What do you think about the pros of such a triple major? Cons? Career options? Good idea? Bad idea?
I will be able to graduate in four years with this triple major, and my plan is to go to graduate school.
No real career advantage in a triple major. Jobs will be mainly driven by your chosen field of employment and how well you have done at school. I do believe that having some quantitative background will help open more job prospects, and history majors who want to go into some aspect of business, especially in the financial sector, are well served to take quantitatively based classes, but a double major is not required.
Depending on the major requirements at a given school, the courses required to graduate with given majors will likely limit courses in other areas that you might want to take if you triple or even double major. College should be a time to explore many areas intellectually, both to broaden your horizons and possibly find something else you are more interested in.
I can’t see the point of this and the scheduling could be a real nightmare. While you say you can graduate on time with three majors, I wonder if that is really possible. Maybe there is time to get in the required number of courses, but what happens when required courses for each major are offered at exactly the same time? With three majors, I can definitely see something like this happening. I question whether this is really doable.
You know that you can take courses in a subject without it being an official major.
I think looking at creative preplanned combinations might be better, like econometrics and history will give you a more math-focused Econ, or International Relations and math which will combine parts of history and econ. Don’t box yourself into a triple major but maybe a major and double minor. Liberal Arts schools do a great job of mixing and matching multiple majors or multiple minors.
^^These. Nobody in the world cares more about double majors / major-minors than HS students.
In July you were shopping for info on “Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Double Major in Environmental Science or Minors?” and “History and Mathematics Double Major”
This says to me a student who should be putting “undeclared” down! This is the mercy of the US system. All of your posts have been in the Northeastern sub-forum- and luckily for you their Explore program looks like a great fit:
It looks to me like you are still in HS and this is at least your third post about if a different double or triple major is a good idea. STOP. You are getting too far ahead of yourself. Here are a few comments:
–First get to college. Take some general ed requirements and some classes in different areas of interest. You will get a better idea where your interests and aptitudes lie.
–Depending on the college and the general ed requirements , what AP/IB/dual enrollment credits are accepted etc. you may or may not have room in your schedule to double or triple major.
–You may find yourself really drawn into one major and may choose to do research with a professor or some other in-depth study in that area instead of having multiple majors. Give yourself the flexibility to follow your interests once you figure things out more.
–Allow for the possibility of finding an area of interest that you don’t even know about yet. My D took an unexpected minor junior year just out of interest/fun which definitely added to her college expereince.
–Graduate school will not care about triple majors. Likely they will be more interested in depth of work (ex. did you do research, take a number of upper level courses, work with a professor etc.) in your intended field of study.
Please refrain from posting different versions of this same question moving forward. It is a question you should not answer with any degree of certainty while you are in HS.
In most cases, choosing a major in one subject and out-of-major elective courses in other subjects that support your interests and goals can achieve what you want without as much box-checking needed for multiple majors.
For example, if you goal is to go into quantitative finance or PhD study in economics or finance, math, statistics, and economics are an obvious combination, but a major in one with specific electives in the other(s) will do for that.
You don’t have to double or triple major to take classes in various areas…You might want to major in Economics with a concentration in Quantitative Skills and then take elective classes in History