<p>Wondering if you'd apply to your all time favorite school, knowing full well you wouldn't be attending because they don't offer your intended major? $50 app fee...
I feel like I'll regret not applying and not knowing if they'd have accepted me or not. I just really want to know if they'd be interested in me as that I have that option...
Thanks for any insight!</p>
<p>What is the point of applying if you will not go to that school?</p>
<p>Why would you? After you’ve graduated from college and are working will you be bragging that you were accepted at ________ but decided not to go there? If so then go ahead. I have better uses for $50.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine why I would do such a thing.</p>
<p>I mean, you can if you want, I guess, but I can’t think of a reason in the world why I would. (Or why I would let one of my kids spend 50 of my dollars that way.)</p>
<p>If you’re interested in a pre-professional or arts field (dance, music, engineering, business, etc.), the availability of one’s major can be critical.</p>
<p>I can think of several cases in which it might not be a waste, however.
[ul][li]The majority of students (70+%) wind up changing their majors. If you’re not sure about your major, especially if that college offers other fields that interest you, it would be worth an application. Heck, many students change their minds between fall of senior year and spring of senior year! :rolleyes:</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Many fields like zoology and public health don’t need to be studied at the undergraduate level. </p>[/li]
<p>[li]There may be sufficient course offerings in that area, even if there’s not an official major.[/li](For example, environmental science offerings in biology and geology, criminology offerings in sociology and political science, astronomy offerings in physics, etc.)</p>
<p>[li]Many careers don’t care in the slightest what your major was as long as you have the requisite skills.[/ul][/li]For what it’s worth, my undergraduate university doesn’t have a single professor in the field I’m getting a PhD in. The attention to undergraduates, large amount of undergraduate research funding, and curriculum flexibility at my undergrad allowed me to be accepted to most of the top programs in the field anyway.</p>
<p>NCI: warbler has great advice for you. You might apply and find a reason to attend. </p>
<p>But if you just want another trophy, please consider taking that $50 and donating it to the local women’s shelter. They need it DESPERATELY more than you need a letter to put in your files.</p>
<p>Indeed those are excellent reasons for applying, and I am never surprised when warblersrule says something really valuable.</p>
<p>I was taking NCIS at his or her word when he or she claimed to have no intention of enrolling if admitted. If that’s literally true, I wouldn’t support applying for the sake of satisfying curiosity (or of collecting trophies). But if any of warblersrule’s arguments cause the OP to reconsider actually attending, that’s a whole different matter, IMO.</p>