<p>i'm a current senior in high school,
and i didnt get the big two merit scholarships..</p>
<p>... and assuming i even get in..
{ 2310/2250 , 800 800 800 750 720 730, 3.86/4.72, not much extracurrics except hospital volunteering and independent research }</p>
<p>how hard would it be to double major in bio and spanish?
is this possible in 4 years? i will probably be taking classes in the summer every year (if that helps?)
i'm also pre-med..</p>
<p>my ap scores are:
bio 5
chem 5
spanish lang 4
calc ab 4
psych 5
art history 4
euro hist 5</p>
<p>currently taking [likely score]:
physics b [3/4]
span lit [4]
eng lit [5]
calc bc [4/5]
microecon [5]
compsci a [3/4]</p>
<p>would it be a smart idea to waive all these courses? or would i be at a disadvantage, going up against students who have already taken them?</p>
<p>thanks everyone!</p>
<p>You can definitely do it, but you will have no free time. Be aware of that. I’m assuming you want to be fluent in Spanish to communicate with patients, so why not just do a Spanish minor? You’ll have the luxury of not taking all the required lit classes.</p>
<p>If double majoring is the only thing you’ll accept, I’d suggest doing no more than 16 units a semester to keep you sane. It may take you 4 years + a summer semester, but a lot of people do summer school. I did it twice, since my program was a BFA and required 165+ units to graduate; I had a minor, so summer classes were the only option for me.</p>
<p>Your academic stats are really good, so hopefully they make up for the lack of EC’s – hard to say.</p>
<p>Anyway – yes, you can do it. Is it the smartest idea? Not really. But, if you’re OK with having little to no social life, then go for it!</p>
<p>hahahah good adviceee (:
is having spanish as “just” a minor still very difficult?
as i’ve said, i’m willing to take summer classes every year…</p>
<p>If you take summer classes every year you’ll definitely be OK. Or you can stick around campus for a 5th year, people do that as well. Anyways, you can do it, but you’re going to hate your life when you take the killer bio/premed classes (OChem, MoBio, etc).</p>
<p>just letting you know that you cannot waive any premed courses with AP credits. med schools won’t accept them. you must take general bio, general chem, and calculus at the college level.</p>
<p>It’s possible…I hope you know that if you’re doing pre-med, you don’t really need to be a bio major. In fact, med schools prefer applicants with a major outside of the typical biology (spoke to the dean of admissions at Albany Med in New York), so a Spanish major would be perfectly acceptable and maybe even preferable to bio.</p>
<p>I agree that if you want to do both bio and Spanish, you should do a major with a minor.</p>
<p>I agree - a student wanting to attend medical school does not have to major in biology. You could do a Spanish major and a Natural Science minor. The Natural Science minor is composed of all pre-med requirements. It has been said in a previous post - but I will say it again - you cannot get out of any pre-med requirements with APs. You must take them all.
One option with either a Spanish major or minor would be to do a semester abroad in Spain or South America can take some of the Spanish requirements there!</p>