<p>Hey guys! I would really like to be a plastic surgeon and I was thinking I could do a double major in French and Linguistics, but also fulfill pre med requirements while doing so. Is it possible? If I do such a thing will I graduate in time?(4 years)</p>
<p>I've checked the university I might want to go to and it says a linguistic major is 36 credit hours, while a French major is 30 hours. But don't you have to have 120 credit hours to graduate? I do not understand.</p>
<p>Also I am rather confident I can score at least a 4 on the AP French exam therefore it will help me receive credit for a handful of beginning french classes in college. </p>
<p>Any input will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!</p>
<p>** Wait until you get your college step underway before anymore talk about careers, especially something s explicit as plastic surgeon.</p>
<p>**graduating within 4 years is totally dependent on the school you attend and your ability to stay focused.</p>
<p>**Students need ~120 hours to graduate, of which 30-36 of those hours include major-specific courses. Then there’s the distribtion requirements and electives. (One course is usually 3 credit hours)</p>
<p>**Credit for AP classes depends again on your UG Often schools may give credits for an AP course, but still require you to take course requirements. Often students go to a higher level.</p>
<p>Without even throwing the name of a college out there, being able to tell you if this course of study is possible is impossible.</p>
<p>let me add in with regard to getting ahead of yourself: “especially something as explicit and COMPETITIVE as plastic surgery.”</p>
<p>The AVERAGE medical student scored in the 85th percentile of the MCAT and the AVERAGE plastic surgeon scored in the 85th percentile of USMLE step 1. That roughly puts your AVERAGE plastic surgeon in the 98th percentile of MCAT takers. Getting into medical school in no way guarantees one a career as a plastic surgeon.</p>
My son, a pre-med, is a double major in CS and Biology with a minor in Linguistics. He is done with his minor and his lowest grade in Linguistics is an A. My gut feeling is that both your majors are not hard. However, a lot depends on you and the rigor of your school. Getting a lot of AP credits definitely eases things up. Bottom line - what your are thinking off doing has been done before.</p>
<p>^ He is on schedule. He has a heavy load in the fall semester of his senior year, which unfortunately is not good considering that it is the interview season. His spring load is light and he wants it that way, just in case some school wants him to do some additional pre-reqs.</p>
<p>I’ll just throw this out there since I’m sure this thread will come up in google searches but if one of the two majors is biology I imagine it’s pretty much a guarantee, regardless of what school you’re at, that you could double while pre-med.</p>
<p>I do not quite follow what you are saying, i<em>wanna</em>be_Brown.
If one major is bio which means pre-med, student could do double? Does it mean usually people who are in pre-med do double?</p>
<p>kal123, you son does CS, bio, pre-med, and minor in Linguistics. he is a superman. I am thinking to do CS and bio(premed) double, not sure if it’s too hard since they are not related areas.</p>
Based on your age, you have long way to go before you get into college. My serious suggestion to you is to concentrate on your high school. Do a lot of APs and hit a home run on your SAT.</p>
Now, that you clarified that you are not a 13 year old, I will give you a serious answer Biology and CS double major is a great combination, if you can pull it off. Even though there are no overlapping course work between them, there are tremendous real world synergies between those two fields. Moreover, CS can offer you a great career in itself. With all the uncertainties surrounding medical school admissions, it doesn’t hurt to have a good backup plan.</p>
<p>Having said all that, I had serious reservations when my son said he wanted to go for that combo. At his school CS is part of the school of engineering. That meant taking a lot of math courses and harder versions of some science courses like Physics. On top of that there were scheduling conflicts. He had to take a lot of summer courses and he got some generous AP credits that helped him to some extent.</p>
<p>Bottom line - it’s a great combination, if you can pull it off. Be very mindful of the adverse side effects.</p>
<p>You do have 42 hours of core requirements although you might meet English, some math and some science requirements needed for premed in those hours (at least 6+3+6). Although there are no required hours listed yet for psychology and sociology, you may cover another 3 hours under humanities and possibly another 3 under discovery for bio lab.</p>
<p>You need 54 to 57 premed credit hours to fulfill Texas med schools requirements (some schools accept AP credits for a part of it).</p>
<p>Thank you, kal123. Sorry about the confusion about my age. </p>
<p>‘With all the uncertainties surrounding medical school admissions, it doesn’t hurt to have a good backup plan.’ </p>
<p>I 100% agree with this. But I know that CS classes have many projects which consumes lots of time debugging the programs, algorithms etc. I am hesitated, but I really like to do this. Some students are very good at programming in high school already, unfortunately I am not one of them. Took one Java class in junior year, forgot most of them already.</p>
My son was one of them. I got him into programming by teaching him Basic and some Java over a summer. A lot of times, when I came home from work I used to find him programming games in C/C++. I used admonish him for “wasting” time. He took AP Computer Science AB, without ever taking a CS course in high school and scored a 5 on it.</p>
<p>If you don’t enjoy programming and are not reasonably good at it, programming assignments can be taxing. It can be managed though. At his school he is not the only CS major doing pre-med sequence. If you make CS your only major, it gets a bit easier.</p>
Biology and CS double major is a great combination, if you can pull it off. Even though there are no overlapping course work between them, there are tremendous real world synergies between those two fields. Moreover, CS can offer you a great career in itself. With all the uncertainties surrounding medical school admissions, it doesn’t hurt to have a good backup plan.</p>