It’s not a competition thing for him at all. He really loves learning math and physics and feels a well rounded full CS background would be useful to him in whatever field he ends up in. This is his idea not ours, we are telling him that if he stops enjoying any of these subjects he should reconsider taking additional classes or if he ever wants to focus on one subject or picks up a new interest he can adjust his goals. Right now these are the subjects he wants to study in college. Perhaps he may veer towards another subject or interest along the way, and we do encourage him to try new things, but for now these are what he wants to focus on learning in a formal setting.
He is signing up for 1 humanities and 1 soc science this summer while he is too young in his college career to participate in formal research. He would then ‘need’ to fit in only 2 more distribution requirements before he graduates. He plans to be involved in research at his school starting in the fall and apply for formal summer REU research position after his sophomore year. He is also eligible to stay at school for a free 5th year and do intensive research and take additional grad level courses to get an MA if he chooses before graduate school.
I am not sure I fully like his plan, but feel it is is more his future advisors place to tell him no or redirect him than mine. I had just been concerned since at the moment his math and physics interests are not clearly, at least to me, related and he is soon having to pick upper level courses for his sophomore year without formal major advisors.