<p>Hey everyone... i will attend a liberal arts university and i am wondering if it is worth double-majoring...i am noticing that doublemajor has a lot of dissadvantages. besides the intensive and difficulties of courses, it does not allow you to choose many courses. i was thinking to double major in eco and cs, and in my final year i want to take a couple of elective but very important courses in eco and cs but which is impossible because i have no space available because of the double-major and some obligatory but non-related to the major courses... so what do you advice me to do: double-major whith the least required nr of courses for eco and cs, or to major in one of them with all the best courses and minor in the other one... ah yeah also tell me what do grad school consider the most, exellent scores in two majors whith normal courses, or exellent scores in one major but with very difficult courses.. please give me an opinion... thanks</p>
<p>For a while I considered double majoring, but all the recruiters that I've talked to personally have told me that they "don't give a crap about double majors", I think it's because it may dilute your knowledge. What I'm doing is just taking many electives in what I would have double majored in.</p>
<p>If you're going to grad school straight after I don't think it matters as much. Also some double majors make more sens than others like Math and Econ. Polymer science and art history on the other hand.</p>
<p>Both grad schools and employers tend to look at your courses individually, that's something you may want to take into consideration. Also employers try to find people who are interested in the job, so interning @ the NIH with 5-10 elective courses in history or Arabic might hurt your chances.</p>
<p>If your really want to double major, Eco-comp sci makes sens but in your place I would take Math-econ, it's more flexible and more graduate school econ oriented. Also, as you said, double majoring really limits your elective options, and you may be forced to take many classes you don't really like, more so than if you had a single major.</p>
<p>my 2 cents</p>
<p>I talked to my freshman advisor and she suggested that I do Econ/Math if I want to double major at all. (I was wanting to do Econ-Physics but will just take some Physics classes instead.)</p>