<p>how hard/easy is it to double major and minor and still be able to graduate in 4 years?</p>
<p>depends if there are overlapping courses</p>
<p>most people do it, or at least many... </p>
<p>it isn't easy if you have no outside credits and disciplines that don't overlap. </p>
<p>however, the school is geared to help students study across disciplines - so my guess is that it is easier at Wash U. than other schools (at the Wash U level of academic expectation)</p>
<p>My daughter's going to try to do it. She's coming in with a lot of credit but one problem she's had is that they don't let you take a lot of classes as a Freshman. So she can't plunge into the advanced classes she needs for the majors even though she doesn't have required classes to take. They seem to expect all freshman to be taking lot's of core required classes and the majors only want you to take one or two classes per semester.</p>
<p>I think you'll find that your daughter will benefit from getting some of her core credits that are transferable at a local college over the summer... As to why Wash U has them take many different classes at first, it is because they want to expose the students to multiple disciplines before they go deep in the major. It is Wash U's understanding that 18 year-olds don't always know what they want to do with their life upon entry to a school, regardless of what they've written in their admissions and scholarship essays.</p>