<p>OK!
Major--something you wanna give a lot of time to and you are hell lot interested in !
Minor-- you like it, and you wanna give 'some' time to learn it and want to have a degree in that particular field! ( correct me if I am wrong )
now my questions ( please seniors help me !!!)
*can we do double majors ? triple majors ? ( or multiple majors?) </p>
<p>*what about the multiple minors?</p>
<p>*what if we do not want to do any minors ?</p>
<p>*Can we major and minor on the same subject?( if we can, what is the difference ? Is it not like repeating the same thing?)</p>
<p>*Until when should we decide to have a major and a minor when we get into the college/university?</p>
<p>Please help !!..
(may be sixtringrocker)
Thanks in advance</p>
<p><em>**sixstringrocker</em>*</p>
<p>Major- your core field of study.
Minor- aside from your core, something you’re interested in. requires a LOT less courses to minor in something. </p>
<p>1) yes, you can double major. I’ve heard of people doing triple major, don’t know them personally. </p>
<p>2) You might only be allowed one minor or multiple, depending upon school. IMO, why would you want to minor in multiple things? don’t waste classes. Take stuff outside your major in different areas and experience the college and academic diversity.</p>
<p>3) Minors are optional, completely optional.</p>
<p>4) No, you cannot major and minor in the same area.</p>
<p>5) It depends. At Lafayette (and many other LACs), you only need to declare a major by end of 2nd year. For engineers, it’s end of 1st year at Lafayette but changing majors is easy. Not sure about universities.</p>
<p>helps?</p>
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<li><p>Yes, you can do as many majors as you can, but there are extra credit requirements and the number of years you’d want to spend on campus. It also depends on how many AP credits you come in with. I know a guy who is in a dual degree program but is also doing double major of some sort, with two minors. It’s like 3 majors or something but not exactly a triple major. It’s possible for him because he came in with A LOT of AP credits, and he will graduate in 5 years, not 4.
Colleges also have dual degree programs, which is just like majoring in two different programs, except you get to overlap electives and save some credits. Dual degree and double major are slightly different but I dont know much about it.</p></li>
<li><p>Minors, in most cases, don’t matter a lot. It’s more of an interest thing. Some people like to take free classes without declaring minors, as most people would call it, “experiencing different classes - academic diversity” while some would not do it at all. Not having a minor wouldn’t hurt you in most cases. But sometimes, whether you minor in the area of your major or something completely different, like say Chem Engineering and Music, IMO, it’d just show that you do like academic diversity or concentration/interest in one particular subject.</p></li>
<li><p>Minor can be in nearly the same area as your major or a completely different program. Usually minors require only about 5-6 classes in average (14-16 credits). You can choose to minor in any area of your interest other than your major, provided the college provides a minor in that subject and that you meet all the class requirements.
You can also do a minor in the area of your major. Students are allowed to do so, so that they can have a concentration within their major. Eg: I am a dual degree Mechanical & Business Major, but I am also minoring in Aerospace Engineering and Economics, because these two are the fields that greatly interest me. For these minors, I’ll have to take extra classes than required by my majors. These minors aren’t exactly under my major but aren’t very away from my major either. Although these are officially declared as minors, these are more likely seen as concentration/specialization area within my major.
So, minors can be both an exploration of something other than your major that you’re interested in or a concentration on something within your major that you’re interested in.</p></li>
<li><p>At Lehigh, you can change your major anytime you want. However, you will have to make up for the required classes you missed in your new major in order to graduate. This means that you might not graduate in time (i.e. 4 years). A first-year student is required to declare a major either by the end of first year or second year depending on the college s/he is in. Usually Engineers have to declare their major by the end of sophomore year. But again, you can still change it. I know several students who have changed their majors so late in college. One Nepali student at Lehigh changed his/her major from Mech ENg. to International Relations in junior year.</p></li>
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<p>what I was referring to was, you can’t major and minor both in Mechanical Engineering, or economics, or something like that.</p>
<p>sixstringrocker :
Yes, that was hell lot helpful!
Thanks a lot!!</p>
<p>Trinitian: Thanks a lot !!
your explanations are worthy!</p>