<p>how many people double-major at FU? is it a challenge to fit the required courses into a schedule? </p>
<p>im thinking engineering physics + psychology (pre-med). as of now, i have one elective class completed b/c of my AP and am awaiting my chem and u.s. gov/pol AP scores.</p>
<p>i think it might be pretty difficult to pull those particular majors off due to the amount of science you will have to do. If i'm not mistaken, psychology is one of the larger majors with respect to requirements. if you can't place out of two or three courses with your ap credits, then i would say your going to be in for a tough four years. you might have to take six classes during some semesters, and i don't exactly know how practical that is since science classes are very time consuming and demanding.<br>
go on to [url=<a href="http://www.fordham.edu%5DFORDHAM.EDU%5B/url">http://www.fordham.edu]FORDHAM.EDU[/url</a>] look for departments under the academics tab. and find psych and engineering phys. look at the requirements and see if you can fit them into four years. since you are looking to be a science major, then you are looking at about 5 classes per semester. oh, and don't forget to include the all important core in you calculations.</p>
<p>hey i'm interested in double majoring too! biotech & business. in a way, it's like physics & psych.</p>
<p>but people say it's pretty hard, esp. if the courses are different.. the course requirements make it difficult. </p>
<p>check and see if the school has any special courses. i know Upenn has management & technology course, for example.</p>
<p>Fordham is one of those schools where double majoring is very difficult, esp if one of your majors is in the sciences. My son looked at colleges, Brown or Brandeis for instance, where a triple major was very plausible, but this would not be the case with Fordham.</p>
<p>Fordham has a significant Core requirement for the first 2yrs which limits concentrating in 1 particular dept during that time. There is also a foreign language requirement for all student - 4 semesters for non-science and 2 semesters for science majors, where the AP exam at best can only get you out of the 2 semester requirement (possibly if you score very well), but not the 4 semester requirement - this you would need to be very proficient in that language and test out of it through a departmental exam.</p>
<p>Also, Fordham (College) limits how many courses you can apply to different majors at the same. Most majors have a 8-12 course requirement (without counting prerequesite/corequisite courses that are from other depts.) and count very few Core courses towards the major. Usually the science majors will be in the 8-10 course requirement, and the liberal art ones would be 10-12.</p>
<p>Lastly, never forget that the departments are listing the Minimum number of courses for their major. If you're going on to a PhD program, you really want to go beyond this minimum and also try to do some research in that field during your undergrad years. Grad. programs will be more interested in a greater depth of knowledge in your primary field. Now, if your plans are to enter the work force after undergrad, that's a whole different story....</p>
<p>I do not suggest that you double major because you are Pre-Med. Pre-Med is very challenging and demanding I am sure you know of that. You also might want to volunteer at a hospital because it looks good in the medical school app. If however you do want to double major than go for it, you must first speak with your counselor at Fordham to see if you can double major in phys and psyc since they both are quite different. Good Luck! I am pre-med as well!</p>
<p>the only way you can double while doing pre med is if you can place out of a few courses, like calc for example, and major in chem and some other smaller major like econ, philo, or poli sci. the chem major is significantly shorter than the bio, so you'll have more room to fit that second major.
Oh, and try to enroll into a fifth class your first semester... though that might be a little difficult to do.</p>