 with lab, and Calc 1 together, but it’ll only get tougher down the road.</p>
<p>Nice thread . . . </p>
<p>Sorry guys but up to now I don’t know nothing about credits,how they work ?!</p>
<p>I don’t know how much credits I must take for my first,second semester in Civil Engineering!!</p>
<p>Any help please.</p>
<p>For every one hour you’re in class, you’re expected to spend another 2-2.5 hours studying. That’s why most classes are 3 credit hours and why 12 credit hours is considered full time (it’s more than 40 hours worth of work a week).</p>
<p>Most schools invent the amount of credits a course requires themselves; they’re most definitely not consistent across the board, but most classes do fall within about 2-4 credits.</p>
<p>On quarters, but I took 15:</p>
<p>Calc (Series/Sequences/Vectors)
Physics (Mech)
Engineering
Survey Class for my major</p>
<p>So one credit is not similar as one hour !!</p>
<p>If I took 12 credits for my first semester,this means that I can attend any class ?!</p>
<p>By the way the semester is a period of 4 months ?!</p>
<p>^1 credit is approximately equal to 1 hour in class/week (I’ve had some classes where 4 credits was 5 hours of class a week. Or a 1 credit lab as 3 hours a week.) You are “expected” to spend about 30-35 hours outside of class per credit you take, over the course of the semester. My personal experience (fairly common first year engineering curriculum) was that it’s been closer to 20-25 hours. I’m expecting that might have to go up in the next coming semester. </p>
<p>You sign up for classes sometime before they start, those are the classes you attend. Different schools will have different requirements as to what you have to take.</p>
<p>18.
One semester I took 27 credits, with all sorts of dean’s approval. Took 12 hours that summer.</p>
<p>15 should be good, you really shouldn’t go below 15. I did 17 my first semester, hectic but good!!</p>
<p>Ok, let me just get this straight. I have 17 credits this fall.</p>
<p>4 Chem (w/ lab)
4 Calc (w/ problem)
4 Physics (w/ lab)
3 English
1 Engineering
1 computer</p>
<p>Should I then plan to spend 17(2.5)=42.5 hours a week on school work alone, plus the 17 hours of class time, totaling 59.5 hours of time devoted to school work?</p>
<p>I suppose dividing that among 6 days isn’t an atrocious amount…10 hours a day, so I would sleep ~7 hours and that’ll leave 7 hours to eat, socialize, etc. I figure that that’s the absolute most I’ll have to do as a freshman?</p>
<p>^You can plan to spend 60 hrs/week of school work. I doubt that’ll be necessary, or really particularly useful after a certain point. The 2.5 hrs out of class to 1 hour in class might apply to Physics, but probably not, and almost certainly not to the rest of that schedule (except for maybe the Engineering and Computer class, since I have no idea what you mean by those). </p>
<p>I would think ~45-50 hrs/week is probably far more reasonable total on schoolwork.</p>
<p>I took 14. I didn’t feel over- or underwhelmed; it was a good amount to ease myself into college without overloading.</p>
<p>I graduated high school in May and I took three classes over the summer, 11 credit hours, but it turned out that summer semester’s are half as long as normal so it was about 22 hours per week of classes plus the appropriate coursework. Also have a good bit of AP credits. Decided to take 21 credits for the fall with the following classes:</p>
<p>Physics I
Discrete Math
Calc. 2
MATLAB Programming
US History
Frosh Seminar (on statistics)
Health (fluff class)</p>
<p>I’ll let you guys know if I’m still alive in December…</p>
<p>But honestly, you just have to work hard. If you’re hellbent on getting good grades, it seems like you can get them. I’m not terribly interested in having a fabulous social life so for some people that’s important and in that case I’d say don’t take more than average.</p>