<p>It is hard to double major? There were only four schools I could find that offer health psychology as a major. I didn't like any of them. Would it be asking for stress to double major in health science and psych? ..if I do that will I need a minor?</p>
<p>I’ve never even heard of health psychology as an undergrad degree. I took health psych last semester, and my professor got his BS in psychology and then MS in health psychology.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that either, but it sounds pretty interesting. Maybe do a psych major with the health science minor if you try it and feel overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Yeah there’s even health psychologists! It’s only offered for undergrad very few places. I was thinking about doing just psych as undergrad but I’m way more interested in the health sciences</p>
<p>Do not worry about studying “health psychology” as undergrad. What you need is a really good GPA because your studying of this field will occur at the grad level.</p>
<p>Are you planning on graduate work in counseling, social work, allied health, or psychology? This is important because LPC’s, LMSW’s, occupational therapists, and Psyc D’s all practice in HP but have very different paths to get to the education they need to practice. </p>
<p>Honestly i would do a single undergrad degree in something such as social work, counseling, or psyc because it does not matter what your degree is in, what matters is your GPA to get into the graduate programs. No ammount of double or tripple majors will help you at all because your requirements to practice will only be met at the graduate level, so the time to look at grad school is today. Make sure you have the grad school pre requisites completed for both what you want to do and if what you want to do is competitive a fall back option.</p>
<p>Ask yourself how can you best get into grad school (are you aware of the high application rate to PsycD programs… it is quite a bit tougher to get into than Med or Law School) If for some reason you are not accepted to any PsycD program (over 80% of students applying for PsycD programs are not accepted anywhere) What is your fallback plan? You could get your LPC in counseling or your LMSW in social work and be licensed to do the exact same thing with only a Masters degree (although your pay will suffer by 20% or so) </p>
<p>Whatever your decision you can honestly major in anything at all (for instance i have a good friend that majored in Philosophy and took General Psyc, Statistics, Developmental Psyc, and Cognitive Psyc so that he would have the pre requisites for both an LPC in counseling or a PsycD. Despite a high GPA and respectable GRE he did not make it into any PsycD programs, so he was able to go LPC without having to take any prereqs after he had graduated with his bachelors.</p>
<p>Thank you so much. Do you think I’m better off focussing on psychology as an undergrad? Would I go wrong if I chose health science instead with focus on health assessment and promotion, and a minor in human science (studies anthropology, psychology and biology). I also have a bunch of credits from dual enrollment this year so I might be able to double minor in sociology. My school doesn’t offer psychology as a minor.</p>
<p>Is there a way to search for grad schools based upon their programs? So then I can see if I’ll be taking the right prerequisites. I know you can find colleges for undergrad by major on college board. Is there a site like that for grad schools?</p>
<p>I am double majoring in Economics and Political Science. If these courses are of equal interest to you then it is definately not hard to double major. Since I personally myself plan to graduate within four years I may have to only major in Economics and minor in Political Science. I think ones outlook of double majoring may become more visible as they go into their upperclassmen years.</p>