<p>@ mgcsinc Loved the first and the last points. Thanks for your concern. But don’t worry, I did do a little bit of research in high school and I live for football (or soccer as you call it in the states). My entire CommonApp essay was about it. All Pakistanis are Cricket fanatics and am a gaming lover and do have an interest in Robotics. I love spending time outside the class even if it means bunking (Don’t worry I wont bunk at Brown). So dont worry about that. But in my experience the more free time I have the more Cricket and Football I play/watch. So I thought maybe make things a little tougher</p>
<p>Just to clarify about how double-concentrating relates to what shows up on your diploma. If you are double concentrating with a ScB and and AB, you receive just one diploma (presumably the ScB). The name of your concentration program will not be on your diploma, unless you have completed honors, in which case it will state: Honors in (whatever). The concentration programs you have completed will show up on your transcript.</p>
<p>I believe the same applies to double ScBs and double ABs.</p>
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<p>So on your resume, you would be able to put down both concentrations? I would think that any employer who cared would rather see a copy of your official transcripts than your actual diploma?</p>
<p>Also, don’t worry about coming into CS “inexperienced.” (i.e. you don’t have to worry about “brushing up” on CS beforehand). You probably won’t want to take 19 without a significant programming background (because it doesn’t teach design in Java/normal languages, and so can cause hiccups if you don’t have a stronger-than-AP background). And CS17/18 (which you probably would take, being that you know you’re interested in CS not just for doing GUI-level projects) gets its hard-working students up to speed very well, regardless of their background. And as a TA for it, the students who tried to teach themselves the material the summer before did not help themselves, because they learned poor programming practices.</p>
<p>@LoremIpsum: Yes, you can put down both concentrations on your resume. As you mention, basically no employer (or grad school, etc.) is going to demand to see your actual diploma. Brown’s diplomas are in Latin, anyway.</p>
<p>Just to reiterate, there is almost no instance where having a double concentration will have any value-added to your resume.</p>
<p>Also, employers look at your transcript, if anything. Your parents hang your diploma in the dining room.</p>
<p>Triple majoring is nearly unheard of when all of the fields are Sc.B.s. You need to keep that in mind - it’s very very difficult to handle 5 intensive engineering/computer science/science courses each term. I don’t know a single person who does this. This may not even be feasible, really.</p>
<p>One comment I’d like to make is…ultimately, the Open Curriculum lets you do almost anything you want within a certain number of courses. However, having more than 60 hours of schoolwork a week is inhibitory, and I’d guess that this would be the minimum you’d have with your proposed plan. A standard CS course is 10+ hours of work a week, for instance. 10 hours a week is our goal for what’s supposed to be the easiest course in the intro sequence. It’s really hard to know what you’re getting yourself into until you’ve experienced Brown. It’s entirely possible that you can handle this courseload, but it’s probably a mistake to assume you can handle that right away.</p>
<p>By all means, come in hoping to do a lot. But plan on doing one concentration, and takes courses you want to. If it ends up adding up to multiple concentrations, that’s good. If not, you’ll have taken what you want and gotten a lot out of it.</p>
<p>Thanks for all these replies. From what I have read here and on the Brown site, I really shouldnt be worried about a lack of CS background before arriving at Brown.</p>
<p>And again from what I have read here and the Brown website, triple majoring in these subjects is impossible in the course limit. However double major is possible but difficult. I think I ll need close to 34 courses to double major in CS and EE. And I can take some courses from Computer Engineering as part of the EE requirement of courses from other Engg disciplines.</p>
<p>However as many of have pointed there is no need to fret over this right now. What I have decided is a will do a BSc degree in Engineering at Brown so will enroll in the school of engineering and decide my concentration later and start with CS courses and see where it takes me.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help guys. I am now lot more knowledgeable now that I was 3 days ago and feel more certain about my plans at Brown.</p>
<p>There is no “school of engineering” at Brown. There are engineering departments, but everything is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, aka, Brown Undergrad.</p>
<p>I’m glad you made this decision. I was scared a few days ago seeing you thinking you could actually triple-major. Just start out as an engineer and the rest will work itself out. Remember to enjoy yourself, too!</p>
<p>There actually is a School of Engineering now 
How’d you miss that little piece of ridiculous news?</p>
<p>However, you don’t start ‘in’ the School of Engineering – everyone’s an undergrad just like everyone else.</p>
<p>Heh. I had to change my resume when that happened.</p>