Chemical Engineering and English double major

livorneo
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:20:36 +0000

Frankly…I don’t think that would be possible. Assuming you have advanced placement to get out of general chemistry and calculus as a freshman, that still leaves you with 22 courses for the Chem Engineering ABET degree (including prereqs and senior requirement) and 14 courses for the English major, which already adds up to 36 - the average number of courses that Yalies take over their 4 years. That’s without even fulfilling your social science or foreign language distributional/skills requirements.

That being said, it’s quite misguided to think you have to major in English to get “the experience of university courses in English and creative writing.” You’d have room to take a few or even several courses in the English dept. - you just wouldn’t have enough room to fulfill a second major.

ETA: Also, you don’t have to think of it as “dropping” a major after your first two years, because you don’t even have to declare your major till the end of sophomore year in the first place.