<p>How much harder does it becomes for someone if you double major?</p>
<p>Triple?</p>
<p>and this is assuming that all the majors overlap a lot</p>
<p>They usually don’t overlap. Even if you think they do, there are generally policies in place to make sure they don’t.</p>
<p>They can only overlap so much such as in the core requirements then you will have to take X number of required and upper level courses in just the subject of each major which can never overlap, at least not at my school.</p>
<p>For example, at my school if you did a triple major in liberal arts, all of your core requirements will count for all three majors. But after the core you would have to take a bunch of three separate types of classes. However, if you were to major in 2 liberal arts and something in natural science there will be extra requirements since the core is different for the two different types of colleges - nat sci has more strict requirements about when you have to complete classes and in what order as well so that adds another factor.</p>
<p>If you want to go to school for more than 4 years and go to summer school at least one summer then I’m sure you can complete a triple major. And if you have a core requirement at your school and haven’t finished it yet or won’t finish it by the end of freshman year I think that triple majoring is pretty much impossible without spending a lot of money and extra time. I suppose if your core is out of the way or you don’t have one, you take a summer or two of classes and take the max credits every semester you could pull off a triple major but you will have to do some intense planning to make sure that when senior year comes around you won’t be short a class.</p>
<p>What majors were you thinking of?</p>
<p>I am a sophomore at the moment and I just switched majors and according to my planning and what courses I need to take I will be able to double major and minor (minor is required) in three years with 4 summer classes but I will be finishing all my core requirements and intro classes this coming fall. And both majors and minors are in the same college within the university. Also, I will have enough credits to be considered an upper level student therefore I can take higher level classes in the spring a little earlier than normal (my school requires that you have 60 credits in order to take upper division courses and the norm doesnt start until junior year).</p>
<p>Also, does your school allow double majors? I know a few that don’t and I know a few that don’t allow you to double major across colleges such as you can’t have a major in the business school and in the arts and sciences school at the same time. </p>
<p>There are a lot of little polices such as my not being able to take the upper level classes I need until I have a certain amount of credits and some classes only being offered at a certain time or a certain order that you have to take them in that influence if doubling or tripling is possible at your certain school.</p>
<p>If you triple major, your upper division classes (of all three majors) will probably make your semester a living hell. </p>
<p>It’ll probably take you more than 4 years to come out, even if you do some summer classes. </p>
<p>What are you trying to prove with doing 3 majors?</p>
<p>I remember a couple years back there was a basketball player on Drake? or something like that had 4 majors and played D-1 bball and he made it through</p>
<p>Its hard and honestly, the point of going to college is to specify. I wouldn’t recommend triple majoring as double majoring is hard enough. It would probably be better to get one graduate degree over the same period of time (you can double major BS/MS, which is a great way to get ahead in life - though very very hard).</p>
<p>Depending on the school and the types of requirements in place, a double major can be do-able. A triple major definitely depends on the schools – many schools will only give you two degrees, so a triple major would not be allowed (though you could take all the courses if you could fit it all into your schedule, you just wouldn’t get the third degree).</p>
<p>The overlapping depends a lot on the school and the specific major. I’m thinking of double majoring in history and German, and the history department here doesn’t have any rules against overlapping, so long as the other department doesn’t either, but I think there are other departments that have different rules. I’d suggest looking up the requirements for each area you’re considering majoring in and then trying to figure out if you could pull it off.</p>
<p>I think the most important question is to ask yourself why you feel a triple major is needed. Just for recruitment? I think that is one of the worst reasons. I think there is a misconception among a lot of people that getting more majors means you are a “better” candidate for jobs. In reality, it doesn’t prove too much. Better to pick one thing you love and excel in that field. Try to get published, present at conferences, etc.</p>
<p>I’d say that Triple majoring is very uncommon because for most people it isn’t all that beneficial. By having that much diversity in one’s education, invariably one will spread oneself too thin. Although it’s not unheard of. A professor of mine told me about a student that Quadruple Majored at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - He was doing like 30 - 40 hours each quarter - He wouldn’t even go to class, he would just take the tests and finals and do the homework - he learned everything on his own (but he special permission to do this)… I’d say a double major suffices for 99%+ of what you need to get done. A double major is needed for certain interdisciplinary stuff, such as Math and Computer Science - you want to show that you have excellent analytical skills, but practical programming skills as well. Or maybe a science with a foreign language that commonly publishes work in that language so that you could go on to do research in that science.</p>
<p>Generally, though, a single major suffices because if you want to do research, grad schools usually would like to depth - that you tackled some introductory to intermediate graduate courses and possibly did directed research with a faculty as an undergrad - both look better than having relatively superficial knowledge in two majors.</p>
<p>I’m double majoring in anthropology and history and they overlap quiet alot. :D</p>
<p>You can even quad if there’s enough overlap… but it’s still going to be hell for you ;p</p>