<p>Good evening! :D</p>
<p>I'm wondering what are my options if I'm interested in the following:</p>
<p>Double Major: Engineering and Accounting
Minors: Leadership and Business</p>
<p>Questions:
-Is this a possible workload to graduate in 4 years? </p>
<p>-Considering my interests, what are possible alternatives?</p>
<p>-What are your experiences with any of those subjects?</p>
<p>*Posting in the business thread as well for different perspectives.</p>
<p>Not possible to graduate in 4 years. Maybe not even in 5.</p>
<p>Thanks I appreciate your reply! :D</p>
<p>Do you mind giving me a bit of a background? Suggestions? What about taking classes in the summer?
I am a hard worker… but physics is certainly not my strong point. I’m fascinated by engineering but I know I’ll have to work very hard. xD I’m hoping Accounting could be my back-up, become a CPA.</p>
<p>It could be said that Accounting is just as hard as becoming an engineer. Especially on the CPA level. The time commitment required for both majors is very extensive. CPA Track alone is usually takes 5 years. Its not uncommon for engineering to take more than 4 years. Not sure why accounting would be a back up career. Engineering is a very solid career path in its self</p>
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Not likely, but I suppose there are people who could pull it off. I think 6-7 years would be typical for most people trying this. There just is not enough flexibility in those programs to allow for much overlap, and that means doing most of it independently. Usually when people do double majors, it is in fields that closely overlap.</p>
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Starting in one or the other, then (if it does not work out for any reason) switching. Even if you graduate, it is possible (with some preparation) to switch between fields when going for a masters degree, so you can still reverse your decision even if you complete the bachelors.</p>
<p>I would recommend starting with engineering, and perhaps doing a business minor. If you dislike engineering, a few well-chosen business courses would ease your transition.</p>
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Engineering - extensive, Accounting - by association only. I like engineering. Go figure.</p>
<p>youknowme123> Thank you for your response! What I meant by backup is if I couldn’t handle the physics… I don’t have exactly an aptitude for it. :/</p>
<p>cosmicfish> Thank you for your advice! 
Must one have an aptitude for physics to become a successful engineer? How far can one go with hard work?</p>
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You definitely need one or the other. You can get by with an intuitive idea of what is going on in most cases, as software packages are available to actually crunch the numbers. Failing that, hard work in the form of crunching the numbers yourself and seeing what comes out can get you pretty far too, and may lead to the intuitive understanding anyway. Regardless, I would say hard work is generally more important than aptitude for physics.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Could you by any chance, explain to me the difference between computer engineering and computer science, possibly in terms of workload, kind of classes? :D</p>
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<p>False. It’s completely doable at my school, especially if you come in with AP/IB credit for some classes.
I know a ton of Engineering/Business double majors who are all on track for 4 years.</p>
<p>But yeah, it’s school by school.</p>
<p>Leadership and business are a waste. An accounting minor is good. An accounting major is overkill, considering you will forget 99% of it unless you want to be an accountant. </p>
<p>Your best bet is get an engineering degree with high gpa > 3.5, then accumulate work experience while you’re in school and over summers. If you’re determined, get one or two minors you find interesting.</p>
<p>Johnson181> Thanks for your input! So far I have passed 7/10 AP exams, avg. score of 3 (failed AP Physics C- E/M, World History, Chem) and I will be taking 7 exams at the end of this year. If you don’t mind, what school are you attending?</p>
<p>Duecey> Why is leadership a waste? And thank you for replying! Hmm… high GPA… I have a 3.9 UW… I wonder how college classes are compared to AP?</p>
<p>I’m also currently looking at UF and UCF (trying to use whatever’s left of bright futures) as colleges I might be attending.</p>
<p>I’m at WashU - WashU is notorious for having students that double major. In the engineering school, it’s supposedly somewhere around 60%, with a good chunk of those being doubled with business of some sort. To be fair, a lot of those engineers are systems engineers, who do in fact have some overlap (ie operations research - management science), but there are outliers. </p>
<p>I myself am a double major, but they’re both in engineering.</p>
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Is there a reason you are taking all these? I never took an AP exam unless I was reasonably confident I would get at least a 4, and considered the one 3 I got to be a failure. Not that 3 is a bad score, but at my college a 3 only got you credit on a handful of the tests, most required 4’s or 5’s, and since my reason for taking the test was to get the college credit, a 3 was a “high fail”!</p>
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Many people think this (and they are certainly at least close) because those courses are usually so general that they actually teach very little useful information, and (most importantly) because you are taking them at the wrong point in your career. As a new hire, you are going to have very few chances to demonstrate leadership your first few years, and after that you will have much more useful and timely options available to you, plus the experience that will better help you apply them.</p>
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Tougher. I took AP BC Calc and got a 5, which gave me credit towards Calc I and II at my school. I decided to take Calc II anyway and was astonished at the greater depth and breadth of the course. I am glad I took it, because I think taking the AP credits there would have really hurt me going forward.</p>
<p>One of the biggest problems of finishing a program on time is that your school might not offer the classes you need at the times you want. </p>
<p>My case is pretty bad. I’m on track to finish all but 3 classes by Spring or Summer 2012. The senior design project class, unfortunately, is separated into 3 classes that have to be sequentially taken and the 1st class is only offered in the Fall. I just found this out only weeks ago. If that wasn’t the case, I could finish on time…</p>
<p>And then there is the problem with schools not have funding and having problems with being able to provide enough classes on time. Who knows, you might need to a particular prerequisite class the next quarter so you can take the other following class 2 quarters from now…but then you find out the department changes their mind and decides not to offer the class next quarter. So then, you will be pushed back one quarter …or more. Who knows what will happen.</p>
<p>cosmicfish> Yeah, I never passed in quality. 
This is partly why I’m staying in-state/public. My 3’s would get me something there. I’m taking so many partly because I’m part of an AP program at my school and also because I was interested in taking those courses over others. I’m always getting into this kind of situation since I like to push myself… testing my limits… crazy I know. xD Thanks for your explanations, good to know!</p>
<p>Sy5stemShock> Very good point! I’ll be sure to remember that.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s true. A whole lot of students can relate to this. Many are being held back at least 1 quarter because, this past Summer, the worst Summer ever, offered far, FAR less courses than any other Summer before that (to the best of my knowledge).</p>