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Degrees are for signaling. If you want to signal that you're as smart as a typical CS or Business student, pick a program they would drop out of (Math instead o
by byrneseyeview 16y ago
Degrees are for signaling. If you want to signal that you're as smart as a typical CS or Business student, pick a program they would drop out of (Math instead of CS, Economics instead of Business). If you just pick music, it's not a strong indicator of your skills.
I used to work as a recruiter, and the candidate for whom I got the most interview requests ever had a triple-major: music, physics, and math. You don't have to go that far, but if you can minor in math at a minimum, it's a good idea.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoYes. Music plus a minor or double major in X, where X is something hard. Not business -- you can pick that up in grad school if absolutely necessary; they have special graduate programs just for it. Physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, statistics, engineering.
- corin_ 16y agoThanks for the advice (and others suggesting the same thing), I think minoring in Maths is definitely something I'd consider, happens to be another area I'm interested in (though no-where near as experienced, would have to do a fair bit of pre-university learning to be ready to study it I think, having forgotten most of what I knew when I was 16)
- donw 16y agoThis made me smile a little bit; I majored in Math because I thought CS would be too easy.
- arethuza 16y agoBut this is the UK we are talking about and the university in question is Oxford - so the rules are somewhat different.
- coned88 16y agoMath is a bit easier of a degree than CS.