<p>Yes, it's way too much. There is no way in hell you could do 24 credits/semester.</p>
<p>If they were doing it, we wouldn't see them. They'd be too busy studying.</p>
<p>And a word of advice: don't get a dual-degree. No one will care. You are either going to end up working in one field or the other (or maybe something completely different). You'll spend an extra year at Cornell to get a second bachelors degree when you could have helped yourself much, much more by getting a Masters in whatever field you want. This is seriously how it will work: you'll get both degrees and think you've put yourself at some sort of advantage. Instead, employers/grad schools in subject #1 will not give two ****s about your other degree and would actually be more likely to question your interest in/"allegiance" to whatever it is they'd be hiring you for. You'll be seen as someone without direction who would be more likely to quit because you lose interest (seeing that you already spent an extra $100k on a second bachelors degree). OK, maybe that's an exaggeration; but at the very least, no one will care in either field about your degree in the other.</p>
<p>What two degrees do you want?</p>