Should I Change My Major?

nanotechnology
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:26:18 +0000

If you’ve applied EA, you won’t be changing your requested major before decisions come out. Admissions are done by college, but the university doesn’t release stats for each college separately. I don’t think there would be a big difference between College of Science and Bouve, though. If you are accepted, there will be an option on your accepted student portal to request a major change. It’s quite common, and I don’t know of anyone who’s had trouble requesting a change of major after acceptance.

That said, wanting to do PA school doesn’t necessarily mean you should switch to Health Science. I don’t know a lot about PA school, but I believe it’s along the lines of med school in terms of requirements: as long as you meet the pre-requisites, it doesn’t matter what your major is. There also sometimes seems to be some misconception about what “Health Sciences” is. It’s not a hard science major like biology, but it’s more focused on aspects like patient interaction, public health, and nutrition, for example. If that’s what you’re looking for, great. However, don’t choose it just because you think it’s what PA schools want.