<p>cuke,
My parents were exactly like your parents when I went to college (yes, back when the dinosaurs walked the halls). There was only one college they would let me attend. Period. And I still had to pay for most of it. When I enrolled, they insisted on a particular major (because they were convinced that it was the ONLY major with which a kid could get into med school). So, I said, yeah, yeah, yah-da-yah-da, and went off to college. And by the end of my sophomore year when I had to declare, was in a TOTALLY different major. By this time, although they grumbled, they didn’t pull me out of college. And I got into med school anyway (though they still declared that they didn’t understand my choice of major on my graduation day). Oh, by the way, this didn’t stop when I chose a specialty to do a residency in when I was graduating from med school. My parents (and my husband’s parents, for that matter) absolutely believed that the only specialty that a “real” doctor" would undertake was surgery. Neither of us did a surgical residency. On med school graduation day, my mother said “I’m still disappointed you didn’t go into surgery.” My husband’s mother (he was an OB GYN) told all of her friends that he was “really” a surgeon"…Gyn doctors operate, too!! When I completed my fellowship in cardiology, I still hadn’t redeemed myself in my mother’s eyes…until 5 years later when I diagnosed my own father’s heart attack over the phone when his doctor missed it.</p>
<p>So, take home message: go to the college you want. Nod your head up and down if they ask if you plan to major in Econ. Then go there, take the core, and figure out what you want to do. I bet dollars to donuts that they won’t pull you out if you change your major. </p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>