<p>I face a bit of a quandry. Right now, I'm a sophomore at PLU (a tiny, expensive college in the Northwest, for the uninitiated). Because I brought a bunch of transfer credit with me, I have about 20 credits left to run on a Poli Sci major, and 28 on an Econ major. My General Education requirements are all but met, and right now, I'm on track to graduate with plenty of credits to spare in the spring of 2008. </p>
<p>My dilemma is this: My esteemed institution of higher learning <em>sarcasm, anyone?</em> requires 128 credits to graduate. I'll be a double major with about 95 credits. This leaves over 30 credit hours blank. During this time, I could easily major in history as well (20 credits left) or I could minor in statistics and something else. </p>
<p>I did check out the concurrent attainment restrictions and departmental residency requirements, and these plans both seem to fly.</p>
<p>Which begs the question: In the grand scheme of things, which is more useful? Three majors in Poli Sci, Econ, and History, or two majors and two minors? </p>
<p>(Please note, I do realize it's hard to make an informed judgement without any of my career plans, but seeing as I don't have any yet, it'd be rather difficult to give them to you. I'm just looking for a general heads up.)</p>
<p>I would encourage you to use those credits to develop a different set of skills than those which are useful for history, poly sci, economics. These skills (or skill) should probably be more technical given your current double major. They could be math or computer skills. They could be langauge skills. They could be in some type of accounting or business area. There is nothing to be gained by having more than two majors and some would argue that one major is quite sufficient. Since you don't know your career plans expand your possible choices.</p>
<p>Figuring out what your career path and plans are is your best bet. Really think about what you want to do, at least over the four or so years after you get you BA. Perhaps developing a different skill set, coming from something such as math, computer science, stats, philosophy, english, a foreign language, might be your best bet.</p>
<p>It's very hard to establish what the use of something is if you don't know what you want to use it for. From subjects similar to what you are already familiar with, you would most likely just get knowledge of the new subject areas. You probably already know how to study, do research, write papers, read. If you do something like History, you would be doing a lot of these things some more. If you did something like math, it would be much different. If you do English, it would be quite different.</p>
<p>I don't know what helpful advice I can give you besides think of what you want out of your studies. Perhaps you want to go to law school, so something very logical, such as English, math, philosophy or physics would help your thinking. Perhaps you love Portugese and want to use your remaining units in something "just for fun." Think about what you want out of your time and money, and act accordingly.</p>