<p>I am incoming freshman this autumn and I was wondering how difficult would it be to double major in Chemical engineering and Biochemistry? Or is this even allowed since they are in two different colleges?</p>
<p>Man all I hear is how those two are really elite majors. My guess is unbelievably hard.</p>
<p>Seems like there might be some overlap? Should be doable if you push yourself</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies! I figured that it would be difficult, but now I know that it’s not impossible :D</p>
<p>Definitely possible, just keep on your toes for classes and grades (GPA can be a deciding factor between two highly competitive applicants) while you’re still a premajor.</p>
<p>Getting degrees in two different colleges will be called double degreeing, and you’ll automatically have 5 years to complete it instead of 4, because of different requirements (double major if it’s the same college) from different colleges.</p>
<p>possible (definitely more than 4 years if you dont have substantial amount of college credits beforehand0 but once you in the chemical engineering department, they will force you to graduate within 2 years (so lets say you got in during winter 2011 (typically third quarter of your sophomore year) then you will have to graduate during spring 2013), unless you are also majoring in another chemical engineering based major, bioresource science and engineering, so you should really spend time planning your schedule and talking to the advisers to make the best decisions.</p>
<p>and when i said college credits, i was referring to physics, maths, chemistry that are part of the prerequisites of both of the majors</p>
<p>There is absolutely no possible career path where this combination of bachelor degrees would be at all advantageous. So many people today want to double major for some reason, but I personally dont see why.</p>
<p>There are very few career paths where a double major is even advisable. One I can think of off of the top of my head is Patent Lawyer. The purpose of double majoring for the future patent lawyer is to acquire the needed science credits to sit for the patent bar, yet completing a relatively high GPA major first. </p>
<p>In this instance one would major in Basket Weaving or whatever and complete their core courses and take only the most basic jock science classes needed to get their Basket Weaving bachelors that would still count for a science major. </p>
<p>Then they would graduate with their Basket Weaving and immediately apply to LSAC gaming the law school admissions process as only the first undergrad degree counts toward law school admissions… Then they continue their major in the hard sciences without having to worry about GPA for law school. Once done they go to law school and upon graduation sit for both the bar and the patent bar.</p>
<p>There are some other situations like this, but usually double majors are a way to game grad and professional schools for admissions by completing an easy and high GPA initial degree and then applying to Grad school, deferring your admission and working on a second bachelors that traditionally is harder or low GPA .</p>