I was thinking about taking 7 credits during summer session to get some required courses out of the way. Is it too much to handle? I am in my second year of college. The courses I want to take are programming methods 1 (3 credits and required for my major: math and in person) which should be easy because I know java somewhat already, and human evolutionary biology ( 4 credits + lab all online for core)
Also this is a 4 week summer session
You will be vey busy, like a regular semester or worse, but at least it’s over in a month 
See how much reading there is for each class. You will be basically covering a week of a regular semester every 1.5 days, so what you’d normally have 7 days to read you’ll have 2 nights. I took a literature class one summer - big mistake! For the science class and lab, how many write ups?
Things move really fast in summer sessions.
My D took 12 credits one summer at our local CC. Six credits (ASL 1 and second semester freshman English) in the first session, ASL 2 in the second and then an online history class that began before the first session ended and ended before the second session. The main draw for doing this is that she only needed C’s to get credit transferred to her school. Of course, she wound up getting A’s in the history and English and B+'s in ASL.
I will say that the summer classes appear to be very intense. My D did not work while she was taking this program and I have told S17 that he won’t have to work either if he does this. My D did say that she liked the fast pace of the ASL class because she didn’t have time to forget the material the way she might have over a semester (FL is not her strong suit, either).
Thanks for the input and yea I won’t be working but the idea of taking two courses over the summer scares me ( especially since they both have labs one in person and online). I’m gonna see if I can find people that took the lab science online to see how time consuming it is before deciding because I know I can def handle the cs course ( since I took programming in high school), but if the lab science is too much work to do with it I might take two separate summer sessions.
Perhaps you can take one course in one session, finish it and then take the other. It will cost a little bit more but you might be more relaxed doing it. Also, check on what grade your home school requires to accept the transfer and if it’s a C, you have more leeway. If you are taking it at your own school, then the GPA matters.
@techmom99 thank you for your reply that is prob what I am going to do. Also, yea this will be at my home college so I need to do well which is why I am worried.