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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry in advance!
When my husband and I applied years and years ago to small colleges in the boston area we did NOT declare a major. Colleges weren't admitting by major, correct?

You declared a major maybe around sophomore year if you had your sh!te together. If you did not, you finally took a communications major and somehow cobbled together a diploma, maybe in 5 years, but with plenty of daddy's money.

Now kids apply into a major? And have to stay in that major immediately from fresh year?

thank you in advance, seriously.[/quote]

Do there are two types of institutions - Colleges and Universities.

Colleges usually consist of just Liberal Arts / Arts & Sciences majors. No business, engineering, or pre-professional majors. Classes are usually taught by full professors (not TAs). There are usually no Graduate schools associated with these types of colleges. Students at these colleges typically have the first two years to decide what they will major in before declaring.

Universities are institutions that have a College of Arts and Sciences PLUS other colleges such as business, engineering, education, architecture, etc.

For Colleges (sometimes referred to as SLACs - small/selective liberal arts colleges), your child can select an “intended major” or probably “undecided” on their application.

For Universities, your child will need to select which College WITHIN the University they would like to apply and THEN they can select an intended major (or possibly undecided) within that University.[/quote]

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