Finding your way at New College

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<p>I am interested in hearing from NCF people about the process of finding a direction/declaring a major at that school. I think that very few have the blessing of leaving high school knowing what they want to study and pursue after undergraduate work is done. A smart and successful business man and community college teacher told me that undergraduates should try one major after another until something clicks. He felt that this was a much faster and surer way to get in a groove than to take an open-ended liberal arts program and hope for the distilled quintessence of personal truth to dawn. From what I’ve read about NCF I am unsure as to how this works out there.</p>

<p>Did you enter as a freshman feeling pretty certain what field you would enter? Did you change your mind? How did the New College program help you get on track? Did you eventually get interested in something you were pretty sure was not for you when you started out?</p>

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<p>VTdad2014, please post your question in the New College forum, I’m sure you’re get some responses…</p>

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<p>I don’t think you really have the option of trying one major after another…since we’re talking about hundreds of majors. However, you can take a mixture of STEM and Liberal Art classes your first few semesters, before deciding on a direction, and then a semester or two before choosing your final major. Everyone has to take core classes in both. Your limiting factor is the max limit on credits you can earn, before graduating…schools don’t like seeing folks take more than 5 or so years to graduate. ;)</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>