<p>oh wow. thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>i guess i will take chem instead of bio…
but i dont know when to take bio … unless my AP test takes care of it, but i doubt it</p>
<p>My D was a pre-med biology major (although at a different school). She had an AP credit for BIO and although she also earned credit for Chemistry, it is true she was advised to take Chem I & II plus Organic Chem I & II. She was glad she did, by the way, because she said later that Chem II would have been too difficult to jump right into without the Chem I refresher. It helped her maintain the gpa she wanted/needed.</p>
<p>She was worried that taking the AP credit for Bio would put her at a disadvantage in follow on biology classes. It didn’t.</p>
<p>It sounds to me like your adviser is giving you good direction here. I also concur that you shouldn’t have a tough schedule the 1st semester. I’d try to keep your hours at no more than 14-15, max. Also it is true about the sequencing that was mentioned and needing to take Chem I 1st semester, Chem II second semester. Only VERY LARGE universities will have a Chem II offered out-of-sequence. Smaller universities, like Tulane, for example, won’t likely offer anything but the normal sequence, Chem I in fall, Chem II in spring. My D ran into a problem like this for Physics when she went abroad in a spring semester.</p>
<p>You always need to consider scheduling issues and never assume you can just “take it later”.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>i was wondering about studying abroad during junior year? will that cause a lot of problems with courses?</p>
<p>Not if you plan for it from the beginning. This is another thing to talk to your advisor about, but certainly many, many students do this and graduate without problems. It just takes a bit of thought and planning ahead of time, and your advisor will have been through this with hundreds or thousands of students. They will know what to do.</p>
<p>Just a note,</p>
<p>I recently attended orientation with my daughter and it was strongly recommended that all students take at least 16 credits. Their theory was that many first semester freshman find they need to drop a course for various reasons and having at least 16 credits lets you drop a 4 credit course and still be full time. I suggest you e-mail your advisor.</p>
<p>thanks, but if i drop a class, i will still have 12 credits. is that still full time?</p>
<p>12 is the minimum credit threshold for full-time student status. However, to make it on the Dean’s List you need a minimum of 14 credits. They don’t emphasize that which is somewhat frustrating. My recommendation is to not take too strenuous a course load your first semester, considering both number of classes taken and difficulty of classes. That way you can adjust to college life with less stress and find your balance without threatening your GPA.</p>
<p>if I drop a class, can i add a new class to my schedule? i dont drop classes often, considering i only did it once in high school…</p>
<p>btw, what is dean’s list?</p>
<p>Dean’s list you can search on the Tulane web site. But it is just an announcing of the students that achieved a certain GPA that semester, assuming they took enough credits. It is considered a worthy achievement, especially if you can say after you graduate “Made Dean’s List every semester” or “6 out of 8 semesters”. At a certain level of consistency it is worth noting, although it probably exists more so parents can brag to other parents.</p>
<p>You can add classes only until a short time after the semester starts. Obviously you would be too far behind otherwise. You can drop later, but there are rules about that too. Again, you should start familiarizing yourself with the various calendars and other resources that are on the Tulane site. This is critical stuff for any student.</p>