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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My concern would be about limiting themselves to a very specific major. Some high schoolers think they need to have a major that is as specific as possible. In some cases this may be helpful or possibly even necessary, but in others it might be overly limiting.  That also might not be the case of your child given the specificity of the major. Some kids just know.

I'd also make sure that they're applying to schools they'd want to attend even if they switched majors. A lot can change even over the next year, before making a final decision, and it's even more likely for them to change their minds over the next two to three years, once they're taking college classes.[/quote]

This happened to our first but it worked out favorably, but in our kid's case it was four schools.  One rolling; three EA.   Considering two very different majors (one pre-professional, the other more of a general STEM) but only three of the four offered both.

In with money at the first school (rolling)  but probably at the bottom of their list.  Hard stop reject at the second school in EA which probably shouldn't have been a surprise but was at the time.  Third school - the one the kid most wanted to go to and a match on paper - was waitlisted.  Final school in and the good news is, it was one of the three that offered both programs and before our kid was even waitlisted started considering it because they had shifted their thinking on the major toward one that other didn't offer.

Three years later, happy with their decision and after the initial sting, never looked back.
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