<p>I have been accepted to UCLA as a music major and UCSD as a molecular biology major. If I go to UCLA i will major in music and minor in accounting. Much as I want to go to UCLA (and be in LA), I am worried that I cannot go to graduate school as an accounting major/business school if I decide to switch career routes. on the business school websites, it says that no specific undergraduate degree is required. Give me some advice!</p>
<p>I don't see what the problem is. You go to undergrad as a music major, you go to grad school as a business major, and you work for a recording company or manage an orchestra with the combination. It's just like getting an undergrad chem degree and then an MBA to go into pharmaceuticals administration.</p>
<p>However, if you intend to get a bachelors in performing arts just because it's fun and then <em>completely</em> switch career tracks to go into finance and work for tax firms or business incubators, I think you're a little off course. Double major, or minor in music, but there's no reason to practice eight hours a day just to drop the discipline in four years. And what about biology? Will it just blip off the radar as soon as you send in that acceptance card to UCLA?</p>
<p>I think you need to sit down and figure out what your career interests are. But don't forget: the major you declare as an incoming freshman is not set in stone, so it's silly to choose your institution based on it. I came to IU intending to study flute with a particular baroque genius. She liked me, she wanted to teach me--I told her I was also into biology and she kicked me out of her office with a warning not to come back until I had a change of attitude. So I never went back and pursued the sciences instead...and ended up discovering an unquenchable love for organic chemistry.</p>