Could the posters in the 4.0 competition thread please mention what kind of colleges you all are in. Because I am very impressed with the number of classes and your workload per semester.
My sister is studying pre-med at an elite but affordable 2-year postbacc program where they are encouraged to take ONLY two classes per semester (8 credits) by their advisor. Apparently they are extremely and incredibly challenging classes and that is about all you can reasonably manage if you study there. Even with those two classes a semester, most students end up with what they term "transcript damage". But many of you in the 4.0 competition thread seem to be taking so many classes - 19 credits or more and these seem to be challenging subjects - so I am very curious about the tier of your schools or the names of your schools. Maybe classes are easier at your school. Maybe my sister's post-bacc program is an anomaly and a bad place to be because many of them still seem to end up with very badly damaged GPA's despite just two classes a semester.
My sister is studying pre-med at an elite but affordable 2-year postbacc program where they are encouraged to take ONLY two classes per semester (8 credits) by their advisor. Apparently they are extremely and incredibly challenging classes and that is about all you can reasonably manage if you study there. Even with those two classes a semester, most students end up with what they term "transcript damage". But many of you in the 4.0 competition thread seem to be taking so many classes - 19 credits or more and these seem to be challenging subjects - so I am very curious about the tier of your schools or the names of your schools. Maybe classes are easier at your school. Maybe my sister's post-bacc program is an anomaly and a bad place to be because many of them still seem to end up with very badly damaged GPA's despite just two classes a semester.