How much credits should I take?

<p>I'll be starting college during the last week of August, and I have to start registering in about two weeks. I'm a full time student, but I have no clue on how many credits, should I do 12 or more? I want to take the first semester a little easier to adjust.</p>

<p>At each college, there is a particular amount of credit hours that are required to be considered a full-time student, but I don’t know if this varies from college to college. My advisor recommended that new students stay between 14-17 credit hours, generally anything over seventeen is quite a workload.</p>

<p>You should probably look up how many credits is necessary to be considered full time (it should be on your college website), or email your advisor.</p>

<p>I did 14 my first semester and I liked it. Now I do 15-16. Works just fine. I think first semester freshman should take somewhere like 14 just so they have time to acclimate and get involved and make friends. </p>

<p>12 is not very many at all.</p>

<p>Its 12 credits at my school to be considered a full-time student.</p>

<p>But will 12 credits per term get you to graduation in eight semesters or twelve quarters?</p>

<p>At some schools, you need to average 15 per term to graduate on schedule, but they may designate you as a full time student if you have 12 or 13.</p>

<p>12 is the minimum. You will not have very much work if you’re doing 12 and you probably won’t graduate on time if you always do 12.</p>

<p>Well, my school runs on the semester system. So the minimum is 12 credit hours to be considered a full time student. Since I may do economics as a major, I don’t think 12 will allow me to graduate in 4yrs. But for my first semester I want to take the least amount that will allow me to do some adjustment and enough were I don’t have too much time on my hands. So is 14 the magic number?</p>

<p>If you take 15 credits every semester you graduate in four years. 12 is considered to be a full load on the semester.</p>

<p>I’d suggest you take 12 and then in the spring you bump it up to 15. You’ll be about 3 credits behind which you can catch up on by taking like 1 summer course.</p>

<p>If you want to take the average load, it’s like 15-16 as others have said. It also depends on your major- check how many you need to graduate in 4 years. (some majors require more credits per semester to graduate on time…example=music!)</p>