Double Major Questions

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>I applied to CIT and SCS regular decision</p>

<p>I got into CIT for ECE and rejected from SCS </p>

<p>I'm going to enroll into CIT for ECE, but my original intention was to double major with ECE (CIT) and Computer Science (SCS)</p>

<p>I didn't apply to Tepper, i think i would have been admitted if i did though</p>

<p>Considering that even as an engineer i was originally planning to pursue business down the road sometime (get my MBA etc) and move into management/business etc...</p>

<p>I was wondering whether i could double major with Tepper for Econ.</p>

<p>So how do i go about double majoring ECE (CIT), and Econ. (Tepper) im not sure how the whole double major process works</p>

<p>EDIT: 50 posts! yay finally a junior member ;D</p>

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<p>Declare it junior year. Don't worry about it yet you got 3 years until you make your official decision.</p>

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<p>hehe you make it sound so easy, bear with me here, i have like no idea how this whole process works...</p>

<p>so for 3 years i could be taking courses following the track that i want to follow and i just have to make it official in my junior year?</p>

<p>college majors are a mystery to me, sorry if i sound stupid...i just dont want to make any mistakes =/</p>

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<p>Go to Tepper's website, I think it is tepper.business.cmu.edu and visit Undergrad econ. Click on additional major. Check out the requirements. Take as many of those (your advisor once you get here wiill help you) and then junior year you fill out the application for a double major and you are done. You have to have a 2.0 or so to do a double major.</p>

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<p>First semester of freshman year as an ECE major, you would probably take Intro to ECE, a programming class (which one depends on credit), a humanities class, the freshman seminar, and a calculus class. Second semester, you would take a different intro to engineering class, more calculus, physics 1 for engineers, a humanties class, and possibly another class (I helped some people make schedules for their first year in ECE.) With your "extra" classes second semester and beyond, you can take courses towards a CS major, such as discrete math (21-127, 15-251) and higher level programming (15-211). There are some business-engineering-y courses offered; if you look through the course catalog you can see some.</p>