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I will be attending Wesleyan in the Fall and I was wondering if a recent freshmen can talk about there experience with their first year regarding:

  1. Class Load? How many per quarter? How often did you have tests? How were you able to manage?
  2. Freetime? Did you have any? Were there things to do?
  3. Lastly, grading system? I see on the calendar their is final exams at the end of the semester, so does that mean there aren't any at the end of the quarter, or there are and its the midterm?

Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:

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  1. You can have between four and eight full credit classes per semester (1 credit = ~3 class hours/week). Most people take four credits, some take five, others (me) go crazy and take six full classes and two labs both semesters (NOT A GOOD IDEA). Classes are manageable, especially if you prepared in high school (for me, I went to a public school in a rural area and took all of the AP/honors courses and felt prepared for classes).
  2. I had a job on campus and took waaaaaaaay more classes than I should have, but I still had time for a social life (kinda). As for the people who had a better balance than me (like four classes), they had plenty of time to participate in clubs and social things. Something I should have followed: RULE OF SEVEN—commit yourself to seven things per semester (so, four classes, two clubs, a job).
  3. The grading system is normal, I guess? Like if you have a test and you get 90 points out of 100, you will get a 90% (unless if there is a curve, then you’ll get like a 93 or whatever). And we have ‘midterms,’ but they are really just big tests. There isn’t an official time for them; the teachers schedule their midterms when they want (some classes have 3 midterms and a final, some have one midterm at the actual middle of the term, some just have a final). Finals are the only tests that are given an official reading period.
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THANK YOU, this was very helpful.