Just a couple of questions about college courses! :)

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm a junior in high school and I'm thinking of majoring in either Pre-Med or Biochemistry. I'm in all honors and AP except for math. I have taken regular Algebra 1 and Geometry, and I'm taking Algebra 2 right now and will take AP Calculus AB next year. I have gotten B's in all my math classes, except I got a C in Geometry one semester (the only C I've ever gotten in my life, and will ever get). I'm in honors science classes. I've already taken Honors Biology and Honors Chemistry (both B's) and now I'm taking Honors Anatomy and Physiology with a high A. Next year I'm taking AP Biology and maybe Honors Physics. All my other grades are A's. I'm in the NHS, Spanish National Honor Society, and last year I was the President of the Astronomy club. My GPA should be around 3.6 uw/4.1 weighted by the time I graduate. </p>

<p>I plan on just going to my local college for one year and then transferring to a better college from there. Maybe UConn.
I might sound a little stupid, but how many science classes can I take in my first year of college? </p>

<p>I have a friend that just went to take a bunch of random courses at his local college, such as English Composition, Psychology, and Western Civilizations. Could I just go in my first year and only take courses such as Organic Chem., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Principles of Disease so that I can transfer to say, UConn for my Soph. year? </p>

<p>Will my high school grades and courses really matter by that point? </p>

<p>Thanks!
Brooke</p>

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<p>You can take as many as you want but generally people don’t do that. Most universities have general education requirements in addition to the classes required for the major. Also, science classes consume a lot of your time, especially if they have a corresponding lab course, so you don’t want to have too many at a time. Also, since you plan on transferring, the university you transfer to will probably require that you take a significant portion of classes that count toward your major there instead of at the university you transferred to. Usually in your situation what people do is take a bunch of general ed requirements and a few science courses. </p>

<p>BTW, pre-med isn’t a major.</p>