Interesting Double Major interest

MD_Mom_1
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:41:54 +0000

In addition to the time required for theater and the time required for an engineering major, students have to get in both sets of classes and you can’t tell whether you can get the classes during the application process. My daughter started out pursuing dual majors in physics and Japanese. Her first year, she missed 40 percent of her honors physics lectures, which met five days a week, because of a conflict with Japanese. Both classes had one section. The physics prof worked with her. She attended a summer language program to get her second year of Japanese finished and loosen up her schedule.

Her second year, she switched to applied math/Japanese and had no conflicts in the fall, but missed her Japanese lecture in the spring because of a mth course conflict. It was a problem for several students, so they worked together. DD discovered that for the fall of her junior year, once again, there is a scheduling conflict. She has decided to go for a certificate in East Asian studies rather than the major. She chose a rather large university so that she would have more choices.

Anyway, my point is that academically a student may have the talent, desire, and ability to do both, but there may be other issues, and you will not be able to tell how it will work ahead of time. The good news is that kids change their minds.