Drop the minor? Need major advice please! Forum

[rst13232]

I'm doing a fifth year to finish a few requirements and I am unable to complete my final course for my philosophy minor. I really cannot delay graduation again.
I'm really debating whether or not to keep the minor:

Come a long way with it, although I am really unhappy with the department. I realized that I basically took the only two continental philosophy courses after entering the dept in second year, continental phil groups were shrinking anyway in the dept, and I absolutely cannot stand analytic philosophy. I started with it as a major and changed it to my minor last year. The grade deflation is crazy: my philosophy grades are all A-'s except one B- and one non-punitive withdrawal. I seriously want to beat the shit out of myself when I realize that if I drop this minor, I could have prevented all these A-s, B-, and W in the first place. I wouldn't have to bust my behind now to keep increasing the GPA. Friends told me of the hard A- ceiling in the philosophy dept, and as a first year, yes I did think I was a special snowflake, and yes I did think I could do well with it! I realize more and more how useless this minor is. Yet I have never stopped something I've worked for for this long and it feels horrible.

AND HERE IS THE THING: I am finally doing really well prepping for the LSAT in December, spent all summer getting LG to -0 and am using the last few months to tighten RC and LR, I am writing thesis for my double major, and this is the final year to get my GPA up. So I know I have more than enough to do already, and this one course will occupy so much of my time for the faint hope of an A-.

questions:

will top schools care if i drop this minor, now especially? i am applying in autumn 2015/next cycle to HSCCN and a few others in the lower T14. The minor will basically be deleted and my double majors will show. But will schools still get a quitter vibe?

my minor doesn't require that many courses, so I could say that the previous phil courses were out of interest. how do I explain the non-punitive W? Or that the phil courses are not clustered together but distributed quite evenly for the past four years?

dept told me i could probably find an online course equivalent and after i take it they could just add the transfer credit, but this means I would have to apply for admission to that other university just for this one course AND get permission from my university through the faculty, and have another transcript, and all sorts of craziness particularly this semester during LSAT crunch time. And I have no idea what the level of difficulty of the course in that university is. Is this worth it?

Is a 4.0 in my last year more preferable to adcomms than finishing this philosophy minor? I have never had an annual 4.0 yet, just a semester 4.0.

I hope I don't sound like a lazy moron, I really would do anything to finish what I started if I didn't have so many other simultaneous priorities.

[whitespider]

Drop the minor if it'll help you keep your grades up. Schools won't care or even notice.

It'll just look like you liked Philosophy and took some classes.

[LoganCouture]

I think you're overthinking it. AFAIK schools don't care about minors at all.

[hillz]

I wouldn't worry about it - just drop. Focus on the LSAT and keeping grades up, and you're golden. I understand why you're asking since you've worked hard and it sucks to have to give up the minor, but things like this happen and I doubt schools are going to care one bit.

[McAvoy]

Not gonna read that but minors don't matter in any way, to anyone

[ThePlanMan]

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[HYSorBust3]

Only thing that matters is GPA. No one gives a shit about minors.

[SPerez]

Not gonna read that but minors don't matter in any way, to anyone

This. It's right there in the name - MINOR.

Dean Perez
Texas Tech University School of Law

[Hand]

I absolutely cannot stand analytic philosophy.

If you just want to throw meaningless, trivial or incoherent yet deep-sounding nonsense around, hit up the English dept, you should be able to rock it there