<p>A triple major is not going to get you in over people with an MBA, so forget that.
Also, I don’t know anyone doing a triple, but I know people with a double major plus a minor and every single one of them is spending a fifth year here, when most people who spend five years here leave with a masters. No scholarship will cover a fifth year. </p>
<p>You’re seem very sure of what you want, which you think is good, and to some extent it is. But you’re what? Seventeen? Sixteen even? I’ll admit I’m not much older. But in the two years since I was in your position, I’ve changed a lot, I have more of an idea of how the world works, and more importantly here, I know how college works. </p>
<p>You need to be open to change. I’m on my third major. This isn’t indecision. I still have the same career in mind, I’ve just figured out how I want to get there that’s best for me.</p>
<p>I thought I’d be fine with the course load once I got to college, but first semester I ended up with a C- in my major subject and a 3.0 overall. Truth is, I never needed to work in high school. Now, I do, and it took me some time to realize it. So I revamped everything for second semester. I now had a second degree that would require about 18-20 credits a semester with a 16 credit semester at the end and a 14 credit load for MCAT semester. Then, a week before second semester, the guy a lenscrafter took a picture of the inside of my eye, then told me I might have a brain tumor and sent me to an optometrist, who sent me for an MRI and that night I was inpatient at Columbia Presbyterian hospital. I left two days before I had to move in for spring semester, not with a brain tumor, thankfully, but possibly going blind. The medication they had me on, plus another condition I had left me barely able to function. Just the walks to classes alone where enough to wipe me out.I couldn’t eat. I dropped down to 14 credits and seriously considered either taking a leave of absence or transferring closer to home. But I stuck it out, dropped my original major so that now I had gone from Neuro-Phys to a laughable English major (at least among my Gemstone friends). But I finished second semester with a 3.5, therefore allowing me to stay in school. (I’m on full ride and can’t afford it otherwise) I was happy with my classes, pretty healthy, and had made possibly the best friends I’ll ever have in my life. They helped me get through it.</p>
<p>That was longer than i meant for it to be, but I wanted to bring up a few points. 1) Sometimes there are better ways to reach a goal that you’re just not seeing. (For example, I know have a better chance of getting to medical school as a non-bio major. Every doctor who knows I’m an english major has been impressed because they say that most young doctors now are not well rounded and have zero social/emotional skills. And above all I enjoy studying English) 2) Being too rigid and lofty about your goals off the bat will cause you to crumble if something unexpected happens. 3) Something unexpected will happen. 4) Your friends are more important than anything in college. They become your family. With a triple major you will not have them.</p>
<p>Let’s do some quick math if that doesn’t work for you:
You need: 30 CORE Credits. With all your AP classes, let’s assume you got out of 20 of them. 10 CORE credits, plus junior english and advanced studies. Luckily your triple major gets rid of advanced studies. So you have 13 credits to deal with. (But remember this is not necessarily the case because I don’t know what you test out of)</p>
<p>First semester you also have UNIV100 and that seminar you were talking about 4 credits, but UNIV100 has essays. </p>
<p>17 credits. </p>
<p>For a math major you need about (quick math from the site): about 64 credits
Finance seems to be about: 80 credits
Comp sci is about 60.
204 credits–32 overlap allowed (best case scenario, it may only be 18)= 172</p>
<p>172+the 17 from before is 189 *****ing credits.</p>
<p>You have 189 credits over eight semesters= 23 or 24 credits a semester. Not actually allowed.
So lets stay for a fifth year: 19 credits a semester.
Wait, you have no time for extracurriculars of any type! No one will hire you because you’ve never worked with people! Oh and lets throw in an internship! Six years.
Now you’re finally down to 16 credits a semester, a manageable load. Don’t take a single wrong class though. You better hope everything is available exactly when you need to take it.
So now you’re about 24 when you finish school and about 150,000 dollars poorer. You know what other people have when they don’t enter the business world until 24? …an MBA.</p>
<p>You have to be kidding me.</p>