<p>Can I realistically do a double major for Psychology and Economics, or would that be way too much? Anyone ever done something like this before?</p>
<p>I bet you could.
But you'd probably need to, possibly, take at least one summer off for study, or have 5 classes a semester.</p>
<p>Should be fine. Economics is a 12CU major, and psychology is a 13CU major (normally 1 course = 1 CU) If you were doing just psychology you would need 33CU to graduate; just economics would be 32CU. I don't know exactly how double majors would work, but I'd imagine there'd be some overlap between the two.</p>
<p>It will be incredibly easy, and 5 classes a semester is not a hard thing.</p>
<p>Pshaw, you college kids have it too easy.</p>
<p>If you research some more, you'll find some ridiculous statistic like 75% of Penn students do a double major or dual degree. It's kind of a "Penn" thing.</p>
<p>mattwonder, in that 75%, does that include Wharton students doing two concentrations, as well, or actually double majoring, (which I guess would be a dual degree)? Because if I don't get into Huntsman, but into Wharton, I may want to do that as well, but it seems unless you have lots of AP credits, it generally takes longer than four years (my school doesn't teach for APs, so that's out of the question).</p>
<p>If you plan well and take 5 classes/semester (which shouldn't even be an issue; I can't imagine why you would only want to take 4 classes/semester considering how much you pay to be here, unless you're a senior), it's possible to do any combination of double-majors, even without any overlap.</p>
<p>You're going to take 5 classes/semester x 8 semesters = 40 classes. Subtract 12 for Econ and 13 for Psych and you have 15 classes for general requirements (two of which should count towards your majors) plus electives. Hell, you could triple major if you really wanted to.</p>
<p>Of course you can! And taking 5 classes a semester is good. Four classes (unless they're really hard ones) is too easy.</p>