Opinion on decision

mathmom
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:32:10 +0000

As long as both schools have a wide choice of majors and a potential major isn’t much better at one school than the other, I don’t see what being undecided has to do with anything. She should look at requirements for potential majors at both schools, and the gen ed requirements and see if she’s likely to get into trouble with sequencing if she doesn’t get started on a major freshman year.

Usually though freshman year can be devoted to taking a few intro courses in potential majors and getting a couple of gen eds out of the way. By the end of my freshman year I knew I wasn’t going to major in anything at all similar to what I had started off thinking I’d do, but it really didn’t matter. The course that made me realize what I wanted to do was a second term freshman seminar that didn’t even count for the major, but I had no problem fitting in all the courses I needed in three years.