<p>Hello everybody, I was wondering what people think of double-majoring at MIT in fields that do not necessarily match up well.</p>
<p>Specifically, i wanted to know what you think of Political Science and Aerospace engineering. I find both to be a passion of mine. Aero more so than PolSci, but both passions nonetheless. I was considering schools such as Syracuse and BU that kind of facilitate, or at least claim to facilitate students seeking non-conventional double majors, but heard nothing about it at MIT. Obviously, I would not pass up on MIT because this double major is not feasible. However, I was wondering what other people thought.</p>
<p>Food for thought: I never did a recruitment process so college coaches never saw me, but I've been told by "experts" I'd walk on the baseball team at MIT. Despite having played for 14 years, im willing to not tryout if that's what this double major takes.</p>
<p>There’s no reason such combinations can’t be done but such combinations aren’t particularly common because the heavy requirements for Aero/Astro and the lack of overlap between majors would require 1) starting with lots of credit or 2) taking 5+ classes per semester or 3) taking 5 years to graduate or 4) some combination of the above. However, at the very least you would to major in Aero/Astro and take a bunch of political science classes.</p>
<p>You will also likely find that your passions change as new opportunities/experiences/classes/professors come into your life, so go in open minded. Of course it is important to know if you can do such a thing before going in, but recognize it may not be what happens :-)</p>
<p>Hi I’m looking at double majoring in 6-7 and then 15. Is this possible with a normal work load or will the work load be very heavy?</p>
<p>Usually, the harder doubles are combining engineering majors. A course 17 double, in fact, can be particularly easy because you can make a most of your HASS requirement (I think typically 6 of the 8 required subjects) part of your second major.</p>
<p>@Dangitdang That shouldn’t be too difficult of a combination. You might need a small amount of AP credit or to take 5 classes for a couple of semesters but nothing too bad.</p>
<p>@PiperXP I think they changed it so you can now only count 3 classes from a HASS major towards the HASS requirement. Of course you could take all the classes for the major but not actually complete the major and count up to 6 (I don’t think any HASS arts or humanities count towards the political science major but I could be wrong about that).</p>