To Double-Major or to not...

Applying to College
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<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>Next year I will be attending either UC Berkeley or UCLA, and of course, a week before the SIR is due, I am still having trouble deciding. If any of you have any insight about that, feel free to respond. However, this post has to do mainly with double-majoring.</p>

<p>At any school, it will be difficult to double major. But at a UC, I feel like it would be even more difficult, considering that I will most likely major in a science and a humanity if I can. At UCLA, the counselors made it seem like it was a little more difficult.</p>

<p>The thing is, I have such a wide variety of interests. But the double-major I would be considering would be political science (or IR) and physics (or astrophysics). Then again, I may discover that I don't like either of those very much!</p>

<p>Any advice for a prospective double-major, especially for a UC?</p>

<p>Is it really as impossible as it may seem?? Given the extra classes, credits, etc...</p>

<p>Hopefully some of you have already double-majored or are currently double-majoring.</p>

<p>P.S. Does that look good for Grad School? I don't really care because I never have...I'm just interested in very different areas and want to take them for learning's sake. But I am curious nonetheless.</p>

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<p>Don’t let your choice of school come to how difficult double-majoring is. By the time you actually need to make that decision, you will either be totally uninterested in double majoring or be so passionate about it that you will find a way to make it happen, regardless of your school.</p>

<p>Double majoring in two totally unrelated fields will be difficult (in terms of scheduling) at any school just because of the sheer volume of credits you need. Workload depends on the major. It’s always manageable, but you better believe it will cut significantly into your social life and stress level.</p>