12 hours, which is considered a full load, is a lot for a person who is working, too. I’ve got a couple degrees and have done some post-grad classes, and I can tell you, he’ll have plenty to do with 12 hours. Best to let him get used to the way college works, which professors he likes to listen to and can work with, etc., this first semester, and then if he decides to go for more hours the second one… no problem.

If he overloads himself with too many classes, he risks not doing well in them because he won’t have the time to apply himself as he should to each one. And you know how important it is to have a really good GPA in college. Most people who hire college graduates only look at the overall GPA when they look at a person’s college transcript, anyway.

Relax. College level work is hard, and freshman classes usually require a lot of writing and so forth, so he’d do well to stick with the 4 classes he’s probably already chosen.

This is not high school, mommy. He will have plenty of homework.