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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my university, it wasn't a specific class, but the combination of classes.

Ex - 2nd semester of Freshman year included
- Calc 2 (4 hours)
- 2nd semester chemistry (3-4 hours depending on if you had a lab)
- 1st semester of physics (4 hours)

The chem + physics combo was difficult, esp. with the English lit requirement and some sort of humanities. If you didn't have both completed at the end of your freshman year, you could not matriculate into your accepted major. (e.g., you wouldn't officially be Mechanical Engineering). Some kids I know were happy to delay physics until sophomore year. Others took it over summer school. Others took both sciences all in 1 semester and hated life. And some changed majors.

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Whew!  would be helpful for readers if you could kindly name the school.[/quote]

Pull up any top Engineering program and you will find similar: the first semester is usually Chem, Physics, whatever Calc level they place into, an intro engineering course(or intro programming), then the 5th class is an elective, ie 5 credits per semester.  Schools that count hours not credits, it is typically 19-20 hours per semester. 
The intro stem courses can be slightly harder than AP to much harder than AP, depending on the rigor of the school. 
3-4 Stem courses in one semester is de rigueur for E schools, at least the top private/ivy or top public ones. Everyone does it, summers are not needed to spread it out unless one is bottom of the pack and gets below a 3.2 first semester (academic probation at many ivy types, because it is bottom 10-15%)[/quote]

This is neither accurate nor helpful [/quote]

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