<p>The problem about my college search is that I still don’t know what field of study I want to enter. Some of my friends who are older than I am say to just apply to a school that is good for everything. But I probably have to choose a major because ‘undecided’ looks worse? And once I get into a college, if I want to switch majors, I might not be able to…so I’ll be stuck there? But even if I can switch majors, won’t I be behind in my credits?</p>
<p>sorry about my noob questions, but I’ve been puzzled for quite a while.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school. For some schools, it’s relatively easy to switch majors, whereas at others (Berkeley), it’s not so easy.</p>
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<p>Depends. For most schools, you have to complete some sort of core curriculum and it’s usually during this time that you decide what you want to major in. Now if you decide to switch majors in your junior or senior year, you’ll probably be behind, but if you switch majors your freshmen or sophomore year, you shouldn’t be too far behind, maybe a class or two off.</p>
<p>plus, marking undecided definitely does not look bad. unless, of course, your activities are heavily focused in one area…marking a major in said area could work to your advantage. otherwise, plenty of applicants mark undecided.</p>
<p>really? i don’t know anyone from last year who marked undecided. i mean, if i were an admissions officer, i’d be afraid that if accepted, the student would try to get into a harder major from an easier one.</p>
<p>Adcoms know better than most students that students often change majors several times before Jr year no matter what they think they are going to major in when they entered…</p>
<p>I’m agreeing with the people that posted saying a lot of people do put undecided, however I’m also agreeing with the person stating that it is beneficial to declare a major. If you aren’t a shoe-in for a school, and they were picking the last few who’d recieve acceptance letters, then they’d award one to the person who had declared a major that is under represented in their school rather than to the person who was undecided.</p>
<p>On the other side of the same coin, however, if one declares a major that is over-represented in a university, someone with the same statistics but an undeclared major would recieve equal footing.</p>
<p>Actually, a trick I’ve heard poeple use to get into a preferred college is to declare an under-represented major and then change about one or two years into their education to their preferred (and more represented) major.</p>
<p>yeah, that’s what i’m worried about. even if i’m not using that strategy to get into a college in the first place, it might just turn out that the major i’m interested in is more competitive than the one for which i got accepted.</p>
call the schools and ask.</p>