<p>I know you can double major at Cornell and even have a third major, but my question was, can you have two majors and one minor? Say I want to major in government and religious studies, can I then minor in international relations. Based on Cornell's website, the government major looks to me as if they mixed the four components of political science with international relations. In fact, I don't really understand the government major at Cornell. The website says that the government major includes international relations, but at the same time you can minor in international relations?</p>
<p>Why worry about something that employers and graduate professional schools don’t care about? If you like a subject matter, take courses. No one cares if you label it a “minor” or not.</p>
<p>Really</p>
<p>^that.</p>
<p>Just take all the classes that interest you.</p>
<p>Sorry I should have been clearer in my question. As a matter of fact, I am interested in all of those things! But I just wanted to know if Cornell would allow me to double major and then have a minor.</p>
<p>There is no restriction of double majoring with a minor. I know someone who is doing that.</p>
<p>@johnny05 Thanks! That answers my question. :)</p>
<p>I’m a triple major and triple minor.</p>
<p>Saugus, lol…good one</p>
<p>Yes, there is no restriction, I am one. </p>
<p>However, do check the A&S handbook to make sure there no conflicts with your chosen majors and minors (I know for a fact that Engineering doesn’t allow some combinations of majors and minors).</p>
<p>^^
I’m serious. If I really wanted to, I could have quintuple majored.</p>
<p>There’s a guy who successfully completed eight majors.</p>
<p>There are no restrictions on the amount classes you take. That is controlled by how many credits you’d be willing to take per semester (the max is 20ish for normal people) and in how many years you want to graduate.</p>
<p>Is you configuration of majors/minors doable with <20 credits a semester in 8 semesters? Probably not, but maybe-- you would have to look up the class requirements for each.</p>
<p>and you can always stay longer than 4 years. If you pay, my guess is that they’ll let you stay as long as you want.</p>
<p>You can stay at Cornell for as long as you give them money. However, $30k/semester is a lot. Plus, your financial package will only cover the first 8 semesters.</p>
<p>Is it that unreasonable to double major then? How successful are people at graduating in four years while double majoring? Couldn’t I also take summer classes to earn credits that would count towards my major?</p>
<p>On the following pages you can find course requirements for the [Government</a> major](<a href=“http://government.arts.cornell.edu/undergraduate/program/]Government”>http://government.arts.cornell.edu/undergraduate/program/) and for the [International</a> relations minor](<a href=“http://courses.cornell.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=12&poid=3394]International”>Departments & Fields of Study: International Relations Minor| - Cornell University - Acalog ACMS™). I’m gonna try to construct a schedule with lots of overlap; I’ll post back in a bit.</p>
<p>I found tons of overlap for the Government major and international relations minor. Note that the classes I put together are classes you could take if you wanted to minimize classes in your schedule. I highly suggest that you take classes that you think you’ll enjoy rather than classes you think you need to take to get your minor. </p>
<p>This is a potential courseload for completion of the minor. I used option 2:</p>
<p>Econ 1110–>G1 Core(AEM 2300)
G2 Core: Govt 1817 (major req 1)
G2 Elective: Govt 1313 (major req 1)
G3 Core: 3000 level Govt Course(major req 3)
G4 Core: Anthr 1400
2 x G3/G4 Electives: Could count as 2 major electives</p>
<p>Wow @Condenser thanks for looking into this! I am looking through the websites for the majors and minors I am interested in now thanks.</p>
<p>you can double major and then minor in IR as the OP plans. many of the required courses overlap or you can find a course that satisfies both - but you are going to have to plan for it.
And you can still take Wines and Personal Finance your senior year.</p>
<p>Double major & a minor is possible, but it brings up the question of how much time you want to sacrifice from your social life.
After all, more classes mean more time set aside for doing work and studying.</p>
<p>From my point of view, Cornell tuition is pretty absurd (since I don’t receive any FA) for the education it provides.
I’ve been here for 2.5 years now, and I would describe most of the professors as god awful.
However, I still believe that the $60k/yr tuition is still worth it because of the people you go to school with.
You meet a lot of people and build up quite the connections.
For example, I got a paid internship at Google over the summer through the connections I made at Cornell.</p>
<p>My point is… yes, education-side of college is important, but you shouldn’t devote 100% of your time there.
The world isn’t a meritocracy, and sometimes, people with connections are much more favored.</p>
<p>^Was it a CS internship? Most of my CS professors have been really good and a couple were lackluster.</p>
<p>To OP: It is most likely possible with only taking ≤18 credits a semester, actually, if you are smart at scheduling. That would mean that you don’t get to take a lot of “fun” random classes, but then again you would probably think the major/minor classes are fun if you’re interested in them.</p>