Advice on classes please :) *also any saddleback students out there?

Hello, everyone,

I'm very happy to be here! I'm a 32 year old single mom going back to school for the first time in years and would love some advice on the classes I plan to take this coming semester.

Thankfully, I have a lot of help from my soon-to-be ex husband and my mother with watching my toddler, and we've also moved into my mom's house to make it so I won't have to work while I'm in school for the next few years.

I've got most of my IGETC done from Cal State Long Beach and basically have math to take and a speech class, other than that, my AD is done, but none of my classes were for nursing/science, as I was a business major way back then!

Sooooooo .......

The classes I have to choose from or that I would like to take at the local CC in my area (and which I've successfully registered a few) are:

Intro to Chemistry 108 = 4
Intro to Biology 20 = 4
Math = 5
Lifecycle (1 & 2) = 3 units
Anatomy = 4
Speech 5 = 3
Microbiology = 5
Physiology = 4

On the school site, it recommends to take the intro to bio and chemistry classes if you haven't had biology in years. So, my question is this: For all of you students, do you really believe this is the case? I mean, I will study myself crazy and have had biology (it was just 15 years ago )! If I don't take any of my prerequisites this spring, that means, I can only take anatomy this summer, if I can even get in to the class, and then at best double up in the fall with microbiology and physiology (which the school doe NOT recommend anyway)!

So, I would love some advice from students who have done this/are doing this, etc. Also, I will need to take a math class in the fall as well since I'm behind in my math - so, my load will not be as light with just science and it looks like I will have between 14-16 units the next year while doing my prerequisites, which, I can handle, I just would love some guidance from fellow students!

Thanks so much!

** If any Saddleback students are here and have advice, it would be lovely, too!