<p>Couldn’t attend the Open House - had some questions for existing students/students that went to Open House. I am using my daughter’s CC:</p>
<p>1) Can you have a double major? Are there minors at Amherst?</p>
<p>2) Study abroad- anyone have good information from current students. Did they have any issues with studying abroad and using their fin aid to do study abroad?</p>
<p>3) Any existing students have info for possible 3/2 program with other schools to get engineering degree?</p>
<p>You can double major (or even triple major) at Amherst. The open curriculum makes that a very feasible – and popular – option for students. There are no minors. </p>
<p>Students can also create their own interdisciplinary major wherein they combine up to three areas of study. (For example, a very poplar one recently has been international development: a combination of political science, anthropology, and economics.) </p>
<p>See my response in the other thread particularly about Study Abroad.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has an engineering program that can be 3/2 or 2/1/1/1… I don’t think anyone from Amherst has ever done it, although you theoretically could through the 12 college exchange. If you are seriously intent on an engineering degree though, I think it would make more sense to just go to a school that offers one…</p>
<p>Engineering is narrow and pre-professional. One doesn’t apply/come to Amherst expecting to study engineering. MIT and Stanford are the clear choices.</p>