What are some classes that are considered “harder” that I can take? I’m a psych major, and I’ve mostly taken social sciences and humanities, save for intro stat (which obviously isn’t too hard). Besides bio and chem, what are classes that I can taken that will show grad schools I can handle rigorous work? Are econ classes, financial accounting, and computer science classes considered harder? And are humanities and social sciences considered harder if you move into the 200 and 300 level? I just want to take a more rigorous course load in the future to prepare for grad school.
Graduate school in what? If it is psychology, then you are best off taking as many advanced psychology courses as you can (maybe even graduate courses if they are available and accessible) and getting as much research experience as possible. I you have to choose between doing research and extra courses, choose research.
@xraymancs sorry, yes it is psychology.
This is not the way to go about this - you don’t need to take classes outside of your field to prove that you can handle rigorous work. You do that by performing well in upper-level classes in your field and doing research with a professor who has interesting research. Don’t waste your time taking chemistry and biology unless you are genuinely interested in those areas or unless they are relevant to your research interests in some way. Otherwise, just take what you want to take, and make sure you take some upper-level psychology classes (you will probably be required to, anyway).
@juillet thank you.
Taking additional statistics beyond the intro course could be very helpful. Talk to some profs in psych and ask them for suggestions. In addition to regression - based courses, there might be some classes that teach a particular software package that might make you more attractive as a grad research assistant.
^Now this is true. Taking some higher-level statistics classes would be useful; so would learning R.
OP, do you have an idea of what kind of research (broadly speaking) you might be interested in doing?
@juillet yes, most likely clinical or counseling psych is what I plan on going into.
I agree on taking more statistics.
A psychology class that includes a neuroscience component would likely be helpful too.
But all in all, as juillet said, focus on getting consistently excellent grades in advanced psychology classes and working on research for a professor, perhaps designing your own project and presenting it somewhere.
@MYOS1634 thank you for all of that info, it is very helpful!