<p>Calc 1
Spanish 1
Into to Biology I
Biology Lab I
General Chem I
General Chem Lab I
Literature</p>
<p>Short answer: Probably.</p>
<p>Long answer: All of those courses tend to involve a lot of work. Spanish all by itself is a lot to take on for your first semester if you don’t have previous experience with the language. Biology and Chemistry both involve a lot of memorization, which eats further into your time. Lit will tend to have a lot of take-home read/write assignments. Calculus can be very hard if you aren’t a math person.</p>
<p>So, given all that, unless you are willing to spend virtually all of your free time studying, and have the force of will to actually do so, then I’d advise choosing one of those courses to drop. Still, it depends on your situation: If you are in a hurry to graduate or are not too worried about your GPA then it could be doable.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input. I have taken AP Calc. BC, familiar with Spanish fairly well, and have taken AP Bio. Will that change things?</p>
<p>If you can handle it (and sacrifice your social life), by all means go for it…but it seems like a stressful/overwhelming load to carry on. I would advise you to drop 1 or 2 of the classes.</p>
<p>How did you do on the APs? If you pulled off a passing grade on AP Calc BC, then calc 1 shouldn’t be a problem, and if you did well on AP bio then youn have a big head start on the memorization side, but if you pulled off passing grades on them, why don’t you already have credit for them?</p>
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<p>I’d say drop one class from that list. That course load would be 20 credits at my school, and only 18 are allowed per semester- and it’s not recommended that freshman take more than 16.</p>
<p>And YonderMountain, I could read that perfectly fine without any aid and I’ve never studied Spanish before… o.O</p>
<p>At my school, that would be considered 5 separate classes (including lab and class as 1 for each of those)…and freshmen only can take 4 classes that count for credit. You take 4, and on top of that can take a PE class or a music ensemble or lessons, but that’s it (unless you’re a music major…our credits work very differently, but for everyone else…4 classes)…so drop 1, especially because you have 2 on there that have labs and those take up time. That would be 5.5 units or 22 credits/semester hours at my school, and you can take maximum 4.5 (18 credits/semester hours) units your first semester (for non-music majors that is). For non-music majors…that many credits is considered an overload, and freshmen can’t overload. I’m taking 4.75 units or 19 credits/semester hours my first semester here and 5.5 units or 22 credits/semester hours 2nd semester, but that’s because I’m a music major.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions guys! I am going to drop lit and take it during the summer.</p>
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<p>Check your school’s recommendations on whether you should take more advanced courses (particularly if you got scores of 5 on the AP tests). Repeating material you already know is a waste of time and tuition.</p>
<p>However, in general, five subjects including two with labs tends to be a lot of work (probably about as much as seven non-lab courses), especially for a new student transitioning to a new school. If after the first week you find the workload too high, you may want to drop the one that is least critical to your major and other degree requirements.</p>
<p>If you’re coming in with experience from AP classes and a few years of spanish, you’ll be fine. This was basically my freshman schedule, but spanish was replaced by history.</p>
<p>Are you pre-med? Or even possibly thinking of going pre-med? If so, keep in mind that med schools generally will not accept AP credit in place of a college course. So if you got, say, a 4 on the AP Bio test- you’d still need a full year of intro to bio instead of taking that AP credit for bio 1 and beginning bio 2 in college.</p>
<p>@ ucbalumnus, I found it very helpful to retake Calc 1 at college. I took AB calc as a senior, but I learned some things through college calc 1 that I wasn’t taught in HS. Now, if i had taken AB and then started college with pre calc, that would be a waste.</p>