psych vs. physics vs. music

apumic
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:42 +0000

One thought: at many schools, a music minor is about the same amount of work as your average major in anything else. I was a music/psych double-degree/double-major and managed it in 4 years but I came in a semester ahead (really a year but one semester didn’t transfer), took 18 units every semester (suicide for most music majors due to so many courses being 3 units of work but counting for only 1, .5, or even 0 units), and and was a full-time student (3-9 units) every summer along w/ working full-time. So what I will say is that it is possible, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it. Remember that for med school you also need volunteer, clinical, leadership, and research experience. I got those with that load but it generally req’d finding creative ways of integrating my interests and sometimes getting multiple layers of experience out of one giant project. I also had an astonishingly supportive faculty, which is why we’ve had several students (that I know of) start (and complete or are near completing) similar psych-music combos in the years since I did it.