<p>Does applying as undecided hurt or help you when applying to USC? If it's better to choose a major, which departments are easiest and hardest?</p>
<p>Unless you might be considering majoring in some field of engineering or another competitive department, I don’t see how applying Undeclared will hurt you.</p>
<p>As for the easy and hard departments, that also depends on what you find easy/hard. Engineering is pretty difficult anywhere.</p>
<p>Marshall School of Business?</p>
<p>Apply to Marshall. If you are admitted as undeclared, you are admitted to the CLAS. From my understanding, you would then have to apply to Marshall after a semester or two. In any case, if you are not admitted to your first choice major, you are still considered for undeclared in CLAS.</p>
<p>Yeah, AMX is right. Apply to Marshall first. If you’re admitted, it saves the hassle of having to apply to Marshall later on. And if you don’t get into Marshall, you can be admitted as an undeclared anyways.</p>
<p>I have heard that if you apply first to Marshall and second to undecided then if you don’t qualify for Marshall you will be considered for CLAS, but I haven’t heard of anyone who has been accepted to CLAS when that has been their second choice. It makes me wonder if that is really true. Any of you hear of that scenario actually occurring in recent years?</p>