<p>Regardless of what major you indicated on your college application, all incoming students start out as “undeclared.” You don’t have to declare a major until your 4th semester on campus!</p>
<p>Feel free to explore various interests right now (including chemistry!) and don’t feel compelled to decide on a major yet. </p>
<p>Re chemistry placement exam: which class are you hoping to test into? Most students are placed into General Chemistry 1, which is the standard starting point for a chemistry major. Some questions on the placement test will be really easy. (You’d place out of Chemistry Fundamentals if you can balance a chemical equation and convert from atomic mass units to grams.) Some questions will be really hard, to test if you’d be ready for Organic Chemistry. It’s great if you do well, but you only need to get the easy questions right to place into General Chemistry and be on track for the chemistry major.</p>