<p>Okay, so I am in community college right now because times are rough, but its not like i did well in high school. I am really upset and sad about the fact that I don't get a freshmen dorm experience where you get to meet new people and such. Lots of people laugh, but I want to get out of college with 5 degrees, I am going to school right now for my History, English and Journalism and I want to transfer to a CAL state or UC once I am done with those I want to apply to Stanford, Oregon or CALPOLYSLO for an enviornmental degree and once I am done with that I want to go to a school I have not picked yet for a masters in psychology. Now the questions I ask are: How hard will it be to get into a school after i graduated college already? Will I have to go back to community college and re transfer or can I just apply as if I am applying straight out of high school? The age I am not worried about because I graduated from high school early but when i do go go for my enviornmental degree at the different school will i get to be a freshmen and live on campus and have that experience? Oh and for reference there will hopefully be no times in between schooling. I am hoping to just go straight from school to school, and I am currently taking classes at community college that will help with all the degrees I want to get so can they also transfer over? or will i have to start over?</p>
<p>help, please and thank you</p>
<p>get all of those degrees and THEN think about graduate school.</p>
<p>lots of people say in their freshman year that they want to go to grad school, but by senior year, only a handful of people REALLY do. psychology is an especially challenging field to go to graduate school in.</p>
<p>I’d like to give you some motherly advice, slow down and deal with one task at a time rather than trying to plan the next 9+ years out right now. Your first goal is to do great in CC so that you can transfer to a CSU or UC.</p>
<p>I’m a little confused by your post, so correct me I’ve interpreted something incorrectly. First, I’m assuming that you’re currently at a CA CC. If that’s true, you should make sure you take all of the coursework you need to transfer smoothly over to a 4-yr CA public; I’d advise posting on the UC subforum if you have any questions about that. About having 3 majors for your AA degree, I’m not even sure if that’s possible, but I do know that it’s unnecessary. Once you get a 4 yr degree, your AA is pretty much irrelevant. Your main goals in CC should be to get used to college work, take a wide range of courses to fulfill requirements and to see what else you might be interested in.</p>
<p>Next, why not get your environmental degree at the CSU/UC, why do you want to go on to S, OR or CalPolySLO for a second UG degree? I haven’t checked the websites at the other schools, but you can’t get a second bachelor’s at S:</p>
<p>[Eligibility</a> & Credit Transfer : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/credit.html]Eligibility”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/credit.html)</p>
<p>If you know the direction you are headed, the usual tract is to apply for grad school after your bachelor’s degree. The people that go back for a second UG degree usually do so because they are entering a very different field. Also, grad degrees are usually financially supported by teaching or research assistantships, while UG is not.</p>
<p>Note that in addition to the posts above, many top colleges won’t even allow you to apply to them to complete a second degree if you didn’t go there for your first one. I’d highly suggest focusing a little bit.</p>
<p>I have heard of only one person earning 5 degrees and that was at Texas A&M. AND, they were Mensa and a certified genius. Judging from your place at community college you are not in that situation. I would definitely speak to a career counselor and get your priorities straight because if you go to college for that long and earn that many degrees you’ll be in debt until you’re 80.</p>
<p>thank you for all your help, whether I am a genius or not is rather irreverent, but yes, my mother told me to slow down and get my priority’s straight, what people do not realize is that they are, this has been my goal in life since i was 7 and no i am not exaggerating, so obviously school is my priority. I have everything planned out, and a step by step process, with nothing to stress about except getting good grades. I do not mean to be rude or stubborn, but these are my goals and yes i am stubborn enough to figure out a way to achieve them, all of them. I would just like to know if it is possible to continue credits or if I need to start over every time i want to get a new degree? if so should i just apply to an overall good school like Berkeley or Stanford so rather then going to different schools for their different programs, since i will be there the entire time?</p>
<p>“whether I am a genius or not is rather irreverent”
Your plan is irreverent. You meant irrelevant.</p>
<p>What is your motivation for this? Where are you going to get all that money from? Financial aid for more undergraduate degrees is much more limited after the first B.A… Case Western is the only school that I’ve seen that advertises that students can triple major.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure you could fulfill your interests in most of these things by MINORING in them rather than doing the full ten course major.</p>
<p>see i think what i am going to do is double major in history and English with a minor in journalism and then a double major in enviornmental and psychology then go to for my masters in psychology because it would be more easy for schools that way, like i said its just something i’ve always wanted to do, and i don’t perceive it to be impossible</p>
<p>why don’t you just go to an interdisciplinary program and do all of those things under ONE DEGREE? or at least two degrees. what we’re trying to say here is that your current plan is ridiculous and not to mention, ridiculously expensive. </p>
<p>you need to focus and do some growing up. yes, we all had childhood dreams, but this is the real world and this is your life. unless you’re willing to throw away tens of thousands of dollars, this is just not feasible. </p>
<p>you have not given us a real reason for wanting to do all of this, and “i’ve always wanted to do this” is NOT a real reason. it’s the same thought pattern behind getting a Masters. there has to be a reason why you’re going, and grad schools have heard that line before.</p>
<p>i thank you for all of your help, i’m determined to do something and i am not going to throw away what i want to do with my life because a few people don’t think its sensible. i do want to say that you have all been a wonderful help and i thank you for each and every one of your individual input</p>
<p>Listen, we KNOW the college game. I come from a top prep boarding school where we had an entire college guidance department that placed my entire senior class in Ivy league and top liberal arts colleges. I myself am currently attending a most selective school. I did all of the crap: portfolios, recommendations, didn’t sleep in order to get that stellar GPA, and worked my butt off. The fact is that I played the game and now I will get my degree and begin a career that will hopefully pay off the MOUNTAIN of debt I am accumulating. What you are talking about is ridiculous and I recommend that you get off this website and leave it to people who actually understand what they are doing. You may succeed in being the most educated person in the world and you can hang your degrees on your wall, but in the end they will be pieces of paper and your contribution to the world will be nothing but bills upon bills of student loans.</p>
<p>“You may succeed in being the most educated person in the world and you can hang your degrees on your wall, but in the end they will be pieces of paper and your contribution to the world will be nothing but bills upon bills of student loans.”</p>
<p>DING<em>DING</em>DING!</p>
<p>Kiddo, what’s wrong with double or triple majoring and then getting a grad degree? Chasing FIVE undergraduate degrees is a juvenile, short-sighted, immature waste of time, money, and energy. There is nothing you can do with 5 bachelors degrees that you cannot do with 3. You’re passionate about additional subjects? Get a library card. Hell, you could even triple major, modifying 2 of those degrees to include those additional 2 subjects.</p>
<p>Do you have a lot of money saved for all of these schools? Financial aid is unlikely to fund your plan.</p>
<p>You may say what you like, but the reason i was on this website was because i was asking for advice from people that do know what they are talking about, about college, no need to get personal, like i said thank you for all of your time and opinions.</p>
<p>oh, and like i said, i graduated early, this much school would be completed by at very most age 25, so i will have plenty of time to do good things for the world, in fact i plan on making a very substantial positive effect on the world and comments like that are nothing but more motivation to do even more for the world and get this done</p>
<p>but there is nothing wrong with double majoring. that is what i was asking, should i double major in history and English and then double major in psychology and enviornmental studies,that would probably make it a lot more easy to get from a good liberal arts college to a good science college and that would only mean two college switches</p>
<p>Here, I have your plan all figured out for you…</p>
<p>1) Go to a flagship state school.
2) Double major in two or three majors that are closely related. Yours seem pretty spread out but Journalism and English could go together. One of these two majors should be the one you want to get your Masters in.
3) Go to grad school for your masters.
4) At this point reevaluate whether or not you want to go back to school and get TWO more bachelors degrees. You’ll probably say “eff that” to going back to undergrad work but you’ll have a better perspective by this time.
5) If you decide you still want to go back to school then talk to either the college you got your original undergrad degrees at or the college you got your graduate degrees at. These two colleges are likely the only ones that will allow you to get re-enroll for undergraduate study. Other colleges out there will let you but since you’re talking about places like Stanford I don’t think you want to go to these other colleges that specialize in adult education.
6) Somewhere during the above, get a job, because you’re eventually going to have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars off in debt.
7) ???
8) Profit!</p>