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hey all,
i'm attending a top twenty liberal arts college this fall and am taking the following:
Calc 1 (not worried as I got a 5 on both Calc APs)
freshman english course
intro to philosophy
intro to psychology or ez math course or something else

1/3 of the students at my school have 3.5+
how hard would it be to get these kinda grades?

thanks in advance,
mario

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hey all,
i'm attending a top twenty liberal arts college this fall and am taking the following:
Calc 1 (not worried as I got a 5 on both Calc APs)
freshman english course
intro to philosophy
intro to psychology or ez math course or something else

1/3 of the students at my school have 3.5+
how hard would it be to get these kinda grades?

thanks in advance,
mario

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Not very, in all likelihood. I had a fairly similar first semester myself, though I had Comp Sci I instead of English and Intro to Economics instead of philosophy. I got a 3.6 (A A B+ B).

Best of luck to you.

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do you think it's a waste to take calc one after getting two fives?

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Is your college giving you credit for it?

If it is, yes. Otherwise, I see no reason not to take it.

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no i can take w/e i want
suppose i wanna transfer
do you think it looks retarded then?

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no i can take w/e i want
suppose i wanna transfer
do you think it looks retarded then?

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likely they won't know or care.

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they'll see my high school classes
don't worry about it?

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If you're not getting credit for your APs, then it's only logical to take it.

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With those vanilla classes and the fact that you only have 4 there is no real reason why you shouldnt get good grades, maybe even great ones.

1. You're already very good at Calc (apparently).
2. Psych is a joke.
3. Freshman English is generally a joke but can be challenging (maybe take an Honors course?)
4. Intro to Philosophy can be very stimulating, but is also pretty easy. If you can create a coherent argument at all then you should be fine.

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is psych always a joke?
i'm not worried about calc but am somewhat worried about psych...i'm not really interested in struggling with a class...

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Intro psych tests at my school were always 50 multiple choice questions. That and the fact that psych is such a huge area with so many different varieties (bio, developmental, cognitive, social, etc.) makes it hard for a whole lot of specifics to be covered in Intro Psych. It's basically just a glossing over of everything.

So in my experience, yes, always a joke.

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Intro psych tests at my school were always 50 multiple choice questions. That and the fact that psych is such a huge area with so many different varieties (bio, developmental, cognitive, social, etc.) makes it hard for a whole lot of specifics to be covered in Intro Psych. It's basically just a glossing over of everything.

So in my experience, yes, always a joke.

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QFT. At my college it had the reputation of being the second easiest class there (just behind something called "Deep Listening," whatever that is).

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is it based on memorizing or having decent science skills or what?

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For me, it was reading the textbook and attending half of the lectures. I didn't take notes while reading and took only a few notes during lecture. Your mileage may vary.

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If you try, you should be fine. Your classes are pretty much a joke.

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isn't this a fairly standard freshman fall course load? what here is slacker?

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compete for knowledge, not grades

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I took Fitness Walking for my PE at NCSU...take that class at your school if they offer it

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isn't this a fairly standard freshman fall course load? what here is slacker?

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Didn't say you were slacking or that this wasnt a normal freshman load.

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what liberal arts college?

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compete for knowledge, not grades

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lol. Very little of the worthwhile knowledge one obtains in college comes from the lecture hall.

I do understand what you are trying to say though. But everyone needs to figure out what they want from college on their own. A good way to start is with an easy course load that keeps the stress level down while you get acclimated to things.

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compete for knowledge, not grades

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lol. Very little of the worthwhile knowledge one obtains in college comes from the lecture hall.

I do understand what you are trying to say though. But everyone needs to figure out what they want from college on their own. A good way to start is with an easy course load that keeps the stress level down while you get acclimated to things.

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I wasn't being completely serious, but at the same time I think that the OP's post and his already worrying about what grades he's going to get is kind of ridiculous.

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If you try, you should be fine. Your classes are pretty much a joke.

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qft

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probably not that ridiculous if i wanna transfer

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3. Freshman English is generally a joke but can be challenging (maybe take an Honors course?)
4. Intro to Philosophy can be very stimulating, but is also pretty easy. If you can create a coherent argument at all then you should be fine.

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The difficulty of freshman English depends on who is teaching it. Liberal Arts colleges typically have full time faculty teaching freshman English, and that can make it more difficult than a large school, where TAs are teaching it. I always found philosophy professors to grade tough.

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Man, stop being a girl. If you're worried about an intro to psych class then god help you later on. college is easy if you work once in awhile. gl to you

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All of these are retardly easy with the exception of freshman english.

I got 5's on AP lit & AP lang, and never had to take it. But i know of MANY people who got their only b bc of stupid TA's giving everyone in the class of 300 a B+ to B-. Teh problem is not a hard teacher, its a disinterested teacher. once they've read 100 papers, everything is a B. I feel so lucky i didnt ruin my 4.0 (got ruined a year later by other stuff) freshman year with english. The teachers were a joke from what i heard, but gave like 5% A's.

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All of these are retardly easy with the exception of freshman english.

I got 5's on AP lit & AP lang, and never had to take it. But i know of MANY people who got their only b bc of stupid TA's giving everyone in the class of 300 a B+ to B-. Teh problem is not a hard teacher, its a disinterested teacher. once they've read 100 papers, everything is a B. I feel so lucky i didnt ruin my 4.0 (got ruined a year later by other stuff) freshman year with english. The teachers were a joke from what i heard, but gave like 5% A's.

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this is the type of course i try to stear away from when choosing electives. hard to pull an A or better, especially cause i suck at writing essays.

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its a disinterested teacher

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Maybe its cause you need to work on the difference between uninterested and disinterested.

Please don't quote me an antiquated usage as validation plskthx.

Side Note: I hope all decision makers are disinterested.

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Thremp,
nice.

OP,
I bet you could take the psych final NOW and get a reasonable grade if you have some knowledge of trivia, logic, and multiple choice concepts. Attend a few lectures and do whatever you need to do to memorize a few lists, and it's an A fo sho.

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its all about how dedicated of a student you are. if you're willing to put in the time to learn the material you'll get the grades.

side note, i found high school success did not correlate very well to college success.

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In my experience, college grades, especially early on, were more about discipline and adjusting to newfound freedom than anything else.

As far as the calc, that seems like a good question for your academic adviser. But to me, it seems silly to take a class like that just to give yourself a lighter load. Save those opportunities for your junior/senior years, when you'll really appreciate them.