How many kids are still in initial major after freshman year?
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Anonymous
| DS started out thinking math because he's good at it, but has always loved politics so unsurprisingly is now poli-sci with likely econ minor. Many of his friends have also switched intended majors. Just funny because I still follow the high school's commitment page and of course most of the seniors' intended majors really mean anything, which is fine. Love seeing these kids explore and learn about themselves in college and am glad our educational system doesn't require them to commit to something too young. |
Anonymous
| *don't* really mean anything |
Anonymous
| Both of mine. One just graduated and the other is a junior. |
Anonymous
| Son went in as a finance major but pivoted to accounting sophomore year; he’s not at a finance target school and realized accounting will (hopefully) be more marketable. |
Anonymous
| 80% of freshman students intended to be a premed got weed-out at the end of the first year. Yes, they do change major. |
Anonymous
| I think many change their majors but probably within the same school or similar majors: so Eng to CS or Econ to Accounting. I don't think switching from humanities to hard science or vice versa is that common, though I do know two people who went from CS to Law, and philosophy (prelaw) to CS, however philosophy majors can make really good programmers. |
Anonymous
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Both of mine stayed in their intended majors, one after 2 years and one just graduated.
The new grad was a data-science type major and is now starting a job as a data scientist. He always liked math, stats etc. and did a pre-college program about data science, which helped him understand what it was. Rising junior is an environmental science major, took a class in it in HS and also did a pre-college program that confirmed her interest. Both took a while to settle on specific concentrations within their majors but never considered switching from the major. Data science major ended up with a concentration in cybersecurity/cryptography (after starting thinking it would be more geographic data). ES major initially thought she'd focus specifically on ecological restoration but is now more interested in water systems. |
Anonymous
Kids that start off in a hard major often change their major to something easier to coast through college and party. Math is hard, political science is not. As they say, "Poli-Sci, why try?" |
Anonymous
| Both of mine. One in a science and one IR. We worked hard with them in high school to identify aptitudes and what subjects they loved and show them ways to make it a career. Both stuck with their plans. But it would have been fine if they hadn’t. |
Anonymous
lol |
Anonymous
| One of mine went in undecided, so yes, that changed, thankfully. The other was CS all the way, but added two interesting minors. |
Anonymous
| my kid applied as an enviro major since that was his spike. at a hyp and switched out to applied math/econ/cs |
Anonymous
| My premed had a great year, thrived in prof and sticking with it. His good friend was thinking law school but wanted to give some pre-med req classes a try and it didn’t go well. Feel bad for them as law is so gpa focused just like med school. |
Anonymous
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Mine wanted business analytics when he applied. Now in the business school for business analytics.
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Anonymous
| Started as an English and Religion double major. Now double majoring in English and Chemistry. |