<p>Hey everyone,
For the last several years I've been trying to figure out if I want to become a musician or a doctor. But for the past month or two, I think I've realized that I want a med degree to be my ultimate goal. That being said, I do NOT want to ever give up music and definitely want to do something with it in college.
Indiana University has caught my interest as of late due to its strong music program and its human biology major. Human bio seems incredibly interesting to me, and fits perfectly with my medical aspirations. Ideally, I would double major, but I'm no fool and am aware that that will be incredibly hard to do...majoring in music itself is time consuming enough on its own... I was wondering to what extent I would be overloaded (particularly at IU). (To generalize this a bit more, what is the work load of a music and bio major at most state universities?) I know if I work hard enough it'd be possible, but would I have time to eat or socialize or sleep?
I know minoring in music is always an option, but doesn't minoring close most music scholarship opportunities? I'm relying on scholarships if I want to go out of state, and although I'm a very strong academic student I'm not sure I'd be selected to get the wells scholarship (IU's full ride) due to all the competition.
So long story short, are there any IU (or any university) music-science double majors out there willing to share their experience? Thanks for the help! </p>
<p>This is always the first thing we music parents recommend to describe the differences between a double degree, double major, or minor in music - <a href=“http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html”>http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html</a>. </p>
<p>Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University is a respected and very competitive music school and will require an audition for a music degree. I know nothing about the types of classes one can take at Indiana as a non-performance degree student in the College of Arts and Sciences. However, it is possible to get a B.S.O.F degree from Jacobs which allows one to pursue courses which could be sufficient for applying to medical school, without actually getting a second degree. I don’t see that they offer music as a minor.</p>
<p>From the website:
B.S.O.F. The Bachelor of Science in Music and an Outside Field is designed to provide students an opportunity to study music as a major and also another field at nearly the level of a major (27 credit hours). The field in music can be instrumental or vocal performance, composition, jazz studies, or ballet. The outside field can be in any other degree-granting area of the university; some of the most common choices are languages, theater, business, telecommunications, speech, and mathematics.</p>
<p>I recommend you wander over to the music major forum - there are a number of past threads about wanting to continue with music while preparing for med school.</p>