<p>Why do they say this? </p>
<p>I have been accepted into the CIT MechE Programme. </p>
<p>But...I want to do a dual major in the humanities or something, and don't quite know what exactly. Also, I may want to shift around in the primary major, too.. </p>
<p>Is it easy to change majors?
Why do they say the above quoted statement (not a place to discover yourself?)</p>
<p>I've heard cross disciplinary co-ordination is very good. I've also heard it's a lie. What's true?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Cross disciplinary co-ordination and collaboration is different from dual major. The former implies you can do, e.g, joint research between bio and robotitcs, or robotics and cs, or music and cs. The latter is just more course load on you in unrelated fields.</p>
<p>Second part of your title seems to imply it is harder to switch majors. That is not true either at cmu. They clearly state which majors are impacted (e.g, cs, or ece). The rest are easy to switch. This is unlike the case at many uc’s, e.g., uc berkeley which is a major trap.</p>
<p>so it’s easy to major in an engineering, but minor in, say, economics from tepper? I could just decide this is what I want to do one day and I can (assuming i’m not too far into college yet?) Wow, thanks for this thread, because I’ve been doubting matriculating to cmu.</p>
<p>I’ve been wondering the same thing. I only applied to MCS, but I think that I would probably be much happier in SCS or IS.</p>
<p>I don’t know why people expect 17 year olds to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>^May because many parents are funding their kid’s education at $20,000 to $50,000 a year. Where as the parents also know that their kids could have gone to a State University for much less. </p>
<p>May because this parent told offspring that the loans we took out, will be his loans as soon as he starts making money. </p>
<p>May because foreign students are full payors. </p>
<p>May because the fifth and sixth year of undergraduate work strains the relationship between parent and child, " I’m paying $n0,000/year and you decide to change majors and this will mean another [1,2] years !?!??!!. We promised 4 years, not 5 ! Do You Git It !!"</p>
<p>CMU is not known for being a place to get a liberal arts education. People who dont know what field they want to go into generally go to more LA oriented places. Im not quite sure why you would bother apply if you have no clue what you plan to be. </p>
<p>You shouldn’t ever have a profession you don’t like so I see nothing wrong with a change of major. What I mean is that if you THINK you want to be a computer scientist, go for it, if you decide you were crazy as a 18 year old, by all means change or transfer. But if you have no idea what career you want, its probably useless studying CS at CMU.</p>