Major change doubt!

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Hello guys,
I am a competitive applicant, and have got phenomenal admits till now. 100% strike rate. I hope to get more in these coming days. But I have a PROBLEM.
I applied for mechanical engineering everywhere. Now, I wish to explore business not engineering. Is there any chance I can change major after getting admits from Engineering to business in these schools where I hope to get admits from — UCLA, UCSD, UCB, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, University of Washington, UFL(I’m in).
Ik getting into these schools is tough. But even If I get in by any chance…I would love to know if I can change my major from Engineering to business immediately after acceptance ??

Thank you so much!!

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Well, Harvard and Yale have no business major, so there’s that. And neither requires a major to be declared before sophomore year

Cornell would require an internal transfer no earlier than the fall of your sophomore year; you can’t just switch after acceptance; I suspect the same is true for the publics you’ve listed, but I’ll defer to others.

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Yes, you can. Many students change majors during college so it is perfectly normal to change majors while in college(even ivy leagues).

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It will be a hard shift at Cornell because Dyson is extremely competitive. As far as I know you will not be able to request the change until Fall of sophomore year. If you are unsuccessful in transferring to business, you could consider majoring in ORIE and doing a business minor. You won’t officially declare your major in engineering at Cornell until second semester sophomore year.

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UCLA doesn’t have a business major. Do you mean business economics?

For UCB, the process of changing majors to business (Haas undergraduate major) is fairly involved and is NOT GUARANTEED. You can apply to Haas once, during your sophomore or junior year. You would need to make progress in your current major, and you would need a backup plan in case you didn’t get into Haas. Continuing UC Berkeley Students - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas

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What about UCs ?
@Gumbymom @lkg4answers

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What about UCSD ?

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UCSD offers business economics, like UCLA.

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Switching Majors is not a problem as long as it’s available.

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Your Major is available

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For UW’s Foster School of Business, if you did not apply to Foster in your original application, you would need to apply for admission as a continuing student. It is capacity constrained and the application process is fairly involved (similar to UCB’s). I don’t personally know how competitive it is, but it is definitely not guaranteed, and you would need a backup plan. Standard Admission | Foster School of Business

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UCLA’s Business Econ major is impacted. You need to complete major Pre-major requirements before declaring.

https://economics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/current-students/majors-and-minors/business-economics

UCSD Business Econ change of major: B.S. in Business Economics

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What about international studies - business

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It sounds like you’re not quite sure what you want to do in business. What made you want to change from Engineering to Business?

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I urge you to use more caution in your word choice. This is not true at all colleges. Therefore it should be researched at each school in consideration.

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This

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This

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And, I meant most schools allow changing majors.

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My daughter had to stop a couple of colleges after they wouldn’t let her switch from economics to business after acceptance.

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But don’t they declare their major in by their sophomore year of college?