Can I change majors after the first semester?

Mwallenmd
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:11:59 +0000

If your interest is definitely in majoring in Nursing it is extremely risky being admitted to another major at a college with a direct entry Nursing Program with the intent of subsequently trying to transfer into Nursing after your first semester. In fact, I don’t even believe most direct entry Nursing Programs will even allow you to apply for transfer into Nursing after your first semester. At best this would be for your 3rd semester, and most direct entry Programs have very, very few openings for transfer students and the competition for these few slots is intense. The competition is so intense that a number of such colleges do not even accept applications for transfers into the Nursing Program from outside the college because the number of openings are so few (Univ. of Delaware is one of them). If you are really interested in Nursing you might want to consider contacting the colleges with direct entry Nursing Programs you applied to as an undecided major and ask them to change your major application interest to Nursing. Just a suggestion. I hope things work out for you. Best of luck