<p>Tufts is such a phenomenal place, and it's hard to imagine that someone hasn't tried to triple before and succeeded. Or double majored and double minored?</p>
<p>Yes, people have certainly triple-majored. You cannot do a double-major and a double-minor though. I believe you can do the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>1 major</li>
<li>1 major, 1 minor</li>
<li>2 majors, 1 minor</li>
<li>3 majors</li>
</ul>
<p>But I don't think you can have more than one minor. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>I believe you might be able to have:</p>
<ul>
<li>1 major, 2 minors</li>
</ul>
<p>Anyone?</p>
<p>here are the rules:</p>
<p>Students may not complete a minor and major in the same discipline.
Students may not be certified in more than one minor.
Students who do a minor may not double major.
All courses used in fulfillment of a minor must be taken for a letter grade.
A maximum of two courses used to fulfill a foundation, distribution or concentration requirement may be used toward fulfillment of the minor.</p>
<p>The admissions rep who spoke at my school said there were about 3 people who graduated last spring who triple majored. It's been done. Not sure if it's a sane choice.</p>
<p>No, I don't think that's accurate. There are definitely more than just a handful who triple major. I know that, for example, in the class of 2006, the IR department says 3 of its graduates triple majored -- and I am sure that the only triple majors in the school didn't all also have IR as one of them (that info is here: <a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/ir/aboutProfile.htm)%5B/url%5D">http://ase.tufts.edu/ir/aboutProfile.htm)</a>. Also, if you Google "triple major + tufts" you get way more hits than if it was that rare -- it is rare, just not as rare as that adcom rep said.</p>
<p>there are definately more than 3 ppl per year who triple major, but it's certainly not typical. I've met several people who are.</p>
<p>It's possible depending what the majors are. If there is some overlap you could do it, Political Science and Philosophy for example.</p>
<p>yeah. I wasn't really sure about the specifics of what "majoring" actually meant before I came to college - really it just means taking a certain amount of courses, sometimes specific ones. On average a department will require about nine courses, I think. Evened out, that means about one course from that department per semester for 7 semesters and one semester of 2 courses. If you take a summer course you'd never have to take two in a semester (not that that's a problem...I've taken more than one PS and Econ course in a semester). It may get difficult if you have to fill a lot of OTHER requirements, like distribution/foundation/language. But if, say, you had a bunch of APs that got rid of some of your distrib. requirements, and qualified out of a few semesters of language with a placement exam it may be much easier.</p>
<p>Oh and I think you can double count up to...four courses? So for IR and Econ, for example, there's a lot of overlap but I can only double count four courses.</p>
<p>u can double-count up to 50% of the courses.</p>
<p>Really? That sounds extreme. I know for a fact as a double-major that I was only allowed to count up to four. And either of my majors have more than eight requirements, making it less than 50%. 35% for one, in fact.</p>
<p>I personally know two triples majors. Usually they're mathematically oriented majors though such as engineering and economics, and perhaps mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>Yeah, in Political Science and Philosophy you've got to take at least 8 classes in the department. 8 out of the 10 needed to complete the major.</p>
<p>I actually have a triple major and a minor, and I'm sure it's allowed because I've talked to the deans about it to make sure. I'm majoring in IR, Music, and Russian and East European Studies and minoring in Philosophy. Only one AP credit did anything for me (got me out of a semester of English) because the others were in subjects that I'm taking anyway (humanities, social sciences, languages, etc) or not 5's (I got 4's on AP bio and AP chem so not good enough) so you could consider them insignificant. Despite this fact, I will be essentially ready to graduate after only 3 years so it's definitely doable; you just have plan it well.</p>
<p>I don't believe you</p>
<p>yeah she's crazy. she's an opera singer too ;-)</p>