<p>Ok, well... with respect to MATH 191, what are the curves like, if at all there is a curve? I can see the past exams online, so knowing the curves would give me a much better idea of difficulty.</p>
<p>When is the last day we can drop a class? Do we get penalty if we do it after a certain date?</p>
<p>Scroll down to "Course Add/Drop". If you want to drop a class after October 12th you have to petition. It might show up on your transcript if you drop after the "drop date" though... you should check with your advisor.
<a href="http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/fall2007reg.html%5B/url%5D">http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/fall2007reg.html</a></p>
<p>you get 7 weeks to drop a course w/o petition, and then 12 weeks to do so with a petition so a 'W' doesnt show up on your transcript.</p>
<p>it's really easy to petition, at least in engineering. As long as you do it in a timely manner.... I was in the advising office the day of the drop deadline w/ petition, and it was kind of hectic, like people coming in and then not having their advisor's signature then having to go hunt them down, etc. </p>
<p>I took 21 credits first semester, 5 classes plus my 150 class, PE and wind ensemble. It's doable, just be prepared to gain some excellent time management skills, especially if you do more than just school.</p>
<p>123orange: you have 7 weeks to drop a class without any sort of "penalty". If you drop after 7 weeks you get a "W" (withdraw) on your transcript. Then, later at the end of term, there's some kind of deadline after which you can't drop any class, period, without significant complications. (How the "W" actually works, and what implications for you it has, I'm not sure; I took a math class last semester and considered dropping it at the end, and so I researched all this stuff at the time, and I remember reading something about how a "W" shows up on your transcript, but not your permanent record, or vice versa, or something. Go to the online Courses of Study and pretty much everything Cornell academia-related is explained there, including info about adding/dropping classes.)</p>
<p>BTW, I took 19 credits my first semester. Then again, 3/5 of my classes were humanities. The smartest, simplest move is always to start out with 5, see how it goes, and drop if necessary.</p>
<p>also be aware that while a language class is 4 credits, the first year language courses meet everyday and are more work than most of your other classes...</p>
<p>romance language classes (first year) are NOT a lot of work at all. There are 1-2 page graded assignments once a week which take like 15 min, and a quiz every couple of weeks which require about half an hour of studying at most. I rarely did the nightly assignments and still ended up with an A-. They do meet 5x/week though. </p>
<p>arabic/mandarin are extremely tough and time consuming though.</p>
<p>depends on the course. i have some friends who took beginning spanish and though the work may not have been a lot in actual volume, it took up a ton of time because the class went at such a fast pace, so small assignments took a lot of time to finish.</p>
<p>I personally believe that it is better to start off with too many credits then start dropping courses if needed, as opposed to starting off with too few and start adding as needed.</p>
<p>I'd go ahead with that schedule, but don't be surprised if you end up dropping a course.</p>
<p>Spanish and French are definitely hard Romance languages</p>
<p>I'm not very worried about the language credits. If nothing works out, I'd just take a 200 level japanese or chinese course, which I'm already fluent in. (although if it's possible, I'd like to continue french...)</p>
<p>I think I'll probably go with my schedule and drop classes as needed.</p>
<p>Is it very hard to sign up for PSYCH 101? Also, how hard is it to sign up for out-of-college courses?</p>
<p>I got a 3 on the AP AB Calc (yes laugh if you must, I'm not a math person) but I was shamefully lazy with homework in that class. This semester I'm taking bio and chem (I'm a freshman premed) and i actually got into psych 101 + a language and hopefully a relatively easy fws. Other than the science I guess I seem like a lightweight, but everyone's told me that's ok freshman year. I might take calc next semester or next year, but I'm thinking about taking Statistics. And I have NO idea what to major in, I like Econ, but I'm only OK at math. How hard is Stat compared to Calc?</p>