<p>Esp. in a top 20 college? How much more work do you get?</p>
<p>I can’t say much at this point since I’m a freshman with a double major, but my four year plan isn’t too bad. I’ll be taking between 17-19 credits all of college compared to the usual 15, but part of this is because I plan on doing two thesis projects, taking up 12 credits senior year. A lot of that depends on the school and majors, and I can’t speak for those outside of what I’m doing.</p>
<p>Depends on the school.
Depends on the majors.
Depends on the core requirements to graduate.
Depends on the core requirements for the specific school(s) the majors are in ie liberal arts, business, etc.
Depends on how many credits you are transferring in.
Depends on how many classes you are willing to take during the summer.</p>
<p>Sophomore double major with a minor and in a certificate program.</p>
<p>It depends how hard the individual majors are. Generally, double majors aren’t extra work, unless your college requirements aren’t set up for double majoring, because you are replacing electives with classes for major #2.</p>
<p>It is not hard if the majors are related. Some courses could be counted for both majors, a bit of double dipping you might say. My daughter is doing double major in math and econ, and minor in gender studies. She takes econ courses with more math focus, so she is able to fulfil her math requirements with those econ courses also. As an A&S student, she is required to taken certain hamanities courses, and she uses them to fultil gender studies requirements. It helps if you have a lot of APs. It does take some planning, especially if you are interested in studying abroad. She is at one of top 20s.</p>
<p>Depends on where you are. For example, at Brown you take at least 32 classes over 4 years. To get a bachelor of arts (AB) usually takes 8-9 classes (at least in the majors I was looking at), maybe 10-11 if you haven’t taken the relevant AP courses. So, if you double-majored in two different AB programs, you’d still have 12-14 or so classes to play around with. A bachelor of science, though, is usually more rigorous, and usually requires about 16 classes (unless you’re engineering. Then it takes more than 25 classes). So, if you double major in two SciBs, you might have 4-8 classes that overlap, meaning you’d only have 4-8 classes to play around with, unless you took the max schedule of 5 classes/semester (rather than 4) for a few (or all) semesters.</p>
<p>See, this is an example of how it depends on the school.</p>
<p>Taking what oldfort said, at my school, if you took an eco class that was math based, it would count only towards economics, not math. And vice versa. The only classes that overlap here are the core classes. You can’t take a history class about biology and count it towards history and bio, etc etc. You can take a writing class about russia and that would count towards your russian major and a writing core class but that’s all the overlapping you can do.</p>
<p>So you’d have to look up the policies at each individual school.</p>