Do you intend to enroll in a degree program your first year?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>On the Common Application, what is this question getting at:</p>

<p>"Do you intend to enroll in a degree program your first year?"</p>

<p>Clearly, if you seek to enroll in college, aren't you by definition seeing to enroll in a degree program? What do they mean here?</p>

2

<p>In completing the Common App via the individual colleges’ “Future Plans” sections, none of them check or don’t check this box – maybe it is unimportant?</p>

3

<p>I thought this meant whether you wanted to start with a major or go undeclared? Could be wrong though.</p>

4

<p>Some colleges welcome non-degree seeking students–in other words, students seeking to expand their education through college courses but not necessarily with the intent to work toward a degree. That is the information these colleges are after with this question. It does not relate to college major or being undecided.</p>

5

<p>So, if you intend to be just a regular college freshman, do you answer “yes” or “no”?</p>

6

<p>If you are enrolling with the intent to graduate with a bachelor’s degree, then you are a degree-seeking student.</p>