<p>My question is quite simple: can I change majors after being accepted to Yale? For example, I chose biology but I may go into Bio engineering.
I ask this because if I had chosen an engineering major, I would've had to write an extra essay so changing might not be allowed.</p>
<p>Although you select an intended major on your application, Yale does not hold you to it, as most students change their major at least once during their four years of college. Admissions asks the question as another way to find out what you are interested in – nothing more. See:
[Thinking</a> Ahead about a Major | Yale College](<a href=“http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/thinking-ahead-about-major]Thinking”>http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/thinking-ahead-about-major)
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<p>Oh ok gibby, thanks for the response!
I asked mainly because some schools such as UPenn admit students to a particular section of the university and then changing works as transfering, if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>Anyway thanks for the answer!</p>
<p>At UPenn you apply to different schools within the university (Nursing, Wharton, Engineering, School of Arts and Sciences). That doesn’t happen at Yale; everyone applies to Yale College.</p>
<p>What gibby says is true. But I would speculate – and I think others agree – that it is a good idea to indicate your interest in engineering on your application.</p>
<p>Yale is very interested in building up its engineering program, which is nowhere near as popular as most of its other undergraduate majors. Yale has struggled for a decade to get enough Yale-quality students who are interested in engineering in the door. So, while I don’t think Yale compromises its admission standards to admit engineers, I think Yale probably accepts a meaningfully higher percentage of it qualified engineering applicants than it does of the qualified applicants in its general pool. </p>
<p>If you really want to go to Yale, and you are interested in engineering, but you don’t say that on your application because you don’t want to write an extra essay . . . you are really shooting yourself in the foot.</p>
<p>Actually I am not sure if I want to study biology or bio engineering, that’s why I didn’t mention it on the app. It wasn’t because of the extra essay, I am not that lazy :)</p>