<p>I'm a junior thinking ahead of what I want to do in college.</p>
<p>Is a Math/Philosophy double major while satisfying pre-med requirements and taking foreign language every year possible?</p>
<p>Or is that too much work?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Are you coming in with AP credits? If not, I really don’t see how it’s possible unless you go to school nearly year round.
Plus it’s not really worth it since you want to leave room open for internships and an elective or two. I’d do one of those as a major and one of those as a minor. Are you set on taking a language the full time? Because those are very credit heavy normally. If you just want to focus on learning it to just speak it, I’d recommend studying abroad in that country rather than constantly taking classes in it.</p>
<p>If you want to be done in 4 years, then it’s not likely, no (possible, maybe, but you’ll be taking so many classes every semester, it won’t be very fun) - all of those things will likely have very different requirements that don’t overlap much. I agree that it would be best to pick one as a minor and study abroad if you want to learn a language - way better than just taking classes every year, anyway.</p>
<p>Where are you going? It would depend on how easily you can get the classes you need. You certainly have enough time in 4 years to do it, but what would keep you for a fifth year would be scheduling problems. At my college, I would say, hell yes, you can do that, but I know my brother, who’s going to Ohio State, would never be able to pull something like that just because it’s much harder to get the classes you want there.</p>
<p>I want to give you a concrete example of the workload you might expect. The requirements vary by college, but at mine you’d be looking at the following:</p>
<p>12 courses for the math major
11 courses for the philosophy major
9 courses for pre-med
8 courses for one language course per semester
3 more courses for general education requirements not covered by the courses above</p>
<p>That’s a total of 43 courses. The “normal” courseload is 32 courses in 8 semesters. You’d have to take a course overload every semester <em>and</em> summer courses to finish in 4 years.</p>
<p>This might be slightly easier at a quarter school where you would have more chances to get ahead or catch up to requirements. But even so, it will take a lot of careful planning, probably some luck to avoid schedule conflicts, and many very busy quarters.</p>
<p>If it’s something that’s really important to you, it might be helpful to check out course listings and requirements to see if some places have more of an overlap. At UCLA for example, there are 3 classes that can count for both Philosophy and Math. I would suspect that at most places it’s more like 0, but you might find a place with more. There might also be places with a large overlap between Math and pre-med requirements.</p>
<p>Like mentioned before, a quarter school might be better, or at least somewhere where you’d be able to take 9 courses per year, not 8. At my school, there’s 2 semesters plus a May Term, so most people can take 9 courses per year (but us music majors take more than that!). You might look into schools with that type of calendar too.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s doable at Wash U in 4 years without taking more than 15-16 credits a semester…Wash U is really flexible about that kind of stuff. At other schools it’s probably a lot harder / impossible.</p>
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<p>Well 9 is basically the minimum full time load at a quarter school. It’s more like you can take 14 classes a year and you won’t be permanently overloaded.</p>