<p>After finshing the GIR's and HASSes,
you only need the following classes to get a Course 9 major? given that you satisfy the 180 credits.
9.00
9.01
9.07
six subjects from three areas: cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroscience.
2 labs
2 restrictive electives</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>What major has the least course requirements?</p>
<p>It doesn’t quite work like that. 9.00, for example, can count towards one of your HASS classes, giving you extra elective space (you’ll have to take the same amount of classes, but more of it will be completely your choice).</p>
<p>As someone who was worried about switching from 7 to 6 because of elective room, my advice is don’t worry about it too much. I was worried I’d feel trapped not having enough elective credit - turned out I only felt trapped because I was in the wrong major :P</p>
<p>But to answer your question, engineering majors tend to have the least free space. You can check out the catalog ([MIT</a> Course Catalog](<a href=“Welcome! < MIT”>Welcome! < MIT)) to find what major has the most elective room, though. (Some majors have options to take a “flexible” version of the major and concentrate in something else. Things that come to mind at 8B, 10C, 2A, 1…)</p>
<p>How do you check whether a major has many/few free space?</p>
<p>You’re looking for the number associated with “unrestricted electives”.</p>
<p>oh!! i get it now.
So, we have the
-17 GIRs (8 Hass, 6 science core, 2 REST, 1 Lab)
and the 180 credits beyond GIR’s
-The Restricted Electives (which for Course 7 is 66 credit units, classes you are supposed to take within the Biology Department).
<p>Is this the whole thing?</p>
<p>I think you’ve got it. You have your GIRs and beyond-GIRs. Your beyond-GIRs will be composed of the remaining in-major classes and unrestricted electives :D</p>
<p>great! now another question. :)</p>
<p>how often do schedule conflicts happen?</p>
<p>I feel as though that’s a question that can’t very well be answered unless you’re looking at purely one major.</p>
<p>I think, in your freshman year at least, scheduling conflicts don’t happen very often because there are multiple sections of many classes. Major classes such as GIRs tend to be at different times. </p>
<p>Looking beyond freshman year, I can’t imagine that requirements within a major would conflict often.</p>
<p>In course 9, schedule conflicts do happen – not because classes actually are conflicting temporally with each other, but because many courses are only offered one semester every other year. So unless your interests are very wide-ranging and you don’t mind taking any of a number of classes, it can be tough not to have really lopsided semesters, where you’re taking 3 course 9 classes one semester and none the next, or something.</p>
<p>about double majoring,</p>
<p>if you want to double major in general, do you insanely have to take a lot of classes each semester?</p>
<p>That depends highly on what you want to double in, and to some degree on what credit you come in with.</p>
<p>how about having credit for only 18.01? like doubling 7 and 9 for instance.</p>
<p>Totally doable, course 9 in my opinion is one of the easiest majors to double in since it’s not very heavy requirement-wise. That was a factor in my decision to choose 9 since I wanted to explore a lot of other classes, which I’ve gotten to do so far, and it’s been awesome :D</p>
<p>If you come in with only credit for 18.01, you’ll need to take 35.5 classes to double in 9 and 7. That’s assuming that you don’t overlap any 9/7 classes, which you could if you wanted, and assuming that you get a degree in 7 rather than 7A; 7A doesn’t require the 24-unit project lab.</p>
<p>34.5 classes would be two semesters of five classes and another semester of 4.5 classes.</p>
<p>I was a 9/7A double. :)</p>
<p>^ Of course, back in Mollie’s day, things were more hardcore. You had to do 270 units beyond GIRs to double major, even if you could do the requirements in less :D</p>
<p>Yeah, I ended up with 37.25 classes. :)</p>
<p>Do you mind explaning the 24 credit project? or the difference between 7 and 7A and how it will appear on the transcripts? in addition, feel free to add on your thoughts and comments on the differences.</p>
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<p>is that including GIR’s, Electives and everything to graduate?</p>
<p>“Bachelor of Science in Biology” <---- 7
“Bachelor of Science as Recommended by the Department of Biology” <– 7A
Not an important difference 
The 30-unit lab is replaced with another 12-unit lab and extra elective space. Whether you want to do 7 or 7A depends on what you want to do overall (or if you’ll get more lab experience elsewhere).</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t understand the significance of the diploma wording between 7 and 7A at all.</p>
<p>But dang it, I want a REAL BS in Biology! Not “recommended” by the department! <- this is my biggest driving factor to do project lab, hahaha the last frontier before I’m done with course 7! woo</p>