<p>And am I at any disadvantage for picking a major?</p>
<p>me too, I would very much like to know.</p>
<p>You can’t get into impacted majors I think, or at least not straight away, and it’s going to be hard to get into those after your freshman year.</p>
<p>Don’t feel pressured to commit to a major right away, after you take some classes you can get a better sense of which area/subjects you want to explore further. </p>
<p>You can change majors during orientation, and it seems fairly common for people to change majors in general. If you want to switch into another school (i.e. engineering) however, it’s a little more difficult as you must maintain a high GPA and take the required classes. You should probably declare by the end of your 2nd year, if you change majors late in the game (and there’s not much overlap), then you might have to take some extra time beyond 4 years to complete everything, unless the major doesn’t have too many requirements or you take summer school/extra classes per quarter.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re not especially since over 80% of college students change their majors at least one.</p>
<p>Not a big deal at all to be undeclared. Honestly it doesn’t really make any difference at all within the college of letters and sciences. In general how it works is that for orientation you state what major you are most interested in and they pair you with a group oriented towards that major so you can learn all of the requirements. Almost all entry level pre-major courses don’t require you to be in that pre-major so you can enroll in pretty much any class you need for your premajor. Everyone in letters and sciences is always in “pre-major” status anyways until they complete their requirements and are officially accepted into the major.</p>