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Check your college catalog, especially the information about graduation requirements - I suggest this, because most freshmen have very limited choices when it comes to their first one or two years of college coursework.

Most schools require their incoming students to complete a broad series of courses - it's known by a whole variety of different names from school to school, but it's often called something like the "general distribution" sequence. Designed to create "well-rounded" students and to introduce students to new disciplines they might otherwise never have considered, these course sequences usually require students to take so many hours of social and behavioral sciences, so many hours of mathematics, so many hours of science, so many hours of foreign language, so many hours of fine arts, etc.

Most of the more advanced courses require pre-requisites for registration - you can't take certain courses unless you've already passed more introductory level classes.

These general distribution courses are the courses that your AP credits may transfer as "waivers", but otherwise, it's generally expected that freshmen (and often sophomores) concentrate on getting these courses out of the way, before beginning your more advanced major course of study.

It's not that you have to take one specific course, but the general distribution is often set up like the old-fashioned Chinese restaurant takeout menus - you need to take one course from any of the 5 in column A, two courses from the 4 in column B, etc.

Almost every school requires courses in English composition - many students like to get these out of the way early because they take up a lot of time. If you don't get a composition course waiver from your AP English exam, that's something you might want to look at early in your college "career".

Most of the other general distribution courses are what are known as "survey" courses, which serve as introductions to some of the undergraduate majors. You'll have choices from subjects like Introduction to Psychology, Intro Sociology and Introduction to Accounting - if you have some thought about majors that interest you, you should aim for some of those courses - they'll fulfill part of your requirements - and they'll give you an overview of the subject matter.

Definitely read your academic catalog and orientation materials carefully - if you have any questions, your best resource will be the advising department at the school.

Good luck to you!

I think your advisor will be your biggest help. He or she can guide you in the right direction, and tell you what classes will benefit you most over your college career. If you've decided on a major, it would be good to take courses in that direction. For example, I'm an English major and made a 5 on AP Lit, so I got out of basic Comm classes and was able to start on upper division courses. Or if you're a business major, start with basic marketing, management, that kind of thing.

You'll have to take some basics, but you can generally spread those out throughout your first two years. I would recommend taking the harder ones at smaller colleges in the area in the summer so you can focus on the courses that really matter.

I wouldn't recommend taking more than 16 hours your first semester. From that, you'll know how much you can handle. Being a psych/pre-med, you'll probably have to take more hours per semester later on. But I wouldn't recommend more than that at first.

I know I keep editing, but I looked at your sr year courseload again. If you're successfully juggling all of those AP classes, you can definitely handle 16-18 hours. In my experience, the majority of college classes aren't that much more difficult than AP. Usually less difficult.

What's your major? That could be a big help for people to recommend classes!

english definetly, and foreign language.