The Advantages/Disadvantaged of Double or Triple Majoring

<p>What school do you go to?</p>

<p>University of Washington.</p>

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Sagar, csee will take up so much of your time that, unless you're extremely good with your time management, you'd do best to double major in something a little less involved than math.

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While I generally agree that people don't anticipate the real difficulty of a double major, I think EECS and math is a pretty natural combo, at least at MIT. Before triple-majoring was outlawed (which I think was my freshman year -- I'm a senior now), EECS/math/physics was known as "the holy trinity" and was by far the most common triple at MIT. :)</p>

<p>Probably depends on a given school's curriculum in each subject area as well as the school's specific policies for multiple majors.</p>

<p>True... knowing the way ee and math are structured at ucsd, it's quite difficult to juggle the two. Likely more integrated at MIT if it's that common.</p>

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<p>What about and English and psychology double major? And then multiple language minors/certificates on the side. Would that be overkill?</p>

<p>Do employers make a huge distinction between a double major/degree and a major-minor? </p>

<p>What about grad schools?</p>

<p>I don't know, but I've heard many times your number of majors means nothing to employers. What you learned from them, yes, but a double major has no advantage over a plain old major.</p>

<p>how about history and pre-med?</p>

<p>pre-med isn't a major...it's a set of courses (1 year of chem, 1 year of o-chem, etc) that you take in addition to your major. plenty of history majors are premed...as are many bio, chem, physics, math, english, polisci, etc etc.</p>

<p>you can major in anything and be a premed.</p>

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