The Second-Choice Major Game!

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<p>Quick, what’s your intended major? Now, fast forward a few years. You’ve been accepted to the college of your dreams, and, on the second day of class, you get the following e-mail from your academic advisor:

Well, it looks like you’ve got to choose a new major! So…what’s your top pick?</p>

<p>Rules:
•Please list your college, your original major, and your new major.
•Neither major may be undecided.
•If your dream college doesn’t offer a choice of majors, then stay out of this.</p>

<h2>•Don’t try to transfer to a different school. I’m watching you.</h2>

<p>Dream School: Brown University
Original Major: Computer Science
New Major: Physics</p>

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<p>Dream School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Original Major: Mechanical Engineering
New Major: Materials Science and Engineering</p>

<p>Although mathematics would be a close second after materials!</p>

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<p>Dream School: Stanford University
Original Major: Physics
New Major: Aerospace Engineering</p>

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<p>Dream School: University of Virginia
Original Major: Chemical Engineering
New Major: Economics</p>

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<p>Dream School: University of Pennsylvania
Original Major: Finance
New Major: Accounting</p>

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<p>Dream School: New York University
Original Major: Dramatic Writing
New Major: English/Education</p>

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<p>Dream school: Vassar
Original major: English
New major: history or medieval and renaissance studies</p>

<p>(Planning on double majoring in English and one of my “new major” fields, though.)</p>

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<p>Reality School (I’m too old for this place, but it’s still summer): Case Western Reserve University
Original Major: Mathematics
New Major: Computer Science/Philosophy</p>

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<p>Dream school: Princeton University
Original major: Biochemistry
New Major: Biology</p>

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<p>dream school: caltech
original major: eng/chem eng
new major: physics</p>

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<p>Dream school: University of Chicago
Original Major: Physics
New major: Mathematics</p>

<p>Though if possible I would take just under the number of classes required for a Physics major and maybe still apply to a Physics PhD program.</p>

<p>@DiscipulusBonus Awesome profile picture.</p>

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<p>Thanks, @Cosmological, and congrats on your conniving path to a PhD! ;)</p>

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<p>Dream School- Washington University in St. Louis
Original Major- Biology: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
New Major- Biology: Neuroscience</p>

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<p>Dream School: New York University
Original Major: Mathematics
New Major: Mechanical Engineering </p>

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<p>Dream School: University of Miami
Original Major: Microbiology
New Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</p>

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<p>Dream School: Brown
Original: Science and society
Alternate: political science</p>

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<p>Reality School: University of Kansas</p>

<p>Original Major: Mechanical Engineering w/ concentration in Biomechanics</p>

<p>New Major: Chemical Engineering or Physics (with a minor in Biology)</p>

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<p>Dream School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Original Major: Physics
New Major: Mathematics </p>