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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Most of the popular/higher ranked UC schools, University of Washington, Seattle to name a few.  Go look at UW and it's easy to see.  If you don't get into the major your kid wants with direct entry freshman year, then you have to fight to get in.  It might take you 5+ years to graduate as you wait to gain admission to what you want.  And within engineering, even if direct admit, you still have to fight to get the exact engineering major you want.  Oh and say you want to switch out of engineering, well the most popular other majors are CS (that's even harder than Eng to get into, you dont' get in if not direct admit), Business (difficult to gain admission unless freshman direct entry), STEM majors like Chemistry, biochemistry, biology, etc....those are all impacted majors.

Very few kids want to switch from engineering to English or psychology.

It's a well know fact that if you don't get the major you want upon entering the university, you might take 5-6 years to graduate with a degree that you want to get, as you have to keep reapplying each semester.  And these are smart kids, kids with AP credits and Dual Entry credits.

Same is true at many of the Top UCs

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