<p>17? 18?..</p>
<p>Every college sets a limit on the number of credits that can be taken each semester without paying extra tuition. Otherwise, some students would try to load up on courses each term in order to reduce the amount of time – and the amount of tuition to be paid – before receiving their degree. Where BC’s policy is different from most other schools is that it focuses on the number of courses rather than the number of credits.</p>
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<p>So the full-time load for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors is a nominal 15 credits per semester. However, that doesn’t count special one-credit courses like the Freshman Topic Seminars (in A&S), and some classes, particularly many of the lab sciences, are four credits. So anywhere between 15 and 17-18 credits (if you take a few 4-credit classes, for example) is “normal.”</p>
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<p>So depending on the particular classes, a student could theoretically take as many as 24 credits a semester (if they wanted to kill themselves with six 4-credit courses!) without paying extra tuition – provided they were doing it to double major or pick up a minor, etc. rather than trying to graduate early.</p>
<p>The key is six courses per semester, not the number of credits.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>