<p>I know that some schools will "force" you to graduate once you reach x amount of hours. My S will finish his freshman year as a senior. I'm wondering if he'll be able to continue at Rice for all 8 semesters regardless of his status.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I have never heard of this happening. Your S will be fine and likely have a relaxed and great senior year.</p>
<p>^ Well, I’m not sure about relaxed as he plans to double or triple major, including a 134 credit hour engineering major :-).</p>
<p>I have emailed the registrar for more info, but thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>Might want to temper his expectations a little bit - depending on the second major, it’s nearly impossible to <em>double</em>-major with bioe (which is 134 credit hours). Several of those credits refer to “1-hour” lab classes that actually last for 6 hours of the day. I tried doubling in political science but there were too many schedule conflicts with afternoon labs & seminars - the only successful double-majors I know were in English and German, or took an extra year.</p>
<p>^ oh boy! 6 hour labs may indeed put a damper on his plans. I’ll have to talk to him soon, as I know that one of his BIOE classes he is taking now can double as a class in his other intended major. I’m not sure which one he has designated it as though.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible, especially with a lot of AP credit. I know a CAAM/ChemE major, a Civil E/Asian Studies/History major.</p>
<p>It is challenging, but doable. Unless your S has a post-grad plan involving the second major, I don’t know if it is worth putting in the extra effort.</p>
<p>CAAM is a relatively course-light major that has a lot of overlapping classes with CHBE, while Asian Studies & History overlap significantly as well (while the CIVE courseload is also relatively).</p>
<p>Yes, my S definitely has plans of post-grad studies in his second major (which will actually be a dual degree). The only purpose of the third major is that he’ll probably take enough classes for it anyway… but we’ll see how reality works out over time :-)</p>