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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Popular for people who want to have high student loan debt and no job, lmao.[/quote]
harsh, but true.

Sociology majors usually need a masters degree to get a decent paying job.[/quote]

easy to switch when you get to college people...[/quote]

BINGO!

For those looking for an edge, my social sciences (history, sociology, or poli sci) kid got into a competitive STEM-heavy school. He was an "academic diversity" applicant 😉 according to AO. Srsly, they said they were low on non-STEM boys.

He's adding business minor 2nd year.

Undergrad is the new high school.

Get in first. Judge later.[/quote]
um.. ok, but clearly they didn't switch to a STEM major.  They minored in business; that's not STEM.

It would be incredibly difficult to switch to a highly competitive STEM major from a humanities major in some of those schools.

For example, if you go in as a sociology major to UMD and try to switch to CS major, that would be extremely difficult, more like "not happening".[/quote]

There's a lot of incomplete info here. Look at the data. Much easier at some schools than others. ofc probably easier at the most selective schools (Brown, Stanford) so your kid needs an uber competitive T10 application with all of the EC/award bells and whistles that are in a different subject/academic area than CS.  Only works for kids with real varied interests. Or those that start in 9th grade with this strategy. Or private HS kids with access to lead 3-4 clubs due to school size etc.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/changing-to-computer-science[/quote]

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