Question on Selecting a Yale Major

HMS09
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:47:50 +0000

I’m a little confused. It seems that Yale students select a major during sophomore year, but it also seems that this decision is not entirely in their hands. Each department only lets in a certain number of students for each of its majors…so what happens if a student isn’t accepted into the major of their choice? Do they simply wait until grad school to pursue their actual major?