<p>I'm going to hopefully be admitted in the engineering college. I've heard that Cornell University is extremely hard no matter what your major is, so is it possible to have a double or triple major and still have a good gpa?</p>
<p>lol, in Engineering? Roughly impossible.</p>
<p>Minor is usually feasible for most people, but unless you have EXTREME overlap in courses between two engineering majors, it’s extremely hard to do a double major in engineering.</p>
<p>And forget a triple engineering major, unless you want to spend 8 years here.</p>
<p>Personally, I really don’t think its healthy for anyone to have a triple major.</p>
<p>Yes, it is possible to double major in engineering, but you better be a fantastic time management person and be ready to give up a few parties and meals. lol</p>
<p>At cornell, it’s possible for me to triple major in Math w/ concentration in stats, econ, and stats. I’ll have to take 5 courses a semester (I’m talking about mostly 4 credit courses with exception of distribution requirements, so at most 20 credits)</p>
<p>I’m not sure about engineering… I’m in A&S</p>
<p>One thing you’ll realize when you get to Cornell is that you’re not actually interested in what you think you are. It’s good that you’ve kept your options open for now, but you’ll probably realize that two out of three of those majors are really really boring.</p>
<p>agreed. there really is no point in triple majoring i think. you aren’t going to go into a field thats a combo of 3 majors most likely. just focus on 1 or 2. besides, like above said, most majors are VERY boring.</p>
<p>What would you want to double or triple major in? For the most part, you’ll realize that it is not worth it at all (in engineering).</p>
<p>I have several friends doubling ECE/CS; that’s the most popular double major for engineers. Another one I’ve seen is BME/CHEME. Tripling is pretty impossible though.</p>
<p>“I’ve heard that Cornell University is extremely hard no matter what your major is,”</p>
<p>this is not true. there are plenty of majors here that are very doable. PAM, AEM, A&S humanities come immediately to mind.</p>
<p>@swuster, BME isn’t an undergrad major. And ECEs have to take a ton of CS courses anyways, so might as well double major.</p>
<p>even if you could triple major, why would you choose that? it might take you five years to finish your three degrees, on a generous estimate, but you could have graduated a year earlier with two, and two years earlier with one. even if you had a full scholarship… if you like school that much just go ahead and grab your MS or start your PhD in that time.</p>
<p>don’t triple major. period. its a classic example of stretching yourself too thin. if its academics and knowledge your after (as you should be), get totally immersed in two majors.</p>
<p>The difficulty of your semester also depends on how many classes you take. If you choose to take seven classes a semester to graduate quickly you will have a really tough time. If you take five then it’s not going to be much harder, but you will take a really long time to graduate.</p>
<p>@chendrix sorry. it was actually independent major doubled with CHEME but for all intents and purposes the point of the independent major was to have a BME-like course of study.</p>
<p>tripling and even doubling probably wouldn’t help you get a job or into a grad school. you would probably do just as well with a single major.</p>
<p>Tripling makes you seem unfocused, too be honest.
There’s nothing wrong with double majoring as long as you do it for the right reasons. Difficulty depends on your majors of course.</p>
<p>triple major? nahh just thinking about majoring would make you stupid, hence, impossible for you</p>
<p>I was a double major in English and Chemistry in the Arts & Sciences college. The problem is that you have lots of course requirements for each and therefore it limits the amount of other courses you can take out of interest. Upper level science majors have lots of Math requirements. The main problem with being a double major is that this means you can take fewer courses outside your majors.</p>
<p>The whole point of a liberal arts program (as opposed to vocational school) is to concentrate but with a diverse exposure to many disciplines. Grad schools and prospective employers will be equally impressed by a physics major who takes a bunch of Russian courses as with a double major in physics and Russian.</p>
<p>^grad schools could really give a hoot as to what you do outside of your major or even outside of your research if you are a physics major. If I were a physics major, I would take as many physics courses (UG and MS/PhD) that I could while in college, screw my Liberal studies, and spent as much time outside of class in the lab as possible. The only way into physics grad school is with your name on at least one publication, maybe two.</p>