<p>I was planning out my classes and I figured that I would have enough credits and have taken all my required classes after the first semester of my senior year, so would they let me graduate in 3.5 years?</p>
<p>Also, if it is possible, do you guys recommend it? I plan on an engineering degree with a statistics minor.</p>
<p>someone I know did an EE degree in 2.5 years. So 3.5 years is definitely possible.</p>
<p>whats the rush? enjoy your time in college.</p>
<p>^^^agree.</p>
<p>Besides, if you stretch your load out, you’re likely to do a little better gradewise, and you can take more electives.</p>
<p>Are you majoring in IEOR? If so, the stats minor is easier to pull out, since a lot of courses overlap with the OR major.</p>
<p>At first I was also reluctant to cut my college experience short but I figure I wouldn’t miss out on that much in half a year. Also, a semester at Cal costs about 13k for me, plus housing and other living expenses, and my parents are making me pay back every penny heh, so yeah, I would rather start working earlier and save a few bucks.</p>
<p>Yup, IEOR major. I was reading the requirements for the stats minor and I only need 4 other stats courses to get the minor. If I do the full four years, I figured I could either double major or major and double-minor, so any other minors that are easy to pull off if doing an engineering major?</p>
<p>If I remember university policy correctly, if you want to minor is something only one course can overlap with your major.</p>
<p>3.5 years for IEOR + stat minor is tough to pull off unless you have a few AP courses under your belt.</p>
<p>Does that include the pre-requisites?</p>
<p>Stats pre-req - Math 1A, 1B, 53, 54
Then 5 upper-division courses if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>I’ll have finished all the pre-reqs and I need stat 134 for IEOR, so I just need 4 more upper-division stats classes. Is that right?</p>
<p>Correct.</p>
<p>The required upper division courses (total of five courses) will be: Statistics 101-102 or 134-135; and three courses from: Statistics 150, 151A, 151B, 152, 153, 154, 155, and 156, including at least one course with a laboratory (exactly as in the major).</p>
<p>To me, I would say that’s okay. I’m planning on grad. in 2 years. Already met with L&S advisor and major advisor. This is going to be interesting.</p>
<p>Some of those stat classes probably have their OR equivalents, like queueing theory. Taking extra stat classes will make you stronger for IEOR classes too. You might be able to wave off some IEOR classes that are very similar to stat classes you will take and that could count towards your minor, like IEOR 165, and take other IEOR or ORMS classes instead (pure speculation on my part; that will depend on having a great advisor flexible dept head)</p>
<p>Econ is the other slam dunk candidate for a minor with IEOR, though I heard someone say that teh Econ dept doesn’t do minors anymore? If you have room for 3-4 courses in your electives for Econ classes however, you shouldn’t have much to go for the Econ degree if you want to duoble major.</p>
<p>If you can get loans/grants for your last semester instead of having your parents foot the bill, or they may deem your double majoring to be worthy enough for their extended support. It will look good on your resume particularly if you’re going for an MBA later. At which point, carrying a very low-interest loan won’t make that much of a difference.</p>
<p>The waiving option seems interesting. I’ll look into that.</p>
<p>I was looking around the econ website and couldn’t find any information about an econ minor - only a double-major option, but the major requires so many courses and I doubt I’d be able to finish it in 3.5 years. I’m not that worried about the money; my parents just like to pressure me (you know how Chinese parents are). I’ll definitely look into it though. Thanks a lot for all your advice.</p>
<p>To Dranakin, graduating in 2 years??? holy bejeezus how many units are you coming in with???</p>
<p>There are no ORMS courses. ORMS students take IEOR, economics, bus.ad or sociology courses.</p>
<p>Why do your parents like to pressure you?</p>
<p>Why can’t you graduate in 3.5 years if you’re done with the requirements? I know lots of people who graduated in 3 years, and a couple people and I graduated in 2.5 years.</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want. It is entirely possible. If you finish the graduation requirements, you can graduate. I asked my advisor about graduating a year early last semester and she said it wasn’t uncommon at all (I decided against it personally).</p>
<p>If college is putting a significant financial burden on you, and in 3.5 years you have taken all of the classes that you want, then definitely graduate. The reason I decided not to leave early is because the financial burden isn’t too bad for me, and there are a lot of classes I want to take.</p>
<p>EDIT: BTW, this new AJAX posting is nice.</p>
<p>AJAX posting?</p>
<p>Enjoy your time in college. If college is costing you to take out lots of students loans, etc., then get out of college as fast as you can.</p>
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<p>If you use the quick reply box at the bottom, when you post the reply, it adds it without reloading the page. So you send data to the server (and get some back) without reloading the page, i.e. asynchronously. AJAX = Asynchronous Javascript and XML, or using Javascript and XML to get data from the server without reloading the page.</p>
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<p>Truth be told, I have never seen a single employer ever care a whit about a double major. Most employers don’t even notice, and even those that do don’t care. The truth is, you are going to be hired or not hired based on far far more arbitrary criteria than your academics. </p>
<p>That’s why I think double majors are highly overrated. You should only do one because you have genuine academic interests in 2 fields. You shouldn’t do it because you think it will actually help you to get a job, because it probably won’t.</p>
<p>^ That’s also what the Career Center says. I have a friend who is double majoring in Integrative Bio and History of Art. Two really different majors, I can’t imagine how it would work together.</p>
<p>It’s quite easy to graduate with one major and a minor in 3 years. Engineering is hard, but there’s not actually a lot of upper divs you have to take. However, why would you want to?</p>