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<p>Majoring in engineering typically requires starting the prerequisites as a freshman in college, with sufficient high school math and science preparation. It may also require getting admitted to a college’s engineering division in the first place, since it may be difficult to switch into later.</p>
<p>So a student who “may” be interested in engineering may want to start along that path, but use breadth courses to explore and allow for switching into something else later, which is typically easier to do than switching into engineering (both in terms of course sequencing and administratively). Most other majors have less constraining course sequencing, and some which do need prerequisites taken early (like physical and mathematical sciences) have substantial overlap with freshman and sophomore engineering course prerequisites.</p>