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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kind of an edge case—but when looking at undergrad business programs, it's very important to consider whether students are accepted into and matriculate as freshmen directly into the business school.

In my experience, many students and parents don’t understand this, and our private school counselors also failed to mention it as a major consideration. My concern was: what if DC gets sick, has a bad freshman semester, etc., but chose the school based on the business major—then ends up getting rejected from the B-school and is forced to choose another major? UGA Terry was one of those schools. Great B-school, but only a 40% acceptance rate. DC just wasn’t really willing to roll the dice with other great options where they matriculated as an incoming freshman. Now a happy freshman already taking core classes in a great undergrad business school! [/quote]

This applies to all majors.  There are plenty of great schools, where 99% of the majors are open TO ANYONE.  None of this direct admit or you will never get in to engineering/CS/business/STEm majors.  Choose wisely.  Given that many kids do switch majors, much easier to be at a school where they can easily do this.  
Given that many who switch out of Engineering (Because it's too hard/not their thing) go to Business majors, but that needs to be a viable option at their school.

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The Your College Bound Kid podcast recently had an episode on how different schools deal with majors: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-college-bound-kid-admission-tips-admission-trends/id1349060136?i=1000682820473[/quote]

Both of my kids actively chose 5-8K undergrad schools that also allowed them to switch majors if needed.  First kid, half of their engineering friends became some type of business major.  Same for my kid who switched from Health sciences (lots of kids went to business).  cannot imagine being at a school where that is damn near impossible.  Given that 60-70-% of kids do switch majors, it's prudent to be somewhere that it's easy to do so.  Cannot imagine being told "you cannot major in what you want, now pay the massive tuition and R&B fees"   Only requirements at both kids schools (and all that they applied to) is having a C or C+ in the first 3 major courses before being allowed to switch (or something like that) and that is fair---if you cannot get a C in most of the first 2-3 courses of a major, you probably won't fair well in that major overall. 
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