<p>Hello everyone! I was just admitted to the journalism program at Northeastern University. I applied as a journalism major, but between the time when I submitted my app and now, I took a biology class and absolutely loved it. I would like to change my major to biology. on the MyNeu page, I can submit a request. My questions are, what should I say in the notes part, what are the odds of my major being changed, and will they rescend my admission/ grant money if I do not have the scores/gpa for this program? Thank you.</p>
<p>Bumping this up because I have the same question.</p>
<p>I do not believe they would rescind your admission or your scholarship. If you were looking to switch into a program with more competitive admissions, you might not be able to change, but they wouldn’t kick you out for wanting to change. Changing majors is a relatively common aspect of college. If you give a strong reasoning (and your reasoning sounds good to me) as to why you want to switch, I anticipate that it won’t be a problem.</p>
<p>I don’t know how it works this early on, but once you’re in college, though, your often have to have taken certain classes in a major in order to officially change to it (because they want to make sure you know what you’re getting into). You might try contacting admissions or your academic advisor.</p>
<p>Definitely definitely definitely fill out the request on myneu. It might even help to email the Bio advisors or admissions, etc (it can’t hurt).</p>
<p>There are a lot of people who switch majors, especially within the original “CAS” colleges. But the problem is that a lot of tough majors are very hard to catch up on once you’ve been here a while-- Bio is one of them. So if you can get switched over to Bio before you choose your classes, meaning you won’t fall behind at all, it will be a major benefit for you.</p>
<p>Yea I will try to fill out a request. They emailed me back saying it won’t affect my admission or aid status. However, if my request doesn’t go through, I plan on changing the first year I am there so I do not fall behind. Thank you all for the great answers by the way!</p>
<p>My request was accepted, thank you!</p>
<p>That’s great that they got back to you so quickly. Happy for you!</p>