Dual Degree - Music Performance and...

har981
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:09:01 +0000

Hi! So I’m going to be a high school senior this fall. I’m planning on doing a dual degree, with one degree being in music performance (I play the French horn). However, I’m not sure about what I want to do for the second degree.

Initially I wanted to major in math, but now I’m not sure because there’s not as many jobs for math majors as there are for engineering majors. Because music performance is obviously a very difficult major to have a career in, I thought maybe it would be better to have a more “practical” second major (like engineering, where you can get a job with only a bachelor’s degree).

But, I really like pure math, and I feel like I would really be interested in studying the more abstract mathematical concepts that I wouldn’t learn as an engineering major. Should I play it safe and go with engineering? How about applied physics? How are my job options there?

Here’s a link to my Chance Me to see my stats, the colleges I’m applying to, etc.