<p>Excuse my noobiness, if this seems like a dumb question. I haven't read anything about it though.</p>
<p>I was wondering whether you have to apply to a specific school when you apply to the university, or whether you can apply, say, your sophomore year. Example, do you have to apply to the Fu Foundation in your frosh application, or can you just apply to Columbia College, then apply to Fu Foundation later? I ask this because I'm as of yet undecided, and I'd imagine many other students are also undecided, so we don't know what school we want to go to yet..</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>EDIT: Columbia College might also be a school.. I'm not sure..</p>
<p>It really depends on the school, I think if I remember correctly a girl in our school applied to the wrong school at Columbia, so when she got accepted but realized she wouldn't be guaranteed transfer to engineering she ended up not going. Also, I know for Cornell you must apply to the specific school, but check with each school.</p>
<p>Alright ok. Can you apply to a school without declaring a major? Cuz a lot of schools have you declare your sophomore year, but you apply to the school your freshman year. Does this mean most undecideds are undecided but in one definite area of study?</p>
<p>Everything varies based on the university and school. For example...</p>
<p>At Columbia, you apply to either the College or Fu. It is possible to transfer between schools after you get in, but it's quite difficult. I believe you can apply undecided to both the College and Fu (even if you can't apply undecided, though, you can change your major easily).</p>
<p>At Cornell, you apply one of a number of schools. At one of them, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, you have to apply to a specific major. I think that, in contrast to Columbia, it is rather difficult (or at least cumbersome) to change your major.</p>
<p>At Princeton, you can state that your planned major is in the Woodrow Wilson School (part of the unviersity), but you can't apply to a major in that school until your sophomore year.</p>
<p>At Yale, there are no other undergraduate schools other than Yale College.</p>
<p>Where do you find this information? It's very helpful! I'm looking at Stanford in particular..</p>