<p>I am going to be applying for Georgetown in the fall and have already been looking at the application.
Are double majors allowed at Gtown? Would anyone strongly suggest against it?
I am definitly going to major in biochemistry and most likely go premed. But i also love Spanish, and have interest in majoring in Spanish as well. On the application it tells you to mark down your intended major and college. I know for sure i am going to apply to the main college, but how do i mark on the application that i want to do a double major? if it is even possible</p>
<p>I don't think you can indicate it on the application directly, but it is possible. You just can't do two majors in two different schools unless there's an exception; for example, if you're in the FLL, you can do business "coursework," etcetc. I think the options are just a single major, a major and a minor, double major, or a s double major and a minor.</p>
<p>As for the "Would anyone strongly suggest against it?" question, most people would say that double majoring seriously limits the breadth of types of classes you can take. In Gtown's case though, since there's a core curriculum, that can, for the most part, be avoided. Also if there are a lot of reqs that don't overlap, schedule planning can go wrong resulting in either dropping something, or taking extra time to finish it.</p>
<p>yeah, I'm in the college, and honestly, I'm kind of annoyed my Georgetown's restrictions on taking classes in other colleges. Right after telling us how they want us to pursue a broad array of paths, options and explorations, they tell us we can't take more than 4 courses in the MSB or NHS, which I wasn't too happy about since I think I might want to take more business classes. So you can double major/minor all you want, but you can't really do it across schools that well if you're in the college. The message I and others got seemed to be "pursue your passions. As long as those passions don't involve business or health."</p>
<p>Oh, and also, at least for the college, they seemed to encourage that if you are double majoring, you pick something more diverse from your current major. Art history and Economics? Great! Biochem and Spanish? Super! Sociology and psychology? or Politics and political economy? They might steer you away from that path.</p>
<p>do you know how i would mark a double major on my application?
or would i just declare one major and somehow change it to a double major if i get into and attend the school?</p>
<p>You mark double major when you declare your major, which is usually not until sophomore year.</p>
<p>sophmore 12:<br>
on the application it asks you to mark your intended major, so should i just put one thing and add it later if im accepted? also, how difficult do you think it is to double major at georgetown?</p>
<p>Yes, you just check one major on your application, just put the one you think you'll be most interested in.</p>
<p>As for double major difficulty, I'm not so sure about the NHS, but SFS would be difficult due to all the requirements (though a certificate, or minor, would be entirely feasible. In the MSB, I would recommend a double major, particularly with Finance or Accounting (a quant based major) and then something else, and in the COL, it's pretty common to see Gov and Theo, or Eng and Psych.</p>
<p>it's not possible to double major in NHS b/c the majors are too strict in required coursework/internships. You can minor in a major in another school (psychology and nursing/human science/i-health is pretty popular) or one of the 2-3 NHS minors (called certificates).</p>
<p>how challenging would it be to major in two areas in the main college? I was thinking about doing biochem and spanish while being premed...</p>
<p>Fulfilling all the biochem major requirements will also fulfill the pre-med requirements and the requirements needed for a pre-med recommendation committee letter, so no worries</p>
<p>But biochem (esp if you get invited to the honors program) is pretty tough, so spanish and biochem might be really tough </p>
<p>p.s. I'm taking biochem I, p-chem I, and MV calc next semester yikess</p>
<p>it might be better if you just minor in spanish (if you want biochem as your primary major). that'll give you time to do ECs, volunteer, work, or whatever you find interesting to help make your time more well rounded to get into med school. if you already have experience in spanish though, you might be able to pass out of basic/intro spanish which might make the major a little easier on courseload.</p>
<p>Would a 5 on the Span AP test place you out of intro spanish? Oh and would it be a lot of extra classes overall with the double major in biochem and span in the college?</p>
<p>you can check the ap policies on the georgetown college website--they change every year, so you need to stay on top of it.</p>
<p>biochem is the heaviest undergraduate major at georgetown in terms of required courses (26 courses and 71+ credits, the equivalent of 2 arts/social science majors and a minor). it's certainly possible to double major in biochem and spanish, but add in your gen ed. requirements and that's most of your college experience. would you consider minoring in spanish?</p>
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<p>It could, yes, but you still have to take a placement test to verify credit and place yourself. They use placement tests in conjunction with test scores. I did the same thing for German.</p>
<p>Jess, I would recommend minoring in Spanish instead of double majoring, because foreign language majors are required to study abroad, and that could potentially cut into fulfilling all of your Biochem requirements.</p>