<p>I took 22 twice, 24 in a 12 week summer session, and 23 credits one semester. The 23 credits I took included:</p>
<p>Bus Analysis Seminar in IT, Manufacturing Processes, Data Mgmt For Ind Engrs, Fac Plan & Matl Hand, Disc-Event Simulation, Industrial Ergonomics, Business Policy and Strategy, and Statistics for Engr.</p>
<p>^^ good point. for me though, even if it meant graduating later, i think i’d take it a little easy. i mean, what’s an extra year in school in the grand scheme of things??</p>
<p>^^ Oh, just around $25,000 that we don’t have, since there are two more siblings to pay for after Son #1!</p>
<p>^I only know about my school, but you actually pay more per credit hour as you go over 18, so it’s actually more expensive to do that. If someone wanted to graduate a year early at my school and came in with no credits (and took no summers) they would pay a fair bit more than if they did it in 4 years.</p>
<p>At my school 12 to 22 credits all cost the same. I guess if you had to pay for your kids to live on campus the bill would rack up quickly with extra years. I commute to school so an extra year for me adds no extra cost, except for gas.</p>
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<p>NOW THAT’S LIVING ON THE EDGE!!! lol</p>
<p>Okay 39units hour per weeks.</p>
<p>that means let’s count 4 per courses,
39/4 = 9.75
10 courses.
This is amazing. I don’t even think you can fit this into your 5 days schedule.
Prove it, or just a lie.</p>
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<p>Of course, that 39 credits can be a different system :)</p>
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<p>■■■■■ hall of shame :)?</p>
<p>I’ll come into college with about 30 credits. Should I take it slightly easier my first year or should I still take 15-18 credits?</p>
<p>pffft. n00bs. <em>I</em> took 132 credits in a single semester and got all A’s. Received my bachelors degree from MIT in a matter of months.</p>
<p>But seriously:</p>
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<p>Take what you are comfortable with and what you can fit into your schedule. If you are a full-time student with no job or other responsibilities to worry about, then by all means take 15-18 credits. I know I would if I could, but I can’t so I won’t.</p>
<p>Stupid full-time job and mortgage…phooey.</p>
<p>I took 22 hours one term, but was able to offset this with taking only 5 hours my last term when I was busy traveling around the country for job interviews. Of course, this was long ago when chemical engineering was very hot and the job offers were abundant.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you have to get all kinds of overrides from Georgia Tech to take more than 21 hours. I take 18 and people think I’m crazy. Granted, that’s 6 engineering classes for CompE. But still! Lab classes eat up all kind of time, and if one wants a social life to go along with classes, more than that would be difficult to keep a 4.0 with.</p>
<p>My most was 18 or 19 and I graduated in 4 years in ECE. I was reading there was a triple major at Cornell who took 55/semester or around that area. There’s a guy from UVA who got his bachelor in 1 year. I don’t know how many credits he took / semester.</p>
<p>GraysonAU!! you are the person I want to talk to. I’m freaking out about my upcoming spring semester and I’m taking 27 units including chem, anatomy, history, math, speech, and 2 english classes.
You gotta tell me about your experience!</p>
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<p>Taking large number of courses or credits can be done if none of them are high workload courses. For example, taking three courses, each of which has a lab, heavy computer programming assignments, big term project (either technical or H/SS), or huge amounts of reading (H/SS), is probably about the same work as five or six courses which have none of these time-consuming features (e.g. math and math-like courses).</p>
<p>What it means is that if you look at your future courses and find a semester heavy in labs, programming, or projects, you may want to try to redistribute your courses so that you don’t take too many such courses in the same semester. Or take fewer courses or credits that semester, while taking more courses or credits when they do not have labs, programming, or projects.</p>
<p>Yeah… maybe it takes 22 to grad in 4 years if you’re failing 2 classes a semester, haha. </p>
<p>It shouldn’t take more than 16 per semester if you’re scheduling right. Most schools require 120-130 credits for a BS, which is 15-16 credits per semester if you aren’t taking classes in the summer.</p>
<p>Son has always taken 17-19 to stay on track. You get the extra credit or so in classes that have lecture, recitation and lab, I believe. His engineering program requires 130 credits to graduate. He started Jr year with 130 (ha) but has to stay the full 4 years.</p>
<p>Started college with 45 credits given to him by school via his AP classes. Took 3 or 4 online general ed classes one summer to get them out of the way. Had a summer internship last summer and took an engineering class on campus. AP’s don’t help an engineering major much as there are so few gen ed classes and no electives you can use those credits for. </p>
<p>Yes, it’s tough but very rewarding when you do well with this difficult schedule. Time management is key. (Son somehome finds time to do paid research on campus as well.)</p>
<p>mmullikan- Take those English and history classes online as my son did. There was 2 summer sessions so it was not a problem to take two at a time. Lighten that load!!</p>
<p>14 Credits in Fall 2011 but if Wintermester (2-3 Wks) is counted in then 17 Credit hours with a 35 Hour/Wk FT Job.</p>
<p>26 this semester (Spring 2012). It’s spread over 8 classes, and while they’re not all hard, it seems like a bunch of stuff that’s going to give me homework (Calculus, C++ Programming, Accounting, Political Science, Small business management, etc.)</p>
<p>I took 23 last semester and kept my 4.0, but we’ll see how this one goes.</p>