<p>So...here is how its looking for college (following the current course catalog and whatnot...). I graduate high school May 24th. I start during the Summer of 2008 on June 11th. How does this look as a very rough draft?</p>
<p>Summer of 2008:
ENGL 1101 English Composition (3)
PSYCH 2500 Fundamentals of Psychology (3)
PERS 2100 Women's Voices (2)
Total Credit Hours: 8</p>
<p>Fall of 2008:
ENGL 1102 English Composition 2 (3)
MATH 1113 Precalculus (3)
BIOL 2010 Unifying Principles of Biology (4)
CHEM 1211 Principles of Chemistry (4)
Total Credit Hours: 14</p>
<p>Spring of 2009:
MATH 2261 Analytical Geometry and Calculus (3)
ENGL 2130 Development of Modern Thought (3)
CHEM 1212 Principles of Chemistry 2 (4)
BIOL 2270 General Zoology (4)
Total Credit Hours: 14</p>
<p>Summer of 2009:
HIST 2112 U.S History Since 1865 (3)
SOCI 1101 Introduction to Sociology (3)
PERS 2112 Nutrition (2)
Total Credit Hours: 8</p>
<p>Fall of 2009:
POLS 1101 American Government (3)
PHYS 1111K Principles of Physics (4)
CHEM 3401 Organic Chemistry (4)
COMM 1100 Human Communications (3)
Total Credit Hours: 14</p>
<p>Spring of 2010:
PHYS 1112K Principles of Physics 2 (4)
CHEM 3402 Organic Chemistry 2 (4)
BIOL 2230 General Botany (4)
Total Credit Hours: 12</p>
<p>Summer of 2010:
BIOL 3100 Microbiology (4)
BIOL 3200 Genetics (4)
Total Credit Hours: 8</p>
<p>Fall 2010:
SPAN 1101 Introduction to Spanish (3)
CHEM 3601 Biochemistry (4)
BIOL 3300 Ecology (4)
BIOL 3450 Animal Physiology (4)
Total Credit Hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring 2011:
SPAN 1102 Introduction to Spanish 2 (3)
BIOL 4350 Vertebrate Embryology (4)
BIOL 3800 Invertebrate Zoology (4)
BIOL 4830 Labratory Practicum (1)
Total Credit Hours: 12</p>
<p>Fall 2011:
SPAN 1111 Intermediate Spanish (3)
BIOL 4840 Labratory Practicum 2 (2)
BIOL 4900 Senior Seminar (1)
BIOL 4950 Directed Study (3)
BIOL 3920 Herpetology (4)
BIOL 4850 Biology Internship (3)
Total Credit Hours: 16</p>
<p>I wouldn't take that many classes during the summer.</p>
<p>I wouldn't plan the 4 year schedule in advane all at once. I would do it year by year.</p>
<p>Will you be working?</p>
<p>I hope to work 4-8 hours a week. probably like 4 hours on saturday and 4 on sunday or something minimal like that.</p>
<p>Oh God, a four year plan and you haven't even graduated High School?</p>
<p>Orgo at the same time as intro Physics? Been there, done that, and it's not pretty. You're thinking too far ahead, how do you even know that you'll be going to the college that the certain course catalog is from?</p>
<p>jesus christ kid relax, take it one year at a time AT THE MOST. chill out and have a little fun in college, it ain't all about the work.</p>
<p>Hello....I was accepted in June.....I start this upcoming June. I'm not dumb. I like planning ahead, thats all.</p>
<p>Don't plan too far ahead. You're going to get screwed out of classes in your first year or two because the school will more than likely give preference to upper classmen. Just do it a semester at a time and take the 'recommended schedule' as just a list of classes you need to graduate.</p>
<p>It's good to have something like this in mind, but you should expect to stray (drastically) from it. Don't force yourself to conform to this. You'll figure out what you can handle, courses will conflict in your schedule, you'll switch your major, a professor will go on sabbatical and his course won't be offered for a semester, you'll hear that a particular elective has an awful professor, classes will fill up, classes won't fill up and will be canceled, you'll switch your major again, interesting new classes will be added to your school's offerings, you'll decide to pick up a minor, you'll want to go abroad, you'll get a summer internship out of town...expect to be thrown for loops. Lots and lots of loops. That's all.</p>
<p>As a plan-lover who was very consistently foiled by scheduling, I speak from experience (I kept editing this post as I remembered all the different ways that my schedule got 'messed up'). And it all works out :)</p>
<p>Seems like an easy schedule to me; also, why taking so many classes during summers?</p>
<p>Anyway, while I agree with the others that your plan will most definitely change due to unexpected obstacles (classes filling up, not being offered, etc) or new insight (you realize you don't want to take a certain class after all), I don't think there's anything wrong with a detailed plan like this.</p>
<p>It's good to give you direction; it is certainly a bit neurotic and obsessive. But I also made a similar plan, heh; I'm also neurotic and obsessive about these things. I've found that my plan changed a little every semester, but it's good to have some direction to go in.</p>
<p>Anyway, it looks like a good plan to me, is what I'm saying.</p>
<p>I agree with those who are telling you to chill and put the 4-year plan aside for now. I had to do one last fall for orientation, and it's all out the window now because I changed concentrations within my major. As Gold said, any little unexpected change could throw off your plan, causing you to delay a class until a later semester or something. You never know. I also strongly discourage you from taking classses every summer. There are other things you could be doing that can still build your resume, like an internship, or just a job that will earn you cash for the next school year. If you take classes non-stop every fall, spring and summer for the next 4 years, you'll make yourself insane. I swear you'll regret graduating a semester early, as I see you are trying to do, if you end up looking back and realizing that you did and experienced nothing but studying. There's much more to college than classes and grades. </p>
<p>Unless you have to start in June, ( I know of at least one school that has freshman coming in under so many credits start classes in June) I think you should forget about college until May 26th at the latest. You should graduate, take the next day to sleep in and celebrate your new freedom with friends, and then start stressing about college the next day.</p>
<p>If you did follow through with that schedule, I don't think it's very challenging...most of your semester credits are on the lower end and one of your semesters is only 12 credits which is the bare minimum to be considered a full time student. From a grad school perspective it would seem you're trying to spread your courses out over summer (which is also a bad idea if you're a science major, since you can't do research while concurrently taking summer courses), and it so they would think you can't handle a rigorous courseload for a single semester. Feel free to disagree, but that's what I think.</p>
<p>I think you're taking too many summer classes. As someone who has taken classes the past two summers in college, I say from experience that it is usually more stress than you need. Summers 08 and 09 don't look TOO bad, since those classes are mostly intro type and such and therefore relatively easy, but summer 10 would be a killer. Also from experience, at least at my college, they often don't offer alot of the upper-level classes in the summer. So you may wind up with microbio and genetics not even offered then, or one might be but not the other. Personally, I would recommend if you MUST take summer classes, then substitute your first intro spanish class that summer with one of those classes, instead of taking two intense science classes together. </p>
<p>Also, I do agree with everyone else. This should only be a VERY rough guideline of what you are taking. Things will change, courses will be dropped and added from the semester schedule, and you might even change your major or decide to double major or add a minor. Any number of things could happen. Trust me, I made out schedules like this when first started college too, but many many things have happened since then: I failed chemistry, I dropped down to 12 hours last fall because I was so stressed out mentally, I changed my major, I added my French minor, I decided to study abroad next summer. Things happen.</p>
<p>I redid it...</p>
<p>I will post it later because I'm getting ready to go to a financial aid workshop and to speak with my college (college fair at my high school...) hoping they have some new materials...</p>
<p>Edited Schedule:</p>
<p>Summer of 2008:
ENGL 1101- English Composition
HIST 2112- U.S History since 1862
Total Credit hours: 6</p>
<p>Fall of 2008:
ENGL 1102- English Composition 2
MATH 1113- Pre-calculus
CHEM 1211- Principles of Chemistry
BIOL 2010- Unifying Principles of Biology
KSPE 1060- Jogging
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2009:
BIOL 2230- General Botany
CHEM 1212- Principles of Chemistry 2
POLS 1101- American Government
PERS 2430- Nutrition
Total Credit hours: 13</p>
<p>Fall of 2009:
ENGL 2130- Development of Modern Thought
BIOL 2270- General Zoology
CHEM 3401- Organic Chemistry
MATH 2261- Analytical Geometry and Calculus
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2010:
BIOL 3200- Genetics
CHEM 3402- Organic Chemistry 2
PSYCH 2500- Fundamentals of Psychology
SOCI 1101- Introduction to Sociology
Total credit hours: 14</p>
<p>Summer of 2010:
BIOL 3300- Ecology
PSYCH 2700- Human Growth and Development
Total Credit hours: 7</p>
<p>Fall of 2010:
PHYS 1111- Principles of Physics
BIOL 3450- Animal Physiology
SPAN 1101- Beginning Spanish
NUTR 3300- Introduction to Nutrition, Exercise and Health
KSPE 1020- Weight Training
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2011:
BIOL 3100- Microbiology
PHYS 1112: Principles of Physics 2
SPAN 1102- Beginning Spanish 2
BIOL 4600- Evolution
KSPE 1030- Step Aerobics
Total credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Fall of 2011:
CHEM 3601- Biostatistics
SPAN 1111- Intermediate Spanish
NUTR 4350- Eating Disorders
BIOL 4350- Vertebrate Embryology
Total Credit hours: 13</p>
<p>Spring 2012:
BIOL 3920- Herpetology
BIOL 4900- Senior Seminar
PERS 2740- Women and Work
Total Credit Hours: 7</p>
<p>What's your major? Also, why don't you go ahead and take intermediate spanish 2 in that spr12 semester, so you might have a full courseload then. You need to have at least 12 hours, because if you have loans, often they will have to be paid back if you get below full time or 3/4 time (9hrs). </p>
<p>Again, I hope you're just taking this as a very very rough estimate of what you should take when.</p>
<p>Biology is my declared major....</p>
<p>Glad to see that you dropped all those summer courses. Having down time from classes is a good thing.</p>