<p>Schedules are recommendations not required. However, you should assume that if you don’t pass out of a course listed in freshman year via AP (or test score for rhetoric) you will need to take the courses listed for freshman year except for “electives.” Same as to math and physics courses and at least some of the ECE courses second year. The issue is that you need various math, physics and ECE courses freshman and sophomore year because they are courses that are prerquisites to courses that come later in third year and fourth year. In other words, what you want to avoid is suddenly finding yourself in third year unable to take most ECE courses because you don’t have an earlier course that is required before you can take any other courses. Nevertheles, you can do it at a pace that takes 4 1/2 or 5 years once you have the much needed freshman and sophomore courses.</p>
<p>What you should be doing is comparing the listed courses to the course catalog (start here: [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer)) and find out required courses needed for many of those courses listed for second semester sophomore and junior and senior yearand that will start to give you an idea at what you can put off if you intend to take more than 4 years.</p>
<p>Also be aware that many (it is a very high minority if not a majority) in engineering take more than 4 years to graduate. Those who don’t are usually ones who come in with a number of AP credits and do not do coops (where you can work for an employer during a semester and not attend school, and at least two semesters over two years are usually required)</p>