Birds of Prey #103?

Question

Barbara was 16 when she went to college(read BOP#103)and said she took 62 credits per semester so how many years was she than done with college or explain me wath the whole deal is with credits and everything.

i dont come the U.S.A. so please help

Answer 1

In the USA most colleges divide the school year in two - a 14 week Fall term and a 14 week Spring term. (some schools divide the year in three 11 week parts).

In each term (or "semester") a student usually takes four or five courses. Each course meets 14 weeks and one two or three hours a week. For each hour the course meets each week, that is one credit. A course that meets three times a week (one hour each time) for 14 weeks, would be a three credit course.

So a normal amount of courses would be five courses times three credits, or 15 credit in one term. Sometimes if you are a good student or if you are taking easy courses, you might take one or at most two extra courses. A 21 credit course load would be considered a very heavy load. No one takes 60 credits in one term unless the school is measuring credits in some very unusual and non-standard way.

Student take about 15 to 18 credits in fall, 15 to 18 in spring, for four years, so the total number of credits they need for a degree is about 115 to 135 depending on what program they are in. Generally science students and engineers have to take more credits because they have courses with laboratory assignments.

The websites for different colleges often tell exactly how many credits you need for a degree.

Answer 2

Credits are just like how much a class is "worth". To get a degree you have to have a certain number of credits in a designated number of areas. For most people this takes four years but for people that can work their credits (some classes count as credits towards two separate areas) it can take a lot less time. The college I went to, for the most part, a math, computer or science class was four credits and almost everything else was three. There were some classes that only had two credits and a few that didn't stick with the aforementioned rule. For instance, when I started I was below the college level in math so my first math class was only worth three credits instead of four.

Your major is directly related to how many credits it takes to graduate. Like a Chemistry major takes a lot of math and science classes which give more credits than, say, language and history classes so, at the end of the whatever number of years it takes to get your degree, a Chem major will have more credits than an English major but there's a chance they took the same number of classes.

I don't really see how someone can get 62 credits a semester though. I was a bio major before I "dropped out" (lack of fundage, I'm working on it) and even in my most studious semester I only garnished 24 credits and that was only because I had a letter from the educational counselor saying I was allowed to take more than the "recommended" number of classes (something, btw, I do *not* recommend doing unless you have absolutely no social life, no need for sleep and know of a 24 hour library. I only met two of those criteria and at the end of term I literally passed out from exhaustion).

Ugh. There's also the problem that some states work differently. I'm pretty sure we all use the same credit scheme because the high schools use it (I went to four high schools in three states and they all used credits) but I don't know if the distribution would be different. They were all pretty much the same when I was in high school but I've only gone to Texas colleges so I can't really be sure about, like, a college in New York, Cali or Idaho. And I'm not familiar with Birds of Prey so I don't know what state they're in.