<p>Someone told me that even though this is true, it’s really not ALL true because you have to take a certain amount of classes to be even eligible for a certain major by junior year.</p>
<p>How much am I limiting myself in terms of non-major classes if I’m thinking about doing a double major in Econ/English? </p>
<p>I love to take things that are “not necessary” but I’m afraid this won’t be possible because of the double major.</p>
<p>You need 10 courses for an [url=<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/%7Eenglish/major/%5DEnglish%5B/url">http://www.amherst.edu/~english/major/]English[/url</a>] major, including at least one from 3 different "levels". See the linked website for how they group courses into levels. </p>
<p>An [url=<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/%7Eecon/major/requirements.html%5DEcon%5B/url">http://www.amherst.edu/~econ/major/requirements.html]Econ[/url</a>] major requires 9 courses in econ, plus Math 11. Those 9 econ classes must include Econ 11, plus each of the three core theory courses (micro, macro, econometrics). You can place out of Math 11 and Econ 11 with AP.</p>
<p>Assuming a normal load of 4 courses per semester, you will have 32 total classes. A double major in English and Econ takes up 20 of those, plus 1 for your first-year seminar (which you can choose from a list of 20). That leaves 11 courses to use as you see fit. If you place out of Math 11 or Econ 11, you get even more. That's the equivalent of 3 semesters worth of non-major courses, which is a ton compared to almost every other school.</p>
<p>Yeah, and at pretty much every school, you need to have taken at least an intro course in a certain department to declare that major.... it's not Amherst selling itself as something it's not or anything like that.</p>