<p>Okay so here's the situation. I'm a senior in high school I start Dual Enrollment Composition 1 and College Algebra or Western Civ (haven't decided yet) in the spring either way I can take 6 semester hours. I need 24 semester hours to transfer to the University of TN. So spring of 2013 I do 6 semester hours. Is 18 too many to do at a community college? Should I split it up into 8 and 8? Thanks! If you have any other suggestions feel free to share!</p>
<p>18 may or may not be too much. It’s very much dependent on the person & the classes they’re taking. I took 18 my first semester of college, but most people would’ve hated it (I tend to do better with more credits… I just procrastinate when I have less work).</p>
<p>Typically, 12 is full time. I know you said you need 24 credits to transfer, but I don’t see the harm in going beyond that if you know it’ll transfer.</p>
<p>In other words, you could take 15 and 15, and thus transfer with 36 credits. Or 12 and 12, and transfer with 30. Or some other combination, building towards whatever you need for University - ie building up math if your future major requires calculus or other maths.</p>
<p>Can’t you just apply to the University of TN as a freshman? As far as I know Dual enrollment doesn’t require you to be apply as a transfer student.
I did dual enrollment and I applied as a freshman, but I only had 10 credits not 24.</p>
<p>And 8 and 8 makes 16, not 24, I’m confused how that would work.</p>
<p>FWIW, my community college classes were easy and 18 credits would not have been bad at all.</p>
<p>Well, it depends. If your schedule looked like this:</p>
<p>Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism
Physics III: Modern Physics
Linear Algebra
Organic Chemistry I</p>
<p>It might suck (from experience).</p>
<p>A typical full time course load is 15 or 16 credits per semester, although 12 or 13 is the usual minimum to maintain “full time status”. However, taking that many while taking a bunch of high school courses the same semester may be more work than you really want.</p>
<p>Courses with labs or term projects tend to be higher workload than other courses.</p>