Breadth not Depth?

[ucbalumnus]

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@gibby

At most colleges, students apply as liberal arts majors and select a major during their sophomore year of college. Although colleges ask about your “intended” major, Admissions Officers understand that 50% to 70% of students change their major at least once during their 4 years of college. So, colleges DO NOT and CANNOT use whatever you write down as your “intended” major as a recruiting tool because the data doesn’t correlate to the major a student will eventually graduate with.

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<p>This is incorrect at a large number of schools which are divided into divisions which may have different levels of frosh admission selectivity by division or major, and which have internal admissions processes to transfer between different divisions or majors. In many schools, the undergraduate business major is more selective than the others for frosh admission, and/or requires an admission process to enter after enrolling at the school as an undeclared or other-major student.</p>

<p>Do not use Harvard and Yale as examples to generalize about “most [four year] colleges”.</p>