<p>I want to major in liberal arts, psychology, but now I'm considering minoring in business. What is the process of applying for a minor, and will having a minor take away free time or time in a fraternity?</p>
<p>Each school will have a different process. You need to check there. It will take away from free time in that you will probably want to concentrate on your grades in your minor more than some possible lighter weight courses you might have scheduled. </p>
<p>Most schools require you to have both a major and a minor in order to graduate, but the process for applying for a minor is different at every school, so you’d have to ask someone at your specific school about the process.</p>
<p>Minors will give you less room to take electives of your choice.</p>
<p>Also, what is your reason for wanting the minor? Intellectual fulfillment? Generally - unrelated minors won’t really help in getting a job, but if you really like business, by no means let that stop you!</p>
<p>How much would it affect being in a fraternity? Also I really like business, but psychology for me right now as a senior in high school sounds great. I would like to become a psychiatrist, but if i decide all the extra schooling and residency isn’t for me, I feel the minor in business could be pretty valuable with a psychology degree in the business world</p>
<p>If you want to become a psychiatrist, that is a medical degree (MD). You will need to take all the pre-med pre-requisites as well. If you want to become a pyschologist, you will have to get a PhD.</p>
<p>I’m aware of the degrees I need. The point of the business minor is if I decide Med school isn’t for me</p>
<p>“Most schools require you to have both a major and a minor in order to graduate”</p>
<p>Really? I’ve literally never heard of this at any school.</p>
<p>At our school, minors or cognates are required in college of arts and sciences. But varies by college - I don’t think engineering school requires one. And for physics, you earn a cognate in math by virtue of fulfilling physics degree math requirements. Some places will be harder to minor in business since you may have to meet different gen eds for business school. </p>
<p>@rebeccar my school and the schools my friends and sister go to require you to have a major and minor at least. You can replace a minor with a second major at my school, but you still can’t JUST do a major. As @scmom12 mentions it may be by department, I don’t know my friends are all math, comp sci, or liberal arts majors, so I can’t be sure about things like med school, physics, and engineering.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever heard of schools actually requiring a major and a minor to graduate. Minors are often encouraged, but they haven’t been explicitly required in my experience.</p>
<p>Are you applying to schools currently? If so, you generally don’t apply for a minor when you’re applying for admissions. You just apply for your major. Most students won’t declare a minor until sophomore year or possibly even junior year. The first couple of years involve a lot of Gen Ed courses that are meant to expose you to a range of fields. People often discover a field that they do really like within these Gen Ed courses, and end up completing a minor due to that interest. </p>
<p>To further my challenged notion of a minor being required; here’s my school’s page about graduation requirements:
<a href=“Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree - University at Albany-SUNY”>http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/requirements.html</a></p>
<p>In all the research I have done when I applied to college, I did not find that statement above to be true.
“Most schools require you to have both a major and a minor in order to graduate”
In fact, I didn’t find a single one. That’s definitely not the norm…</p>
<p>@lang92, no one is not saying that it isn’t true for your school or a few others, but for the VAST majority, there is no requirement to complete a minor. It’s just not common practice.</p>
<p>I wish everyone would stop challenging me. My statement is not the question here and so thus, please don’t comment just about it. Thanks. I’ve already mentioned my sources and why I say it so you can stop challenging me now. I simply stated an observation that many friends (though not on this site) have agreed with me on. I’m sorry if your schools don’t have such requirements, any I applied to and my friends/family go to do. You can leave it along now.</p>
<p>So would you say its a realistic goal that I have?</p>