<p>The MIT website says that students going for a double major must take 2 CI-M classes for EACH major. My question is this: do you also have to take all the classes normally required by that major(The PLUS Dept Requirements)?</p>
<p>You have to take all of the classes required for each major as though you were only completing that major. But if some of the required courses overlap, you can count them toward both degrees.</p>
<p>This is actually significantly easier than it used to be (get off my lawn, etc.), when you had to take the requirements for both degrees, plus 270 units outside the GIRs. But you also used to graduate with two physical degrees, which was baller.</p>
<p>According to this, [MIT</a> Course Catalog: Course 7](<a href=“Welcome! < MIT”>Welcome! < MIT) except courses already in the GIR, a Biology major requires 5 courses(counting the Lab as a GIR). So if I do a 2nd major with a similar number, I have to take 5 extra courses?</p>
<p>Now you don’t graduate with 2 physical degrees? What do you get then?</p>
<p>Also, I read that “Students may not pursue a second major in the same area as their primary major.” Does this mean that I can’t major in, say, both Biology and Chemistry? If so, why was one person cited here [Double</a> Majors at MIT: Some Students Don’t Settle for a Single Degree - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N18/double_majors.18f.html]Double”>http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N18/double_majors.18f.html) able to major in Math and Physics?</p>
<p>Math and Physics nor Biology and Chemistry aren’t the same fields 
If you are biology major, you can’t double major biology or something very close to biology.</p>
<p>Both degrees are written on the same diploma, as most univerisities do now.
In past, they used to give two different diplomas.</p>
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No, it just means you can’t double in, for example, two tracks of the same department, or a department plus the interdisciplinary-and-same-as-the-first department. Everything else is fair game.</p>
<p>Examples of what is not okay:
Biology (7) and Computer Science and Biology (6-7)
EE (6-1) and CS (6-3)
CS (6-3) and Math with CS (18C)</p>
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I think I ended up having to take six or seven extra classes for a double in biology and brain and cognitive sciences. And I actually did 7A, which doesn’t require taking project lab. </p>
<p>It’s really easier to map out the exact list of courses you need to take, because some (e.g. 5.12, 5.60, 5.07) will count for both the biology and chemistry degrees.</p>