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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It depends on the college.  At VaTech, for example, you apply to one of the 7 or 8 undergraduate colleges and can declare a major within that college immediately.  At W&M, OTOH, you apply to the undergraduate college and you aren’t allowed to declare a major until your third semester.  I think, GENERALLY SPEAKING, SLACS and the arts and letters/arts and sciences schools in larger universities follow the latter model.  I think what people mean when they say they are applying as X major, they indicate their intended major on the common app and have the course work and EC’s to support that.  If your kid has been doing robotics, coding, and math competitions throughout HS, it won’t work to say you are applying as an anthropology major to try to “back door” your way into a selective college.[/quote]

This. Informally declaring a major in high school is just one aspect of the premature personal branding encouraged and rewarded by elite school admissions offices these days. [/quote]

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