<p>Hi, um I am plannin on attending Stanford next year and uh..I am really worried bout the PWR (freshman writing?) and IHUM classes...can you guys tell me how many students are usually in each class and uh kinda estimate on what percentage of them end up gettin an A/B/C (or even d!!)...?? oh and as a freshman, how many hours did you have to spend for homework and studying? And oh!! can you guys gimme your general daily schedule? do you have free time after/before dinner and stuff or do you usually have to sit on a chair and study till 12 p.m. or even later or something??? ahhh so worried bout the life at Stanford...n e how..thx ~!! happy new year~!!</p>
<p>I left an earlier post about PWR and IHUM, but basically these are not really classes you need to worry too much about. I think generally PWR may be more work than IHUM tho i might be wrong since i haven't taken PWR yet. The difficulty of your IHUM depends heavily on which one you're in and who your TF is. There were probably about 120-150 students in the lecture, and about 8 people in my section. Very few people get As and very few people get Cs, I think. It's generally not too hard to get Bs, so to get the A you really need to work hard, or be naturally good at thinking, writing and participating in section.
How many hours you study each day also depends on how many classes you're taking and the relative difficulty of the classes. IHUM involves a lot of reading and writing, tho a few people can get by without doing much of the reading and saving essays till the very last minute.
You will definitely have more free time than in high school, and how you use that free time is all up to you. One of my days last quarter looked sort of like this: Wake up at 8:45 and scramble to get to chem at 9 at the other side of campus. Then head to chem section at 10, followed by math at 11. Lunch at 12, and I had about a half hour break to hang out in our lounge playing foosball, pingpong, piano, whatever... IHUM lecture at 1:15, and then I was free after 2:00 until IHUM section at 6:15 pm-7:45 pm. Then my night would generally consist of doing homework and socializing till about 3 am.</p>
<p>wow thx for the info, jmstnfrd08. can you tell me what courses you have been taking since the first quarter? And uh if you dont mind, how many ap classes you took in your high school years and what you received on your SAT/SAT II's? And going back to what you said in the other IHUM thread, how much reading do you get in IHUM? When you say a lotttt of reading, would that be like 50 pages a day? or ugh...finish a 500-page book in a week? Can you tell me what sort of books you had to read in that class if possible? Thx a lot~!</p>
<p>more like 500 page book in a week. We did invisible man in a week and a half. Robinson Crusoe in a week(UGH). It depends on your IHUM. Books of philosophy in a week (harder than the long ones...) or less. I agree with jm on the "pretty easy to get a B, but an A requires super huge amounts of work". I didn't do that much work (too enamored with socializing) and I got a B.</p>
<p>oh ok wow thx for the insight efilsiertaht..I cant wait to go to Stanford...^^ well but I better start reading some books ugh..</p>
<p>In my IHUM, 50 pages was the most we ever had to read (and usually you have either 2 nights or 5 nights between the lectures to read it), but sometimes we read short stories that were only 10-20 pages long and didn't even have all that much to analyze. Even so, I got a B in the class, which is pretty standard. It really all depends on which IHUM you get, but I agree that most IHUMs had a lot more reading than we did.</p>