Bad not to declare a major?

[Lager]

When applying to college, is it bad not to declare/choose a major at the time of applying?

 

[fatalbert]

nope, you will be in the majority of applying students, they don't expect you to be decided on a major before you apply

 

[MartyMcFly3]

i didnt have a major freshman year... its no big deal. I used it to get all the required crap out of the way and to explore some courses that i was interested in

 

[Schadenfreude]

You should declare your major as "philosophy". It's baaad to declare your major as anything else.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Don't declare a major. Don't just take "core classes" freshman year. Take classes to experiment. Take an anthropology class, geogrpahy class, etc.

 

[gopunk]

i dunno, i would just pick a major that's desperate to get students... seems like that would increase your chances of getting in.

 

[NutBucket]

Depends on what school you're applying to. At some schools its a lot tougher to get in undeclared and like someone else mentioned if you choose a major that's not really competitive that may increase your chances as well. Talk to people from the schools you're looking at. Admissions people have all this info.

 

[CanOWorms]

At my undergrad everyone came in with a declared major, you could just change whenever you wanted. In engineering we started our engineering courses immediately, so if you weren't a declared form of engineering you would be behind if you switched into it later.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
At my undergrad everyone came in with a declared major, you could just change whenever you wanted. In engineering we started our engineering courses immediately, so if you weren't a declared form of engineering you would be behind if you switched into it later.

and you're screwed when you try to switch out... grr... i'm a majorless senior :/

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: lnguyen

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
At my undergrad everyone came in with a declared major, you could just change whenever you wanted. In engineering we started our engineering courses immediately, so if you weren't a declared form of engineering you would be behind if you switched into it later.

and you're screwed when you try to switch out... grr... i'm a majorless senior :/

How can you be a majorless senior? What have you been taking the past three years?

 

[Turin39789]

I'm a majorless senior too, actually im a semester short, but i will be soon

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: lnguyen

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
At my undergrad everyone came in with a declared major, you could just change whenever you wanted. In engineering we started our engineering courses immediately, so if you weren't a declared form of engineering you would be behind if you switched into it later.

and you're screwed when you try to switch out... grr... i'm a majorless senior :/

:Q

 

[RabidMongoose]

Just say you're pre-med and choose something b/c 75% of the people will be like 'I'm gonna be a doktah!'

 

[Imdmn04]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Don't declare a major. Don't just take "core classes" freshman year. Take classes to experiment. Take an anthropology class, geogrpahy class, etc.

but there are different core classes for different majors. for example, most engineering majors has to take calculus, chemistry and physics as part of their core classes in their first year while a business major needs to take intro to microeconomics, macroeconomics, and accouting as part of their core classes in their first year as part of their pre-equsites to apply to the acutal major later on.

so my advice to you, is to have a general direction of where u wanna go, such as engineering, business or medical school, etc. most core classes required from majors in the same department are the same.