Is this practice particularly frowned upon?

Cervantes
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:40:08 +0000

I know a good friend like Tzar09’s “mr chemistry” except instead of switching from chem to poli sci, he switched to Operations Research. He’s now at a top 5 university. You can do it, but it won’t particularly help you in the admissions process. I don’t think colleges really care your major of choice and for those that do they make you bound to the major or at least the college within the major is in. So, if this were Penn for instance and you applied saying you wanted to major in Poli Sci, you can’t do an about face and say you want to major in business at Wharton. There’s no problem saying you are interested in poli sci if you’re not, but I doubt any real advantage will be conferred considering colleges know most students change their choice of major.