<p>Any idea which private schools are most suitable for Undecided majors? Prefer top national universities.</p>
<p>I am undecided in a range of majors - engineering, computer science, econ, business. The top 10 are out of reach for my stats.</p>
<p>My current list looks like this.</p>
<p>Reach:
Dartmouth
Brown
Northwestern
Cornell
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Reach/Match:
USC
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western</p>
<p>Safety:
U Miami
Santa Clara</p>
<p>Does this make sense?</p>
<p>blaw,
You’ve got a problem because of engineering. If you want to do this, most places will want you to begin there from Day 1 and commonly have a separate admissions process for this area of study. As for other colleges, I think you will get better suggestions if you expand your comments to indicate preferences on size, location, social life, athletic life, weather, etc. </p>
<p>You can get a great academic experience at A LOT of colleges, but the 150+ hours per week that you will spend out of the classroom will have a much larger impact on your personal satisfaction with your four-year experience. So think about what environments you are attracted to and that will help focus and inform your search. Good luck!</p>
<p>hawkette is right, you probably need to decide between a business/ econ type degree or an engineering/ comp sci degree right now. One thing you could do is look at transfer admissions from like the USC College of Arts and Sciences into their Engineering school, and see how hard it is to transfer after a year or so.
You do have the schools divided up into reach/match/safety correctly though, assuming you have very high stats.</p>
<p>I would look into top schools that have more of an open curriculum. So Amherst, Brown, Hopkins, Vassar, Hamilton, and possibly Washington University in St. Louis would be options. I do not think any of them have general education requirements which frees up more space to explore your options.</p>
<p>Thank you. I’ll look into a few LACs as well. </p>
<p>My chances may be better for engineering because I have high Math scores - 790/750 SAT 1/2 and 99 percentile in ACT Math. Only 650 in CR plus couple too many B’s make the top tier unreachable.</p>
<p>I like what Case Western says … you’re admitted to the university
and you can change your major at any time. I’m sure there may be a catch like minimum GPA for impacted majors.</p>
<p>I don’t want to go to Georgia Tech or SLO and get boxed into engineering.</p>
<p>Brown or USC are my top choices, not sure they are reachable.</p>
<p>The point is that you can’t (well, normal people can’t 
) switch to engineering after the first year and still graduate in four years. It’s a practical course sequence issue, not one of rules or difficulty.</p>
<p>Agree. I was surprised to see the very very low 4-year graduation numbers for Georgia Tech (31%) and Cal Poly SLO (23%). Looks like most people take 6 years to graduate from those schools and about one-third don’t cross the finish line!</p>
<p>Case Western
Stanford</p>