CS/Engineering Exploratory Tracks v.s. other exploratory tracks at UMass?

MomtoAndrew2018
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:15:02 +0000

As I understand, there are 8 exploratory tracks at Umass Amherst. 5 of them are open to all students. CS, Business and Engineering exploratory tracks are NOT. The are by invitation only which means students must apply to those majors in order to land on the respective exploratory tracks.

My question is this: if S wants to apply CS as his first major with the option of CS exploratory track, should he put down 1st choice as “CS” and 2nd choice as “undecided” in Common App? Or would that land him on the generic (unrestricted) exploratory tracks instead of CS exploratory track?

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