<p>So i am planning on attending Umich next year and was confused about how their graduate requirements. I was planning on doing Computer Science major in LSA. I also wanted to possibly minor in Biology. So i saw that it takes approximately 55 credits to complete a CS major on their website(20 prereq and 35 major). </p>
<p>That leaves about 65 more credits to graduate and i have to take classes from Skills and Distribution. So if i chose to do a Biology minor would that take more credits than the 120 and thus also take more time? I am not quite sure if i want to do Medical school but I am quite interested in CS and Biology, which is why i want the minor.</p>
<p>So my main question is if the minor will add more classes that i have to take on top of the 120 credits needed to graduate.</p>
<p>120 credits is only 15 credit per semester and take no spring or summer credit for 4 years. You need to check the requirement for a specific minor. It may go beyond 120 if you need to fulfill other requirements. Do you have any AP credits?</p>
<p>Yes i have AP credit…i have taken AP Bio, physics. Also have IB at my school and am taking Math HL which is 8 credits for umich. </p>
<p>I should have around 20+ credits coming in. @ryanc00per As of now, i would like to go to med school but i dont want to straight away major in a science</p>
<p>@billcsho so basically the extra credits is dependent on what other prereqs i have to do and the minor’s classes i would have to take.
Has anyone ever done a major and minor in the 120 credits total without having to take extra credits?</p>
<p>It seems like you saw a sample schedule for the CS major and misunderstood how the requirements work. </p>
<p>If you look at that sample schedule, you’ll see somewhere that it says “Elective Credits.” This can include anything. That means that all of those credits can be used towards your Bio minor. </p>
<p>A CS major and Bio minor should not require more than 120 credits. </p>
<p>An easier way to look at it would be like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>You have a bunch of LSA requirements - Anything from your Bio minor can count towards these requirements. Anything from your CS major can count towards these requirements EXCEPT for the distribution credits.</li>
<li>You have a bunch of requirements for your CS major. </li>
<li>You have a bunch of requirements for your Bio minor.</li>
</ol>
<p>After all of this, you still need to end up with a TOTAL number of credits of 120. So if you fulfilled all of those requirements with 100 credits, you’d need to take an additional 20. If you fulfilled all of those requirements with 120 credits, you wouldn’t need to take anything additional.</p>
<p>Getting a high enough GPA for med schools being a CS major may be difficult. I cannot say from experience, but I would imagine it would be significantly harder than a typical bio degree. Med school admissions are primarily based on GPA and MCAT, so it may be smart to focus on easier classes.</p>
<p>If you’re good at CS and think you can handle it, go ahead. But med school admissions won’t be easy if you have a 3.2 GPA.</p>
<p>@Pat, I was thinking the same thing. Not to mention no free-time for the ECs and work experience med schools want to see. Computer science + bio is just pure punishment IMO. I’d figure out if you want to go to medical or not no later than winter term of freshman year. If you do, there is a much better track to take and if you don’t the bio is pointless</p>
<p>@Vladenschlutte
Thank You!!! that is exactly what i needed to know. </p>
<p>@ryanc00per and Pat1120
Yea, I understand that it will be extremely difficult to accomplish CS and bio. It is very unlikely that I will choose both. I will most likely end up doing just one of them as also choose it as my career since i have great interest in both. </p>
<p>Another question though, I have heard of people doing a BBA at Ross with a minor in Bio and still accomplishing biomedical research programs and such. Are the research programs and internships limited to bio/chem/other science majors or do they accept you as long as you are taking the classes that pertain to medical school</p>
<p>The firms that do biomedical research need all sorts of people. MechEs, EEs, BMEs, BBAs, etc. The person with the BBA+Bio minor isn’t going to be doing technical work at these firms, but they may be doing business work at these firms.</p>