<p>This is what my schedule will be next semester. Do you think it's too heavy?</p>
<p>Calc-based Physics I
Organic Chemistry I w/ Lab
Physical Chemistry I
Computer Science I w/ Lab
Operations Research
and a random class for the Honors Program</p>
<p>I think I'm a pretty good student, I just want your opinion.</p>
<p>This is overkill. A lot of it depends on how smart you are, but you also have to be mature and responsible to take a heavy load of classes.</p>
<p>Are you a freshman?! If so, I would recommend that you scale down - at least the first semester. Use the first semester to gauge how much you can take and adjust to that from then.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. This will be my second year, and I’ll give you my schedule for last year:</p>
<p>First semester:
General Biology I w/ Lab
Honors General chemistry II w/ Lab
General Psychology
Honors English
Honors Speech
Marching Band
TEST OUT: General Chemistry I
TEST OUT: Composition I
TEST OUT: Composition II
TEST OUT: Calculus I
TEST OUT: Calculus II
TEST OUT: Calculus III
TEST OUT: Linear Algebra</p>
<p>Second semester:
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Nonmajors Organic/Biochemistry
Honors Seminar
Differential Equations
Concert Band
TEST OUT: General Biology II
TEST OUT: Spanish I
TEST OUT: Spanish II</p>
<p>If you think it seems reasonable given how your first year went, I say go for it. If it seems like too much in the beginning, then you can always drop a class. If you are considering dropping a class, I would drop p-chem since I wouldn’t want to take o-chem and p-chem at the same time (and I’m not a fan of chemistry =D), but you should have a better idea of what you’re capable of than we do.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t physical chemistry at your school require introductory physics as a prerequisite?</p>
<p>To be honest, the is overkill, but perhaps your university works different than mine.</p>
<p>@aldfig0 I don’t see why chemistry would be a prereq for physics.</p>
<p>^ He’s saying physics would be a pre-req for chem, not the opposite.</p>
<p>Also Physical Chemistry =/= General Chemistry; physics makes sense as a pre-req for Physical Chem. since it has a lot to do with physics concepts like properties of waves, wave mechanics, etc.</p>
<p>Oh, it’s not necessary and is understandable if a university doesn’t make it a prereq. Physical chemistry, gernally, deals with the basics of physics which are easily taught in the course itself.</p>
<p>At my school, some physical chemistry classes have a physics pre-req and some don’t. It may depend on the particular course the OP is taking or how their chem department does it.</p>
<p>My Pchem class doesn’t have a prerequisite at all! (Strange, I know!)</p>