Top colleges and flexibility in switching school/major

[Anonymous]

What are the top colleges that are most flexible in allowing students to switch school/majors during anytime of their undergrad years? How difficult to switch school/major at a top 10 school once you are admitted?

[Anonymous]

This varies widely from school to school and can involve anything from not an option to taking certain courses and achieving certain grades before applying for a change to just submitting a form.

[Anonymous]

At most top schools, you don't declare a major until spring semester sophomore year, so it's easy to change your mind after you're admitted. After you declare, whether you can easily change depends on the new major's requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At most top schools, you don't declare a major until spring semester sophomore year, so it's easy to change your mind after you're admitted. After you declare, whether you can easily change depends on the new major's requirements.

Except by sophomore year you are taking pre reqs for your intended major. At that point it may not be hard to switch between similar majors, but going from English to engineering may be hard because you'll be almost a year behind.

As a practical matter, if your kid wants to graduate on time without extraordinary efforts, they should have an idea what direction they are headed by the end of freshman year at the latest. They can likely tweak their major later (e.g., withing humanities), but they need to start working on pre reqs and sequenced classes as a sophomore, especially if in engineering, science or pre med.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the top colleges that are most flexible in allowing students to switch school/majors during anytime of their undergrad years? How difficult to switch school/major at a top 10 school once you are admitted?

The higher thr school is ranked usually thr easier it is to switch around

For example — way easier to switch around at Yale than Penn, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon for example

[Anonymous]

Johns Hopkins, you just fill out a form and then you have a new major! Many people double major here.