Brown/Princeton or UVA full ride?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:26:28 +0000

orangebrigade:

I am not interested in math or science, though architecture could be a possibility. I am a pretty talented artist. This is one of the reasons for Brown, the dual program between the school and RISD. My childhood dream was working for Pixar.



Art practice may require time consuming studio labs which may be hard to schedule with athletic training (depending on the sport). Also, art practice is a capped major at Berkeley, where you have to apply to declare it after having entered Berkeley as a freshman.

If you want to work at Pixar or a similar type of company, it would probably help to combine art and computer science.

Some athletes do choose “difficult” majors:
[Uncommon in every way: Engineers in intercollegiate sports — UC Berkeley College of Engineering](http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol4-issue10-dec10/athletes)

But also note that, in general, academics are more likely to be compromised in higher profile sports than in lower profile sports. So if your sport is one of the lower profile sports, you are less likely to be alone in having a strong academic emphasis.