how many credits should i take my first semester in college?

Question

I will be a freshman this fall, and i am currently enrolled in 5 classes, totaling 16 credits. I am considering dropping one 3 credit class, just to lighten my load a little my first semester? Does this sound like a good idea? my major is exercise science, and i am taking Intro to Exercise Science, Anatomy and Physiology with Lab, Applied Statistics, World Civilization, and American Music. I am thinking about dropping the Music class because i think those other classes might be a lot of work and i don't want to stress myself out my first semester. Any suggestions?

thanks! :)

Answer 1

It is hard to determine your first semester of college what you can and what you cannot handle. I think dropping one class may be a good idea because you want to do well your first semester because it will be a good basis for the rest of your freshman year. Since you are taking Intro to Exercise Sci, Anatomy and Physiology with a Lab I might even suggest you drop the Stats class because World Civ (if it is level one and required) and American Music might be good to just get out of the way (I'm assuming they are required courses) and sound kind of easy, obviously I can't say for sure but there's always ratemyprofessors.com and you can check what students before you have said to get an idea if you know your profs names.



For your first semester, work hard, but be sure not to stress to much, because after all you do have the time to change your mind and repair poor grades if the need arises. Most universities and colleges have pass/fail options just in case, see what your college's policies are for stuff like that.



Hope this helps, Good luck with your freshman year!

Answer 2

There are 3 semesters in a year, and 4 quarters. So for 14 semester credits you would need 19 quarter credits. But just to make sure check with BSU and make sure the classes you take will transfer. That way you will be safest.

Answer 3

Based on your major, it looks like you are taking what appears to be a class that may challenging but you will be very interested in, a class that is hard but you are likely to pass with some effort, something that you may not really know yet why you need to take it, something that you think is easy and something people told you it may be easy.



There is nothing there to indicate a problem because at least 1.5 of your classes will likely be easier than you think so it is not really a heavy load. You may also find that taking extra classes in your first year, easy or difficult, pays off later in your degree when you can take a normal load or less while others try to pile up classes in their last year and stress themselves out!

Answer 4

As long as you are comfortable and can handle those courses.

Freshman usually takes at least 12-14 credit hours.

Some can handle the maximum of credit hours they can take (example would be 18 credit hours).

This depends on their school of college and the workload of each course they registered for.



As long as you are still a full-time student, it doesn't matter the number of credits you registered for between 12-16 because the tuition would still be the same.

Therefore, some students decided to registered more classes in order to finish college early and/or because of doubing anothing major or minor.

Answer 5

It depend how much work you can handle. If it your first time in college, it best to start slow. If you think you can handle 12 or 13 credits, go for more. But don't bite off more than you can chew.

Also, make sure you are taking above 12 or more credits to be consider full-time.



Good luck :)