Double Major Question?

[olleocf]

<p>yosup, check this link: [url=<a href=“Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan”>CS-LSA vs CS-Eng | Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan]EECS[/url</a>]</p>

<p>“The concentration/program requirements are almost exactly the same for both [LSA or CoE] programs.”</p>

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You have 12 credits of Flexible electives, and 16 credits of electives that could all go towards pre-med, but that would only take care of the rest of chem, bio, and bio chem. You still have to fit in English somehow, and U of M won’t let you take more than 18 credits without paying extra, right?

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<p>Question: are these just electives, or “technical” electives? (And, …, is this a dumb question? Sorry, the U.S. educational system still confuses me. Int’l student here.) I checked the [LSA] Bulletin and the technical electives for CS do not overlap with the Pre-Med requisites at all -except maybe they could qualify as the 6 non-science courses, which are a requisite anyway. (?) (Or maybe I’m just not getting this correctly.)</p>

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Yosup, just be prepared to answer interview questions on why you also wanted to do Pre-med and how it can help out a company. I was thinking about double majoring in AeroE and accidently let it slip during an interview with Microsoft. Long story short, the interviewer would not get off the topic of how my AeroE degree could help out Microsoft and I’m actually a CSE major.

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<p>This would be the case if his main focus wouldn’t be Pre-Med but CS, I’m assuming. I mean, from what I read, yosup’s main focus is Pre-Med; CS would be his “Plan B.”</p>

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<p>Anyway. After all of this, I’m reconsidering the idea of studying CS and Pre-Med. I guess I still have a lot to discuss with my counselor, but it just seems really hard right now. And well, there are other majors I’m interested in aside CS.</p>

[QwertyKey]

<p>^The 15 (he said 16… I suppose you could take 100 if you wanted to, but 15 is for the 128 credit plan) free electives can be used towards anything. Of the 12 flexible, all of them can be used for pre-med (Orgo I, II, and P-Chem), none of the technical electives can be used towards pre-med. This is for Engineering. If it is different for LSA, I don’t know, but I don’t think it is.</p>

<p>Olleocf, if you still would like to do something similar to CS and pre-med, check out Informatics instead of CS. You take a lot of CS classes but it is a little more flexible. It may work out better for you. I believe you get access to the Engineering recruitment with Informatics as well (it shows Informatics as one of the degrees on HireMe).</p>

<p><a href=“Major in Informatics | U-M LSA Department of Statistics”>Major in Informatics | U-M LSA Department of Statistics; - Especially the Life Sciences Informatics might work well with pre-med.</p>

[olleocf]

<p>^Qwerty, thanks for the explanation! </p>

<p>Thanks for your suggestion as well. I find Life Science Informatics even more interesting than Computer Science; I mean, it makes more sense to me. I think it will definitely work well with pre-med.</p>