I'm a senior undergrad and just got an offer in capital markets at a NY BB. At the end of this semester, I will have completed all the courses necessary for my first major and would only need to take two more classes to get a second major (a lot of overlap with the first major). However, I'm not really interested in the second major and would love to just not pursue it, take 4 classes just for fun and live it up in my last semester of college. I also think that I can protect my GPA this way by taking the easiest classes/teachers possible, instead of risking non-A's on the second-major classes (although I'm confident if I tried, I would get A's).
Would the marginal benefit of the second major for business school applications a couple years down the line outweigh the marginal cost of the effort and stress needed to excel in the classes and opportunity cost of a fun final semester?
Basically, is dropping the second major a retarded move for b-school / later career perspectives?
Background: - Semi-target public undergrad b-school - 3.9 gpa - Minor in biology
have fun dude... your GPA will get you where you want to go and you have the offer in hand... life's good, get drunk
drink up wahoo. (nailed it!)
Marginal benefit is near zero. Do what will give you the highest GPA and get wasted.
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if you already have an offer at a BB then certainly fuck it...
This is a great topic for one of MBA essays... Just sayin': instead of fucking around you decided to take it up the ass from school for one last time and rock out being a double major.
Obviously you want to hear, "fuck it" answers, hence I am playing devil's advocate. Do you have any serious outside of academia obligations like part-time job or athletics? If not, then I don't see why you cannot just take 2 hard and 2 easy classes and finish with A's.
When you look back on this situation when you are having your quarter-life crisis at age 25 after a few years of working too many hours in an office environment, you will look back and hate yourself if you do some stupid second major when you already have a BB offer. Go live it up your last semester senior year, don't regret it. To 'The Phantom' if original poster is gunning for business school already, he/she can just still take easy classes and get involved in some fun hobby/volunteering/sports, etc.
The Phantom raises an interesting point. Depends on how bad you want that second major. It's not going to help job-wise since you already landed a sweet offer, but it could be a personal pride thing.
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