<p>Right now I'm planning on doing MMSS along with psychology, since MMSS is an adjunct major. Also, I would love to major in music cognition at Bienen, and I know there's a 5-year dual degree program between WCAS and Bienen. Is it possible to do the dual degree program if I'm already doing MMSS?</p>
<p>I doubt it, and even if it is possible, why would you destroy your social life like that? Part of college is having fun, and tripple majoring wouldn’t allow for any fun, at all.</p>
<p>This is purely curiosity, so I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way: does triple majoring/double majoring/anything more than a single major really take away from your social life? I wouldn’t be required to take any additional classes right, just less electives? Plus I have AP exams taking care of a few distribution requirements, and MMSS takes care of a lot of the psych requirements. I would assume that psych also counts towards some of the music cognition classes as well. The last thing I want to do is ruin my social life - I plan on playing intramural sports, singing in an a cappella group, and potentially contributing to the Daily. What’s different about taking on extra majors/minors besides having less room for electives? Is the collective course load more for your require classes? Also, this is over five years, not four.</p>
<p>Definitely not…S is in ISP and Engineering and he is having plenty of social life…well…more than what he had in his HS and that is saying a lot ;-)</p>
<p>Long story short…if you want to have a great social life, you will find ways to make it happen!</p>
<p>A major, on average, takes 20 courses. You, on average, will have 60. With the 12 distros which only a few will count towards your major, plus foreign language requirement that’s way over 60. And classes can’t count for both as far as I’ve heard, so I don’t think psych couldn count towards both. So I highly doubt that you could get all three in. Especially while doing intermurals, a capella, and the Daily. That’s a lot of clubs, and a lot of credit hours. What would you do with Mathematic Methods in the Social Sciences, Psychology, and Music Cognition? It seems you just want triple majors to have an extra major. I just don’t think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>I don’t have a complete idea of what I want to do after school, but I’m thinking graduate school for the social sciences. In an ideal world, I’ll find a way to combine music, math, and psychology (I know that math-music, math-psychology, and music-psychology fields are very possible, but I haven’t heard of opportunities combining all three).</p>
<p>I know for a fact that MMSS is 12 courses, and I believe six of the required courses for psych are taken care of by MMSS (but I’ll have to double check). I think music cognition and psychology would have one course overlap at most. But you’re right, might make more sense to just do music as a minor if it’s going to completely clog up my schedule.</p>
<p>I’m going to Wildcat Days this Monday. Is there anyone I can ask about this?</p>
<p>I would ask one of the admissions counselors, or one of the students you’re grouped up with.</p>
<p>Note that you cannot double-count major courses in most cases, but you CAN count major courses as prerequisites for another major. Triple-majors would be a question for academic advising, once you’re on campus as a student.</p>
<p>[Double</a> Majors: Bienen School of Music - Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.music.northwestern.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/majors-and-double-majors.html]Double”>http://www.music.northwestern.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/majors-and-double-majors.html)</p>
<p>Double-majoring or taking two minors can put a dent into your social life if you choose difficult fields of study. That means you won’t necessarily be able to retake courses, or take easy courses to break up the work you have. So it can! But that doesn’t mean it will. It really depends.</p>
<p>Also, the only triple majors I see generally have one of those 3 majors be a foreign language.</p>
<p>I’m just saying, you want to enjoy college, and triple majors probably don’t exactly have much time to enjoy. And like PieceofToast said, you count double count those classes for your major. You’ll figure out, at least partially, what you want to do doing college, so I doubt you’ll even want a triple major.</p>
<p>The best piece of advice in here is
The five year dual degree program is a BA (WCAS)/BMus (Bienen) program. You’d have to pass a performance audition to be accepted into a BMus program. Bienen does offer a non-performance BA (and music cognition is one of the fields where it’s offered), but that’s not part of the five year program as far as I know.</p>
<p>The psychology major is 11 credits + 5 related courses. Related courses aren’t subject to the double counting rule, so your MMSS math would almost certainly cover those. Depending on how you choose the 11 psychology credits, you can cover as many as six distribution requirements (although two of them would also be covered by MMSS).</p>
<p>Bienen makes it a little difficult for non-majors to do anything useful. They do offer a handful of minors to WCAS students and one of them happens to be music cognition. It is a 9 credit minor, but they will allow you to double count up to four credits (really generous for a minor) and several of your psychology credits would be appropriate. That said, there is really not a lot offered at the undergraduate level in music cognition, so look at it closely before you decide.</p>
<p>Best of luck with whatever you end up doing!</p>