<p>Coming from experience…take all liberals your freshman semester at college. Seriously, I was just like you all eager to prove I could handle science classes with a weaker background in the sciences and it blew up in my face. The first semester of college is a transition semester. It is the time where you learn what college is about, you learn how to study, good techniques etc. Also it is a very exciting time to be at school and there are many distractions (you can say you will hit the books all you want but very few actually succeed). If you take more fillers you will have a little more free time to see the campus, spend time with friends and really develop those good study habits. Then start loading on the science classes winter semester. Also they tend to be much smaller than fall classes depending on where you go so you can get more 1 on 1 time with the teachers if you do struggle. Especially being an athlete, I would say take either Gen Chem 1 or Bio 1 first semester, don’t take them at the same time for the first semester.</p>