<p>I'm currently a freshman and I'm taking an easy 13 units this semester. I was undecided, but now I'm considering Public Health and thus, plan on taking 14.5 units next semester. Should I be taking more, or does that seem like a good amount?</p>
<p>You should take at minimum an average of 15 units each semester to stay on track. Since you are only taking 13 units this semester, you definitely need to take 15/+ units. 16 units is a good amount.</p>
<p>The week of your TeleBEARS appointments is based of your non-AP level, (30* units = soph, 60 units = jr, 90 units = senior). If you take 14.5 units, for your spring TeleBEARS for Fa10 course, you will be treated as a continuing freshman and thus you will have really late TeleBEARS.</p>
<p>*I’ve heard rumors that this value is actual 28 to make up for the fact that the university recommends 13 units the first semester</p>
<p>I would say it depends on how much AP credit you got. If you don’t feel comfortable taking a lot of units yet, do not worry. I am a junior and I never take more than 13-14 letter grade units (maybe one or two additional P/NP units) and I know that I am definitely on track. As long as you meet the minimum unit requirement, you should be fine!!! Telebears will find a way to screw you over regardless.</p>
<p>Remember that you can also take summer courses if you are low on units</p>
<p>whosthat1234 does not know what they are talking about and clearly does not understand how TeleBEARS works. AP units cannot make up for college units because your non-AP level is the main factor that controls your TeleBEARS appointment. If you keep it from going out of whack, you stand a strong chance at not being constantly ****ed over by TeleBEARS. If you keep your Non-AP Level at what it should be (or higher) you will strongly benefit</p>
<p>TeleBEARS will not necessarily find a way to screw you over regardless. TeleBEARS is a positive feedback loop. If you get on its good side (taking 15 units or more each semester) it will continually give you good appointments, if you start out on its bad side, getting good appointments will be much more difficult.</p>
<p>If you follow whosthat1234’s advice, in March when you see your TeleBEARS appointment for Fa10 registration, you will want to kick yourself.</p>
<p>Also your non-AP level does not care about whether you take course for letter grade or p/np.</p>
<p>The question to ask yourself is: realistically, if you do that, will you be able to graduate in four years, preferably with an easy final semester?</p>
<p>The idea is that by the end of your Nth semester, you should have a total of 15N credits. Do you have any AP/IP/transfer units? Are you planning on doing summer sessions?</p>
<p>As for TeleBears and the level, I tend to find that the TeleBears level is actually linked to AP courses quite a lot. I had an unusually high amount of AP units going in, and as a result, with the exception of my first TeleBears ever, my appointments always fell within the first two days. (Oh noes, someone is gonna kill me know…)</p>
<p>All your AP units can do is push your appointment earlier within your non-AP level “week” unless there was an error made somewhere when they added AP/IB units.</p>
<p>Also, community college units go into your non-AP level, so if you come in with a lot of them you will have a higher non-AP level meaning you will have very early appointments. I have a friend who, due to school overcrowding, had to complete most of high school in community college, so he came in with >70 CC units. As a result, after his credits got processed, the latest appointments he ever got were second week. I have heard of plenty of people who had >45 AP/IB units who have never had appointments outside their non-AP level “week”.</p>
<p>FFS, just take 20 units a semester and get out of here.</p>
<p>Lol. Well I followed my own advice and personally I had telebears on Tuesday morning (2nd day of telebears). Pretty good for a junior I would say. The most units I have ever taken in a semester was 16 (I did this only once). All the other semesters it has been 13-14 units.</p>
<p>While AP credit won’t matter for telebears, it will allow you to take 13-14 units a semester and still be on track for graduation.</p>