<p>So, I’m planning on going to carnegie mellon. It’s my first choice, my father went there, and it’s a damn good school. So I’m an expediant nutjob and through my online highschool I’m graduating 2 years early, although I’m probably going to spend the first year out doing some core classes at brookdale community college. So anyway, my plan is to do robotics, but I like to have a lot of fields under my belt so I can cross-apply them and make something interesting. So I’d also like electrical engineering, and material science which consists of physics and chemistry. I’d also like to take some economics classes. So I was wondering if there was anyway I could really manage all of this. I don’t get stressed, so that’s not a problem, but I need to know if there’s a way to really put all of this together in 4 years, although I also intend to get a Ph.D. Is there a place where I can find out what courses I need for each major and minor and how many courses I can take at maximum? I’m also a musician, I play the upright bass and I’m a member of a local opera chorus, but with everything I don’t know if I’ll have any opportunity to take courses related to that, that’s a lower priority. </p>
<p>Would I have to apply to the school of computer science, the mellon college of science, and the carnegie institute of technology? Or by applying to one of them can I take courses in each of them?</p>
<p>Are there actually enough extra courses for me to do all of this?</p>
<p>Am I nuts?</p>
<p>What’s your favorite color?</p>
<p>Course catalog is here: <a href=“2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog < Carnegie Mellon University”>2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog < Carnegie Mellon University; ; you can look through it to see what you’d need to do in different majors. I would caution you to make sure that you’ve expended all the possibilities at your high school before graduating, rather than just taking the minimum number of courses for graduation. Often, AP courses can be much more challenging than courses at a local community college.</p>
<p>You can do a minor in robotics at CMU, and robotics club is very active. You can take courses in other schools as long as you can fit them into your schedule. If you come in with lots of AP credit, it is much easier to fit everything into your schedule. Just so you know, CMU almost never grants credit for community college English courses as a fulfillment of the university wide English requirement.</p>
<p>You can definitely play in the All University Orchestra (nonmajors), which is nothing amazing, but is fun. Right now we’re playing Rhapsody in Blue and last semester we played Scherezade.</p>
<p>oh I’m not doing the minimum requirements, it’s just self-paced, and I’m fast-paced. As well, brookdale, while a community college, is a very good school. I believe it’s the third best community college in the country.</p>
<p>It is very possible to express your interests in a variety of fields. Carol Goldburg at <a href=“mailto:cg28@andrew.cmu.edu”>cg28@andrew.cmu.edu</a> has a funny story about how this one kid was able to complete 3-4 majors and a grad degree in 4 years. </p>
<p>The normal student takes 5 courses a semester and even drops 1 or 2 once the drop date comes. The thing about CMU is that the core requirements are not that extreme but the units are (you must take say 360 units to graduate) so you can do multiple “cores” to make up for the 360 and end up with 2-3 majors.</p>
<p>The number of majors you can do concurrently depends greatly on the degree of double-counting they allow. Some majors are annoying and say that no course used to fulfill one of their requirements may be used to fulfill the requirements of any other major or minor. Make sure you check about that before you commit to anything.</p>
<p>CMU is absolutely obsessed with its “interdisciplinary collaboration” ideal. They call it the “Da Vinci Effect”. So yes, they do make it easy (and encourage you) to take courses in different areas instead of just concentrating on your primary major. You should definitely do so if you want to; there’ll be less opportunity to do so after college.</p>
<p>I don’t think we can say much except that dabbling in fields/majors is recommended and relatively easy compared to other top schools (exception being Rice U.) A talk with your advisor will help more than any of us as the courses aer changing next year I think.</p>