<p>Good points all noimagination - thanks. But, I didn’t mean that he would hope for epiphany to lead him to major or I expected him to randomly take up history major etc. The history comment was more in response to the mention of the excellent history prof and having some wriggle room to try out some other classes thanks to the U’s generous AP credit policy. </p>
<p>My S is somewhat familiar w/ the UMN math dept and did a research project this summer. While the research was interesting and he really liked the prof, he utterly hates the formal write up process, so I can’t imagine him doing more than an undergrad math major. That’s why I asked the original question re CLA vs CSE for flexibility (thankfully posters on here saved us from that foolish notion). </p>
<p>Thanks for the good advice to talk to some of the depts and post in the math/Csci forum. He really likes what he’s seen of the U so far and would likely go there if he got into the honors program. Hopefully he will score well enough on upcoming tests to be in the running for that (?). </p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>