<p>I’m interested in doing a dual degree and my calculation tells me that i’ll have to earn 24 credits per semester. Is this too much? Have you seen people doing it?</p>
<p>Yes, it’s way too much. There is no way in hell you could do 24 credits/semester.</p>
<p>If they were doing it, we wouldn’t see them. They’d be too busy studying.</p>
<p>And a word of advice: don’t get a dual-degree. No one will care. You are either going to end up working in one field or the other (or maybe something completely different). You’ll spend an extra year at Cornell to get a second bachelors degree when you could have helped yourself much, much more by getting a Masters in whatever field you want. This is seriously how it will work: you’ll get both degrees and think you’ve put yourself at some sort of advantage. Instead, employers/grad schools in subject #1 will not give two ****s about your other degree and would actually be more likely to question your interest in/“allegiance” to whatever it is they’d be hiring you for. You’ll be seen as someone without direction who would be more likely to quit because you lose interest (seeing that you already spent an extra $100k on a second bachelors degree). OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration; but at the very least, no one will care in either field about your degree in the other.</p>
<p>What two degrees do you want?</p>
<p>Yes, it’s too much.
I haven’t <em>seen</em> people doing it, because I’m sure whoever does it is never seen by anybody. They’ve either given themselves a heart attack or are constantly in the library.
Don’t do a dual degree. There’s no point. It doesn’t look impressive and will just make your life suck.</p>
<p>I have a friend whos taking 23, but alot of them are pass/fail…if its pass fail, then maybe…but if u want to dual degree, u may have to take core classes…then it will be VERy diffcult</p>
<p>omg you guys are really scarying me!
the thing is…I havn’t decided whether i want to become an engineer or a composer…(yes live-, the two degrees are Bioengineering and Music)</p>
<p>also…this is the accelerated option i’m talking about, which only takes 4 years</p>
<p>No adviser in the world is going to allow you to take 24 credits a semester in your freshman year. In subsequent years, you might be able to convince someone to let you do it but you’d probably have to perform some sexual favors. The average is 15 credits/sem. A few crazy people will consistently take 19ish. No one takes 24 consistently.</p>
<p>24 credits = 6-8 courses = No life</p>
<p>I think you can do it but you will have to be content with getting Cs and Ds in your classess.</p>
<p>If you can’t decide between engineering and music, take courses in each and decide by the end of your sophomore year like everyone else. You shouldn’t get a degree in both just because you “can’t decide.” You have to decide eventually. Take a few courses in each and I’m sure by the end of your freshman year you’ll know what to do.</p>
<p>i took 22 (engineering) credits first semester…which was 5 classes and then some 1 credit things like wind ensemble, p.e. and my engrd 150. first semester, that was ok. now i’m taking 21 (also 5 classes) and its kind of a stuggle because I got involved in a lot more this semester. i tried 6 for about 2 weeks and couldn’t handle it. so if all you want to do is schoolwork, then you can try. i also was considering a dual degree and realized it just wasn’t worth getting all the requirements in both colleges. Instead, I’m just going to take a lot of classes in the other subject and have a sort of an unofficial minor.</p>
<p>Most people struggle with 18 or 19 in their sophomore, junior and senior years. You really want to take a reasonable course load your very first semester; trying to do too much classes-wise while trying to get adjusted to college will burn you out.
On the other hand, you can always start out with a lot of classes and then just drop them if it becomes too much (you have 7 whole weeks to do this). It’s generally much easier to drop classes than add them.</p>
<p>rocen, so take a mix of classes your first semester. The basic engineering schedule will only be 3 core classes and a writing seminar - throw in intro music theory as well.</p>
<p>The dual-degree will do nothing for you. If you are dead-set on not deciding on a career path until after you graduate from Cornell, then just be a double Bio/Music major in Arts. You’ll be able to apply to graduate school for Bioengineering after that, and you wouldn’t have to satisfy the requirements of both Arts and CoE.</p>
<p>you have to probably stay over the summer…every summer. AKA you will be a work slave for the next four years…trust me, you’re only young once…its not worth it…</p>
<p>Prefrosh are ridiculous little creatures, aren’t they?</p>
<p>But they’re so cute! I just want to pat them on the head.</p>
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<h2>This is a great idea! But what i’ll have to do is to take some electives in engineering (Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electric Circuit…) to fulfill some of the grad school’s requirements for BME. I guess what i’ll do is talk to the advisors and see what they think of the two plans :)</h2>
<p>I just finished my bio and physicsC ap’s today and my teachers totally prepared us to the wrong direction! :(</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.biology.cornell.edu/academics/computational.html[/url]”>http://www.biology.cornell.edu/academics/computational.html</a></p>
<p>That may interest you. Computational Biology focus - you’d get some more quantitative stuff that would be necessary for further study in bioengineering.</p>
<p>You are still talking about taking a LOT of courses, though - major in Biology will be pretty intense, then Music courses as electives, then a few engineering electives. I have no idea what kind of coursework the music major requires, though.</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice! It looks very interesting. I’ll spend more time to study the requirements of Comp. Bio when I’m done with all my APs (the “Required courses for Program of Study in Computational Biology” stated on that site is very confusing)</p>