<p>So, forgive the very big igorance of this next question, but how many classes is it normal to take per quarter??</p>
<p>this is highly dependent on WHICH classes you decide to take. It would be considered a heavy (but doable) load to take Bio, Chem, and Physics in the same quarter.</p>
<p>The norm for freshman (especially for their FIRST quarter) is to take 3 courses (12 units) and the norm after that is to take 4-5 courses (15-18 units). I think the maximum is 19 units allowed per quarter at my school</p>
<p>Find out the minimum # of units you can take and then take 1 or 2 classes more than that.</p>
<p>5 classes in a quarter can be really pushing it, depending on which ones they are.</p>
<p>i took 6 and did fine. it was 22 units (max allowed). i took engineering math, chem, bio, physics, lab and english comp. of course, i also studied night and day and those 10 weeks were hellish. i did manage to have an inkling of a social life...</p>
<p>first quarter, as a freshman, i took 16 but dropped a class so it was 12. next quarter i'm taking 19-21, depending on how much i want to kill myself this quarter.</p>
<p>At my quarter-system school, everyone takes 3 classes per quarter. You are only allowed to take 4 classes twice, and you are also allowed to take 2 classes twice.</p>
<p>Also, we don't really do the whole credits thing. All classes count as one class/one credit. So the three classes could be anything.</p>
<p>Depends on your school. Look up the suggested class schedules for your major at whichever schools you're looking at to see how many you'd be taking per term. At my school you pretty much need to do a steady 5 per term to graduate on time. You can't take less than 4, and I took 6 a couple of terms...annoying but certainly doable.</p>
<p>i am also on the quarter system, and the normal courseload is 4 classes or 16 credits...sometimes a class will have a lab and push ur credit total up to about 17 or 18.</p>
<p>Are people here talking about quarter or trimesters. Dont count the summer as anything. My school is 3 norm/quarter, but I think a lot, maybe 15-25% of the kids end up taking four atleast some quarters. I believe that 5/quarter is doable, but you would have to take select courses. I get 2x as much work now as I did last term, with a lower level courseload.</p>
<p>most schools in the US are on a trimester system. That means there is a fall semester, a spring semester, and a summer semester. There are also schools on the quarter system: fall, winter, spring, and summer. I think at orientation, my councellor said that it was fine to take an easy course load the first couple of quarters, and by easy I mean 3-4 classes totaling to 12-15 units a quarter. But somewhere down the line, you will have to take 17-19 unit quarters (or even more). That translates to 4-5 classes. These numbers may vary slightly depending on which school you attend.</p>
<p>You may want to cross post this/search the UChicago and NorthwesternU boards as those are the first schools I think of that use the quarter system.</p>
<p>4 is normal. 3-5 is normal.</p>
<p>Personally I have decided to transfer to a school that is on the quarter system. I find myself bored the third week into the course.</p>