Which of these colleges including Yale is flexible?

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<p>Hey!! I have a small problem and was wondering if you guys could help me out. I like both engineering and economics and the thing is that I am not sure which intended major I should state in my application essays. On top of that some colleges want a specific essay on your intended major also (like Cornell). Thirdly I am not sure which one I will opt for in college and I might have to change. Can you please tell me which one of the colleges below are flexible enough to allow you to change your major from eco to eng or vice versa in first year??? I don’t want to double major I think. I know Cornell asks you to apply to one of its specific colleges in the application essay and then you have to write an essay on it as well. So you can see the problem…</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>U Penn</li>
<li>Princeton (I think its flexible??)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Washington University</li>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Rutgers</li>
</ol>

<p>Thanks in advance…</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard - flexible</li>
<li>Yale - flexible</li>
<li>U Penn - not flexible</li>
<li>Princeton (I think its flexible??) - flexible</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins - flexible</li>
<li>Dartmouth - flexible</li>
<li>Brown - flexible</li>
<li>Cornell - not flexible</li>
<li>Columbia - not flexible</li>
<li>Stanford - (I’m not sure I believe not flexible)</li>
<li>Washington University - flexible</li>
<li>Boston - Not sure</li>
<li>Duke - Not flexible</li>
<li>Rutgers - Not sure</li>
</ol>

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<p>^From what I’ve heard from Stanford representatives, Stanford should be flexible. They know that you are not 100% sure about your major, and that it’s very likely to change.</p>

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<p>for stanford, they dont allow you to really declare for the first two years, so i would say that they are VERY flexible.</p>

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<p>thanks…u guys rock!!!</p>

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<p>Yeah stanford is very flexible about majors. Even after you do declare its not really an administrative problem to change majors, just an academic one (you need to have time to take all the required classes). I will caution that at Stanford, Economics seems to be the one area other then Premed that really likes to weed people out. Prerequisite requirements are strictly enforced, which I haven’t heard of outside of the econ department or the bio and biochemistry cores.</p>

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<p>Duke is also flexible about changing majors… where are you getting your info from slipper?</p>

<p><a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=changing-a-major-minor[/url]”>http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=changing-a-major-minor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^I think the concern was in regards to switching from the engineering school to the colleges of arts and sciences. </p>

<p>In regards to Duke, at the admissions session I went to, they said that about 40 kids make the switch every year from one school to the other. Other schools may be less flexible about switching schools, since the admissions processes aren’t the same for each one.</p>

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<p>I think you have to put Duke in an intermediate category:</p>

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<p>That’s from the Duke webpage on transferring between schools at Duke. I think the translation is that you can do it, but not until you finish your first year, and when you do that it is going to be a pain in the neck to meet the requirements of the other college and graduate on time. And if you are even thinking about transferring into engineering, you should be taking a number of courses that will count towards the engineering requirements even before you transfer.</p>