<p>Hello everyone. I'm really wanting to put in one good hard year of college and was really wanting to take a full load during the summer, like get my calculus, introductory engineering, and some sciences out of the way. However I do not want to do these in the regular 6 week summer semesters. My question is, do colleges offer long summer sessions like maybe that are 12 weeks long so the coursework would not be so fast paced? I did find a community college in my area that did this but they only offered CE credit and I do not have a clue what that is. Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>It’s going to depend on the school, so you’ll have to do your research based-up the schools you’re looking at. I can speak for GW only, and they don’t offer summer-long math or science classes. They have Summer I and Summer II sessions.</p>
<p>It’s school dependent, but in my experience, most summer classes are six weeks long. The other factor to consider is burnout. Rushing through things just to tick off the boxes isn’t really a great idea.</p>
<p>My school does offer a 15 week semester and two 8 week semesters, but not all classes are available during the longer semestre. </p>
<p>I agree that you should wait and see how things turn out. Your first year of college can be very draining because you have to get used to the work and responsibility, so you might want to take the summer off or only do one class or two.</p>
<p>From my experience, I took one class during summer I the summer after my freshman year and studied abroad for a month during summer II this past summer, and that was perfect for me. I think i liked the summer I experience better because I was transitioning from a fully packed winter semester instead of 3 months of summer, but ymmv. </p>