<p>If I were to minor in geology, would I possible be admitted to graduate school and be able to pursue that field although it is not my major? Does anyone have some advice that has been in the same situation?</p>
<p>I wish someone would answer this. I had the same question about minoring in geology.
I’m majoring in civil engineering and was thinking about minoring in geology so i had the option of going into hydrogeology for my masters.</p>
<p>Geology is actually one of the simpler graduate schools to get into as a non-major, since so many people discover it late in their educational career. You may have to take a few more prereqs when you get there, but it’s certainly doable. I’m actually the only classically-trained geology major in my lab at the moment - the others are chemists, or climatologists. The minor will certainly help, though.</p>
<p>I know many paleontologists who majored in biology and/or anthropology, hydrologists who were originally chemists, and engineers who became paleoclimate scientists.</p>
<p>I think the key thing is a good background in science and/or math. A geo minor would also help, but the science background is probably more important.</p>