Need help with class selection

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<p>I'm a freshman in college and I'm currently enrolled in Economics 101, Psychology 101, Spanish 217, and History 250. One of my priorities in class selection is distributing a good number of 100s and 200s over the course of college. I might major in History or Economics and my school requires that I take eight courses in my major. However, I sat in a Poly Sci 101 class and found it really interesting. Plus, the instructor is a cool guy and only teaches that class this semester. My career goals are either to work in law or business. My college requires that I only take 4 classes a semester.</p>

<p>My rationale for taking Spanish was having a 200 level class and to gain some proficiency a useful language. I really like History and found the topic (British History) kind of interesting. Economics is really obvious for somebody who wants to work in business and it also has an amazing instructor who doesn't teach the next semester. Psychology has some interesting experiments but so far it's kind of boring because my instructor is terrible at communication. I don't ever intend on majoring in Psychology or Spanish.</p>

<p>The scenario I've been thinking about is taking Psychology my first semester, second year. Distribution-wise, this might force me to take Psychology and Calc I in the same semester, which might be bad because I'm not mathematically inclined and Psychology requires a weekly lab session - which might keep me really busy. I could take Calc I over the summer though. Although, Poly Sci 101 is a course light on the work load.</p>

<p>Which class should I drop, if I should drop any at all?</p>

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<p>It is pretty much impossible for anyone on this board to know what you should do with out knowing you, your teachers, your school, etc. What you should do is sign up for all the classes you want, then after going to the first lecture or two decide which you want to keep and drop the rest. At my school you could get 100% of your tuition reimbursed for credits you dropped if it was done before a certain date. Most semesters I would sign up for more classes than I planned on taking, then I dropped/added courses I wanted to from there. Sometimes I wanted to take 7-8 courses but only only wanted sign up for 5. So I would sign up for as many as I could, but attend the lectures of all of the classes. That way I could see how good the teacher was and read the syllabus, from there I could get a pretty good idea for the difficulty of the class and make a decent schedule.</p>

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<p>One word of advice; don’t take other people’s advice when it comes to situations like these. You know what’s best; if you don’t… allow yourself the time to figure it out.</p>

<p>With that said…
Your college only requires 8 classes to be taken for your major…
And they only want you to take 4 classes per semester?!</p>

<p>Where is this place. Sign me up - sounds fantastic! :smiley: lol</p>

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<p>All right. </p>

<p>I go to Grinnell College. Very big on open curriculum (pending distribution balance among the departments, but not specific classes) but tough.</p>

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A lot of private universities have a normal course load of 4 courses per semester. Work is assigned accordingly.</p>