Hello, I am a prospective first year student at Purdue. I would be coming in with about 70 credits completed from dual credit or AP classes, so I sat down and planned my schedule for Purdue so that I can get the most out of my education. I have plotted all of the classes I would need to take, and I can fit all of the classes required for me to graduate with a CS, Mathematics, and Statistics degree with about 30 extra credits free for electives. However, I am not sure how I would go about getting multiple majors from the get-go. I have only seen information about how to request a second major once already in a specific college/department, and this poses a slight problem for me, since, for example, the CS department says that you must be able to complete your CS degree within 5 semesters of your approval as a multi-degree student, and I am hoping to be a multi-degree student when I first enroll.
Do any of you know how I should go about getting multiple majors/degrees? I’ve heard you are supposed to apply to the major that is the most competitive first and then worry about the rest later, would that mean applying as a CS student primarily and then just taking all the required classes and waiting until my junior year to ask to get multiple majors? It just makes me feel antsy to leave it up in the air for a few years and hope they accept my classes as credit for other departments.