<p>D is finishing her second year of college, majoring in philosophy. She thinks she may want to go to law school. Her school does not have minors but just recently made a math minor possible. She has been working on that this semester while finishing up the required classes for her major. Her math professor pointed out to her that is she went to summer school this summer she would have enough time to get in all the coursework for a math major.</p>
<p>If she does this she would be taking three upper level math classes for two semesters and two for the other two semesters, plus writing her senior thesis in philosophy. </p>
<p>Is this idea crazy? She asked what I would do and I said "Shoot myself?". I minored in math and was at the end of my rope and swinging from the knot at the end. She thinks the math would be a backup plan in case law school plans don't come together the way she hopes. Any of you math people out there that took a lot at the same time?</p>
<p>Let me get this straight:
For a math minor, she would need to take: 3+3 +2+2? A total of 10? Wow! Harvard only requires that many for a math major! I’d never suggest for anyone that they take 3 math classes per term. The psets would kill them (S majored in math).</p>
<p>zoey,
If your D’s goal is Law school, getting an “extra” major is not going to help her. It might even hurt her if her GPA suffers as a result of unsurmountable amount of work.</p>
<p>If she is a philosophy major with “mathy mind”, she’ll probably do great on LSAT.</p>
<p>So, how many would she need for the minor? Can she also double-count? Some philosophy courses, such as logic, often count for credit as math courses. </p>
<p>If she is really set on going to Law school then I agree that she needs to protect her GPA. If not, then the combination of philosophy and math is a great one.</p>