<p>dropping/adding classes. A lot of people have told me that the best way to do your college schedules is too sign up for too many classes then drop the worst one. Is this hard to do at ND? What's the best advice for selecting classes that either 1. are really worthwhile or 2. can boost your gpa</p>
<p>First semester you can't really do that because your FYS advisor sets your schedule and they only allow 17 credit hours I believe for freshmen without college approval. 17 hours is enough for 5 classes (15 hours) and some labs/ one credit courses/ music lessons.</p>
<p>You can't overload until your junior year and even then you have to have permission. Overall it is a lot harder to drop classes your freshman year but it is really pretty easy after that. I know plenty of people who add an extra class with the idea of dropping one of them but I never can do that; I always put in so much work that by the time it is to drop I can't let all of that just go to waste! It depends on your view, but I have only dropped one class in my college career after the add/drop date and that was before the second week of the course (it just wasn't what I thought it would be). There are people who do that, however, and you just have to do what works for you. My advice would be to have 15 solid credits that you think you can complete and then you still can drop one class and have 12 if something goes horribly wrong.</p>
<p>both of those posts were true</p>