<p>I noticed the schedule on Summer</a> Session - UC San Diego -- it goes by so fast!!: A 4 unit class completed in only ONE month?!? Does this make the class substantially more difficult than a standard quarter course, and thus hard to earn an A?</p>
<p>2) is there a limit on how many units you can take in Summer?
2b) Which students gets priority registration? (I was just scanning this summer's sched and noticed several courses are already maxed out in enrolled seats.)</p>
<p>3) Can anyone generally describe their experiences with the summer session -- what they liked and didn't like. </p>
<p>4) How "busy" does the campus feel during the summer?</p>
<p>5) Would you say taking summer courses is a great way to speed up graduation time, or is the extra cost probably not worth it, based on your experience?</p>
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<li><p>I’ve done summer session once, and it was back in the day when I wasn’t suffering from senioritis. I took ALL my requirements (14 units) that summer. I can tell you that all I did during those 2 sessions was just physics. I would say it’s easier than doing it during the school year because I was only focused on physics. It goes a lot faster and I was actually working to keep up…so there’s no room for slack in summer session physics. I got at least an A- in all those classes, but I did put in a lot of the work. </p></li>
<li><p>I’m not sure if there’s a limit. I think the limit is your wallet.
2b. There’s no priority registration. It’s strictly by units. If you’re not a UC student, then your registration date would be later. </p></li>
<li><p>Umm all I was doing was physics…can you imagine? Unless you like physics of course…</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t know. I don’t stay on campus long enough to find out. </p></li>
<li><p>I did it because I didn’t want to face physics during the school year. It was worth every penny. I got financial aid to cover a good amount of it though :)</p></li>
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<p>Does this make the class substantially more difficult than a standard quarter course, and thus hard to earn an A?</p>
<p>---- For me, it felt a lot more difficult, I would be reading two books a week in some of my classes. But it varies on the class and department.</p>
<p>2) is there a limit on how many units you can take in Summer?
----I think you can only take 3 classes - total of 12 units per session (but honestly I think I would die if I tried to take that many)</p>
<p>2b) Which students gets priority registration? (I was just scanning this summer’s sched and noticed several courses are already maxed out in enrolled seats.)
----As said above, people get enrollment dates based on their # of units acquired.</p>
<p>3) Can anyone generally describe their experiences with the summer session – what they liked and didn’t like.
------Like - classes smaller, you can get to know the professor, nothing is crowded, class feels more laid back even though it is extremely fast paced
------Didn’t like - Did two summers of classes and I hated how stressed they made me. 5 weeks is not a long time to learn material. </p>
<p>4) How “busy” does the campus feel during the summer?
------Basically feels dead. Not necessarily a bad thing to have un-crowded libraries and no lines at food places :)</p>
<p>5) Would you say taking summer courses is a great way to speed up graduation time, or is the extra cost probably not worth it, based on your experience?
----I’m graduating in 3 years and it’s actually cheaper to do summer school for out of state students. So, it was worth it for me!</p>
<p>Is it per session, as in the entire summer, or 3 per *each Summer session<a href=“i.e.%20totally%203%20sessions%20available:%20Special%20Summer%20session;%20session%201;%20session%202”>/i</a>, meaning potentially 36 units allowed (12 units x 3 sessions)?</p>
<p>3 classes per each summer session (I am almost positive)</p>
<p>The special summer session lasts all summer just FYI. Meaning, I’m pretty sure you can’t take 3 “special summer” classes along with 3 classes in 1 and 2 because that would mean you would be taking 6 classes at every point during the summer.</p>