Help me choosing a major!

MYOS1634
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:25:03 +0000

Unless you apply to specific schools (like Cal Poly SLO) you won’t have to choose your major right away. So, during your first year, make sure you take 1 class in each subject that interests you and see if the college version is up your alley. (You will take 8-10 classes your first year, and will typically have 1-2 semesters of a foreign language, English and/or Freshman seminar, one social science and/or one humanity class, so you should have space for 1-2 sciences each semester).
In college, 1/3 classes will be general education classes (you choose from a list, unless your college has a “core”) and 1/3 will be entirely free, up to you. The last 1/3 is your major. So you’re totally free to take many CS/Chemistry/math classes as part of your 1/3 “free choices” without declaring a major.
If you love Biology, Chemistry, and Math equally, I’d suggest choosing either Chem or Math. There’s a glut of biology majors and their employment prospects aren’t good.