Deciding your Major on your application

frutiaspice
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:10:14 +0000

I think it depends on the school.

Some schools know that you’ll most likely change majors and just want to gauge what you’re currently most interested in (Like MIT). If you’re undecided, then put that.

Other schools have some majors where it’s really hard to transfer in and if you think you’re somewhat interested in it, then I would put that down, unless you think it’ll hurt your chances of admission. ( like JHU’s biomedical engineering…they allow an alternate major though so doesn’t hurt chances as well as CMU’s computer science…same as JHU)

And yet other schools require majors, where you pick one and basically stick with it once you’re in college. Here, if you pick undecided, it’ll be hurtful for you because it’s hard to get into a department once you’re there and you may end up with something you don’t like. (UCs does this)