<p>How easy/common is it for a Duke undergrad to double major? Is it easy (I know it's possible) to double major across Trinity and Pratt? I've heard Duke is very good about allowing its undergrads to take a variety of courses which puts Duke at the top of my list. I'm thinking about doing Mechanical Engineering, Economics, and taking a lot of foreign language.
Thanks</p>
<p>Good for you! Duke is very good about letting someone double major in any two subjects possible. Because anyone can cross-enroll in classes between Trinity and Pratt, its not really a problem (although you might have to be enrolled in Pratt in the first place). If you do a double major in both Trinity and Pratt, you don't even have to fulfill those crazy reqs that Trinity people have like "Ethical Inquiry," you just need to take 10 Econ classes on top of your Engineering workload because all the other departmental reqs for Econ are already fulfilled by existing Pratt reqs... and 3 of the Econ classes even fulfill Pratt reqs. This is why EGR + Econ is one of the most popular double majors (in addition to EGR + Math, Science, Pubpol), and is what I'm doing too but I'm BME + Econ. With the AP credits that I had, I only need to overload one semester.</p>
<p>If you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, know that although it is fairly popular, it is by no means easy. First of all, you probably would not be able to take foreign language because the Pratt curriculum and Econ would eat up all of your time; you may have time for one... maybe two language classes. I would say the ease of double majoring depends on how hard you're willing to work and how many classes (prereqs mostly) you can skip out of using AP, college credit, or placement testing. If you do choose this path, know that any of the Pratt deans and advisors are very knowledgable about this because they have so much experience with it and will back you all the way.</p>
<p>it really depends on the two majors, how many credits you come in with, how smart you are, etc.</p>
<p>i would say its very common - most of my friends have a major and a minor or two majors.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Does planning to take five years to graduate help manage the workload? Any success (or failure) stories of people choosing to do this?</p>
<p>nobody takes 5 years. doubling in 4 years is fine. who wants to spend an extra 45k?</p>
<p>I am also a double major in bme/econ ... I think lately that has become a very popular track.. and it is very easy to plan out ur class load when you doing a pratt/trinty double major just because like Hiwei said, you don' t have to worry about the t-reqs. Like for econ, you just have to follow the worksheet they have online and take those classes and you are set.</p>
<p>oh and if you r doing a pratt/trinty double major... go see Dean Simmons... she pretty much planned out my schedule the first time I met her in freshman year (although she did make a few minor errors). Although, I did make a few tweaks to it to take some econ classes I am interested in, she gives you a very good overlook of your four years that you can plan around. </p>
<p>Plus, as an extra bonus if you are bme/econ double major... you can still study abroad in England, if that's your cup of tea.</p>
<p>Double majoring in Pratt is quite doable but you should try to have quite a few AP credits coming in. (and being in Pratt you can use almost all of them, yeh!) I would like to reiterate what was said before about foreign language. If you are double majoring in Pratt then you probably won't have time to tack on a lot of foreign language stuff. (a couple of classes maybe but that might even be stretching it if you don't want to overload too many times)</p>