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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Know and accept that you have a bias. You are most likely going to prefer - whatever college experience you had, whether a small LAC or large state school.

DH and I valued our large state school experience. So many options for majors, class sections, class times, different professors. No need to get a sign-off, convince a counselor if you wanted to change your major, drop a class, try-out a class in a very different subject just for fun. You charted your own course. [/quote]

Ummm....many good large state schools have 75% of the majors as "impacted".  So nope, you cannot just try a course, switch majors, etc.  
At smaller schools (my kids are at 5-8K undergrads) it was much easier to change majors (2 of my 3 kids did so, one changed their major about 90 mins before registering for fall soph courses).  It was very easy to take courses outside your major, switch your major, drop a class.  The difference is before dropping a course you have to talk to your advisor/the dept coordinator for your major.  Which is a good thing.  They guide you and make sure you don't do something stupid---like dropping a course that takes you below "# of units required to keep your Financial aid"/etc.  They help guide you to tutoring and extra help before you hit the point of needing to drop a course, because the goal is for you to succeed.  An 18/19 yo needing a bitof assistance is not coddling, it's helping prepare them for life.  In the real world good companies have mentors assigned to new hires to help guide them as well
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DP.  My kids attend different state schools.  All have switched majors at least once and never had any issue doing so.  Which schools are you referring to that have “75% of majors impacted”?[/quote]

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Notice, the PP never came back to tell us which schools have all 75% impacted majors.  What a lie.[/quote]

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