Can I take 6 courses in a sem?

Yeah you can. If a 100% courseload for you is considered doing 30 units in one academic school year, and you took 12 units worth of courses in term 1 and 18 worth in term 2 you should be fine though it would be hard I believe.

EDIT:
I looked at some previous threads regarding this same question and people have responded that you need a S.A. of 7.0

You can, but as herBS said, you do need to have a specific average in order to be allowed to overload. It makes sense really, if you went through a semester with 5 courses and got a 51% average, the school isn't going to let you take 6 courses the following semester, because you probably need to spend more time on your studies in order to pass, and taking 20% more courses isn't going to help you with that really.

I had always heard that you needed to submit an application or letter or something in order to be given permission to overload, but I was able to overload earlier this year and add a sixth course for next semester just through SOLAR alone. So I'm not really too sure how that works.

Originally Posted by herBs

Yeah you can. If a 100% courseload for you is considered doing 30 units in one academic school year, and you took 12 units worth of courses in term 1 and 18 worth in term 2 you should be fine though it would be hard I believe.

EDIT:
I looked at some previous threads regarding this same question and people have responded that you need a S.A. of 7.0

You need an average of 7 to overload...but what you described isn't overloading, it's just having unbalanced terms.

Originally Posted by nerual

You need an average of 7 to overload...but what you described isn't overloading, it's just having unbalanced terms.

I know that. The OP didn't really clarify if they are going to actually be overloading in their academic year or simply have unbalanced terms.

Yeah, for overloading (33 credits a year), you need to ask for permission and have a SA of >7 to be considered.

I know for a fact that taking 6 or 7 courses is very common in engineering; other faculties I do not know for certain, therefore I shall simply agree with the helpful people above me.

depends on program.
6 courses a semester is standard for me....
40 units, still not considered overloading for me lol (i need 23 units in one semester to be considered overloading)

But ya 6 courses isn't the easiest thing in the world

Originally Posted by Zachary

I know for a fact that taking 6 or 7 courses is very common in engineering; other faculties I do not know for certain, therefore I shall simply agree with the helpful people above me.

It's not considered overloading in engineering. It is in other faculties.

Originally Posted by Faer

Yeah, for overloading (33 credits a year), you need to ask for permission and have a SA of >7 to be considered.

That's what I thought, but I didn't need to ask for permission. I just added the extra course in SOLAR and it went through fine.

Originally Posted by nerual

It's not considered overloading in engineering. It is in other faculties.

That's actually specific to the Engineering program - Computer Science is the same 30 unit/year as everyone else, even though we're in the Faculty of Engineering.

Originally Posted by Andrew A

That's what I thought, but I didn't need to ask for permission. I just added the extra course in SOLAR and it went through fine.



That's actually specific to the Engineering program - Computer Science is the same 30 unit/year as everyone else, even though we're in the Faculty of Engineering.

I've got 33 units this year, maybe its because we're in the faculty of engineering we don't need permission.

Yes, but there are stipulations (must be in a certain year - usually 1st years aren't allowed to, must have above a 9.5 or something). Also you have to pay extra tuition for that added course.

Originally Posted by julianface

I've got 33 units this year, maybe its because we're in the faculty of engineering we don't need permission.

Maybe. That would be kinda weird though since CS doesn't actually have a higher unit load per year, so I'm not sure how they justify letting us overload without permission. Maybe it's just a loophole that we're accidentally exploiting

I think if you overload you have to pay an overload fee. Correct me if I'm wrong though

Originally Posted by muons

I think if you overload you have to pay an overload fee. Correct me if I'm wrong though

I dont believe there is a fee, since when they changed my tuition, i found the price amount for each credit (i dont feel like finding it again) and engineering pay for up to 33 credits and all the other faculties pay for up to 30. that means that while im taking 40 credits, im only pay for 30 of them, and if an engineer from the regular stream takes 40 credits, they pay for 33.

i believe there is a link if you look at your payment agreement, click on the supplimentry fees button and then there is a link somewhere there that will direct to another page for the actual costs.