Confusion about Majors

astrina
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:28:35 +0000

“I am accepted as an Economics major”
“…does it mean I will be entering as a Math major?”

Um. You enter as an Econ major, because that’s what you got accepted as. You can’t change your major before you’re a matriculated student. The admissions committee can’t read your mind or read between the lines in your essay. (Sometimes I doubt they read the essay that closely at all.) If you declared major X on the application, chances are that you’re going to get admitted as major X. Saying “I might be interested in major Y” doesn’t make it any easier for you to switch down the road.

You’re right, biology is impacted. Google or search the archives to see that that means. And it’s just my thinking, but if someone told me there are only a limited number of biology majors to be given out, I would have applied for that first. It’s easy to switch out, not so easy to get in.

And what exactly is this supposed to mean: “I was not planning on going; thus, I just choose a major that was related to business.” Did you just have some $$$ to waste on the application fee or something?