<p>I am a senior in high school, and my grades used to be pretty low, but they are in the B's and A's now, and I am very interested in Psychology! My only issue is that I know that college means you need to do a lot of work, but what does Psychology really need? Am I going to end up having little to no sleep whilst in college, I really do not want want to be completely exhausted because that will then lead to me failing and I really do not want that, obviously.
Does anyone have any advice?</p>
<p>Well, I spent time calculating my girlfriend’s GPA yesterday. She has a 3.9 Psychology Major GPA. From my experience and being her study buddy for the past two and some years, it is not that difficult for someone who is good at writing, reading, and is a naturally good critical thinker. </p>
<p>That being said some people could struggle with it for some reason. Lots of reading perhaps. Not sure why. My girlfriend has pretty bad dyslexia and gets by just fine. </p>
<p>A family friend of mine dropped out of accounting at his university so that he could continue being a frat boy and get good grades, so he’s majoring in psychology right now and partying it up while doing well. Although he’s smart (2400 SAT), he has a lot of maturing to do.</p>
<p>You should persue your dreams. If you are handling you current work load, there is no reason to thing College will be any different. The quality schools you select will have help available to you if you have difficulty. Go for it!</p>
<p>Psychology is among the most popular majors at many colleges. And trust me, it’s not because students like to be overwhelmed with work and chronically sleep deprived…</p>
<p>A college wouldn’t accept you if they didn’t think that you could handle the workload.</p>
<p>Not to be a jerk but everyone and their mothers is interested in psychology (it is a really cool subject after all). This means that you’ll need a Masters at least if you want a job in a lot of cases. Keep that in mind. This generally means you should be working in a lab along side your classes so you have lab experience.</p>
<p>I’m not a psych major but I do supplement my major with psych classes. Personally I don’t find it very challenging, but I think part of that is because I’ve learned a lot of the stuff in my other classes. There is a lot of reading, I’ve had a chapter (~50-80 pages) per class. If you read smart it isn’t as bad as it sounds but it is something to keep in mind. </p>
<p>There can be a lot of writing. I’ve managed to avoid that sort of thing. I know my school does have Tier II writing in Psych which means you get the have the fun of writing a scientific research paper. These can be pretty intensive (judging off my major’s version of them).</p>
<p>My school offers both a BA and BS is psych. Depending on what you take you may have an easier or harder time. Looking at my school I would say that the BS is harder in the sense that you take more Natural Science classes and less Social Science and Humanities classes. This means you’ll have to do more math or memorize a lot more rather than write papers. There are also additional math and science requirements.</p>