<p>Hello! So I know there are some posts on here about this already, but it seems the answers I keep seeing and getting from people are pretty much the same. What I'm asking is simply for suggestions and which school of my list are the best for double majoring. I keep hearing to not double major and rather minor in music. Let me explain why not... I have spent most of my life in music training, including aural and written training, I am taking AP Music Theory currently, I take voice lessons, I play the piano, and I can hear melodies I would very much like to write down. In the case of science... I have always loved science and took AP Biology my junior year. It is something that comes easy to me and I like it. I have always strived to be a physician, so I want to take pre-med. Sorry, just thought I should explain why.. anyways, here's my list of schools and thank you in advance for you comments! =]</p>
<p>University of San Diego
Loyola Marymount University
Santa Clara University
Seattle University
Gonzaga University
College of the Holy Cross
Boston College
Creighton University</p>
<p>You can always major in music and just take the pre-req courses for pre-med on the side. Med schools don’t care too much about what you major in and music classes would probably satisfy you more and give you a higher GPA anyway. </p>
<p>As far as those specific schools are concerned, the only advice I can give you is that if you’re seriously considering double-majoring you should check the core and major requirements for each college. I’m considering a double major as well and ended up making a spreadsheet for all of this info; it really helped me to gauge what i could and could not do at specific schools.</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon for premeds to major in music at a college of arts and sciences, where music is structure like any other liberal-arts major. That is, you take some prerequisite courses in your freshman and sophomore year, e.g. in music theory, and then spend about half of your time in your junior and senior year taking classes in your major. This is easy to combine with the premed requirements–take chemistry and calculus in your freshman year, orgo and bio in your sophomore year, and physics in your junior year. Some schools, e.g. Cornell University, offer two different music majors, one for future music professionals and another for those who want to major in music but plan to do something else after graduation.</p>
<p>What would be difficult, or impossible, would be to fulfil the premed requirements while attending a conservatory like Julliard or Curtis. These schools do have a few liberal arts requirements but are basically all music, all the time, with very heavy practice requirements. It might be possible to work out something at Peabody, which is affiliated with Johns Hopkins, but it would require a ton of dedication.</p>
<p>All the schools on your list are the arts-and-sciences variety, so you’re good. Check out the music departments, because some offer more in the way of performance, some more in the way of history/theory/composition; some are more exclusively oriented to Western classical music while others are more eclectic, etc.</p>
<p>None of the schools you detail are music powerhouses, and are not typically on a shortlist for those seeking a professional performance track. They can work for someone with a serious interest in maintaining or further developing skills. </p>