College question: What's the most amount of classes/credits you've taken in 1 semester?

[Piano Man]

I've taken 22 hours of credit 2 semesters ago. Not fun.

 

[SpongeBob]

Originally posted by: iamme
15-16 is a normal load, I think.

Anyone take 18-20 in one semseter?

Here's a breakdown of my semesters and relative credits:

FR1 - 19
FR2 - 19
SO1 - 19
SO2 - 21
JR1 - 18
JR2 - 21
SR1 - 20
SR2 - 16

I have one more semester left - 16 Credits.

 

[Scootin159]

only ever taken 16

 

[Tiger]

20 once. Stupid move.

 

[burnedout]

18 while a full-time student years ago. Took 12 and worked full time during fall semester last year and earned a 3.5 GPA. Taking 16 hours and working full time this fall. All but 6 hours I consider in the "very easy" catagory.

 

[LanEvoVI]

In my school (Cooper Union) and major (EE), 18 credits per semester is the usual course load. I like to take one language elective so most semesters I've been here I've had 20 credits or more.

Surprisingly enough, the semester where I did the worst was the semester of my freshman year where I only took 13.5 credits. I found that I had so much free time that it when I actually needed to study I could never really pull myself away from recreational activities.

 

[Schadenfreude]

I usually take 12 hours. My biggest load was 15 hours, and it sucked ass. Reason being, I'm in other classes not counted for hours - if they were, my avg. class load would be 25 hours! I was trying to juggle a job as well, and had to boreak up with a G/F a while ago because of this (it wasn't going anywhere anyways

) . . ..

 

[joemamma]

fall semster of my last year i took 18 units....i had 8 o'clock class everyday...for some reason it was the best semester i ever had and also i did great without studying too much....strange cos in retrospect i worked much harder in past semesters and didn't do as well in comparison

 

[linuxboy]

Never went to a semester institution. But on a quarter system I did a 36 credit quarter once. That was ages ago though.

Max classes was 10.


Those of you working and taking classes have my kudos. Very hard to do.

Cheers !

 

[civad]

16 ..that was the maximum I could in my school...and it maxed out my brain!

 

[IgorFL]

Took 20 hours my first semester in college... and got a 4.0

Never again..... though.... Sometimes, I think I'm still recovering.

 

[matsuhisa]

i've taken 20 units in one quarter. it was hell but it allowed me to take out in four years.

my friend and i was thinking and it's actually better to take a moderate load in order to give yourself time to study for the course. i think if i could do it over again.. i would rather grad in 5 and get better grades compared to finishing in 4 and getting worse grades.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: JW310
The max number of credits one can take here at RPI is 21, while the average load is 16-17 credits for the most part.

Of course, with most of our classes being 4 credits, it usually works out where one takes 4 x 4 credit classes, and then maybe a one-credit course here and there. It's part of the 4x4 scheduling that RPI switched to a couple years ago (possibly last year, my freshman year).

Most I've taken at one time is 17... both semesters last year.

JW

Yikes! Someone else from RPI :Q

I took 21 credits for a couple of semesters when I was there. It wasn't too bad because I was taking the "overload" class as pass/fail. And when you go to RPI, you have no social life anyway...just kidding (sort of). Actually wish I had squeezed in another course or two during my undergraduate years while the tuition was a fixed amount. It would have made my graduate year (when I had to pay by credit hour) a little cheaper.

 

[brtspears2]

17 units, 4 classes, 3 labs, 1 discussion.

To break that down ...

4 classes @ 3hr/week each = 12 hours
3 labs @ 3 hours/week each = 9 hours
1 discussion @ 1 hour/week each = 1
22 hours + homework + study time = no time left. Silly EE. Fun but your time, gone.

 

[tcsenter]

The second half of my clinicals were, IIRC, considered 23 credits hours, yet even with out travel we were in class or working in the hospital 37.5 hours per week (5 days). In my case, add another 7.5 hours of drive time per week. I forget how they figured their credit hours.

 

[Bluga]

35 hours, Mandatory.

 

[Mday]

22 credits...

4 classes\lectures and 2 "labs"