<p>I am taking the following courses this Fall:</p>
<p>PETR 1305, Engineering Analysis (3)
HIST 2300, History of the U.S. to 1877* (3)
PETR 1101, Intro to Petr. Engr (1)
MATH 1452, Calculus II (4)
Elective-Visual & Perf. Arts/Multicultural* (3)
C E 2301, Statics (3)</p>
<p>I am a Freshman and you might wonder how I'm jumping to courses like Calc 2. I got some credit for doing A levels (similar to APs). Now is this a big load? Will it be hard to get all A's and B's? </p>
<p>Also I took a gap year and there is much that I forgot, but my father said if I needed to go back to older concepts, I will just have to hit the old books and revise that specific bit instead of taking the courses all over again. </p>
<p>What do you think? Can I do this or is it too much?</p>
<p>For Calculus, Buy “The Calculus Lifesaver” to brush up some topics and it will help you in the class as well. For history, If you took APUSH, just look at an AP Review Guide. I don’t know about the others.</p>
<p>That’s kind of a strange schedule… What exactly is Engineering Analysis? Is it something like this:</p>
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<p>If so, I would recommend you not take that until completing Calc 3 and DiffEq. </p>
<p>Also, have you taken Mechanics and E&M? Usually people take both of those before jumping into classes like Statics. You will need to have at least taken Mechanics first. If you haven’t I would highly recommend switching Statics for Mechanics. At least where I go, it is very unusual for someone to take Statics before 2nd semester Freshman year, unless they came in with credit for all the Math, Chem, and Physics required. </p>
<p>Assuming you’re an engineering major, I would recommend you drop either History or Art. Usually in Engineering you take 4 “real” classes, only 5 if they’re mostly pretty easy. You have 5 with some hard ones in there.</p>
<p>No actually the university has the Engineering Analysis course designated for Freshman engineering students. Here is the description: </p>
<p>“1305. Engineering Analysis I (3). Corequisites: MATH 1451 and PETR 1101. Introduction to engineering fundamentals, dimensions, units, and conversions. Synthesis and analysis of typical engineering problems. Introduction to the use of computers, computing, and structured programming. Fulfills core Technology and Applied Science requirement.”</p>
<p>And I can’t really drop any of those subjects because I am on a scholarship and the minimum #of hours I can take is 15, so dropping a 3 hour course would drop me to only 14 hours. </p>
<p>Yes, I have taken Mechanics previously in High School, so I would probably have an idea what the professor will be yappin’ at. I have Mechanics (physics 1) credit so I don’t have to take it (my high school courses ‘clipped’ them).</p>
<p>I know in my school’s calc II you jump into things that were never covered in high school. Even if you’re good at math many people still find it difficult. </p>
<p>If I were you I would consider dropping either history, arts, or stats.</p>
<p>Hm… well I am good at math and I took calculus in high school. Not only that, but I can’t drop any of those classes since the minimum number of credits I can take is 15 (scholarship req.). </p>
<p>Now shouldn’t history and arts be easy? Wouldn’t they just require some reading?</p>
<p>Humanities classes in college are not necessarily as easy as humanities classes in high school. In many of them, you have to actually do intelligent analysis of the material, and you will be graded on that analysis; don’t expect any points for just doing the reading.</p>
<p>you took a gap year? i dunno. you know u better than I do. some of those like cal (in my experience whenever you take time away form math it can be hard sometimes to jump back into) might be hard. if you think you can do the work then go for it.</p>
<p>If you get a drop/add period, go to everything you think you might take, and then start winnowing when you’ve seen the professor, workload, expectations, etc. That’s the best way to decide.</p>