<p>Spin off on another thread....</p>
<p>What was your or your child's intended major and what did they really end up with? Everyone is so focused on one program in various colleges that I think it would be interesting to see what "really" happens :D.</p>
<p>our house so far:</p>
<p>undeclared as freshman, graduated with an Econ degree
Bio/Chem as freshman, graduated with social science degree
Math as freshman, ???
Bio/Chem as freshman, ??? </p>
<p>Last two start this fall :D.</p>
<h1>1. Started as a computer science major, finished as a computer science major. Never even considered changing his mind.</h1>
<h1>2. Started as an economics major, finished as an economics major. Never even considered changing her mind.</h1>
<p>Their parents, on the other hand, changed majors midstream and therefore changed the entire course of our lives. I think we are the more typical specimens.</p>
<p>I intended to major in math/chem, calc cured me of that. 
I ended up majoring in Mgt/Finance
DW started out in Mgt, ended up in Math/Finance
DD1 started and graduated with a degree in English
DD2 started and will graduate (next month!) with a degree in Math.</p>
<p>Ds1 didn’t have to declare until end of sophomore year. He went in thinking environmental science, declared poli sci.</p>
<p>S entered with an intention of trying a little bit of everything, started a third foreign language. The only major he had ruled out was his primary foreign language. Surprise, surprise: majored in that language. :)</p>
<p>From our family…* for people gainfully employed in their chosen field, in the end :)</p>
<p>comp sci, then prelaw, then communications, = English – grad school MLS*
math = math*
secondary ed history, poli sci = journalism*
mechanical engineering = photojournalism*
art education, art history = PhD art history*
engineering, geology, comp sci, = dropped out, employed in heart’s desire
primary ed = primary ed
acting = acting
film/cinematography = TBD (still in school)
primary ed, secondary ed history = TBD (still in school)
culinary arts = culinary arts*
sociology, journalism, psychology, law, communications = TBD (still in school)</p>
<p>D entered as Biology College of Arts & Sciences ~ will graduate from the College of Pharmacy.</p>
<p>This looks fun. Wish I had a list. I could add myself (because I changed majors 5 times), but that was back in the stone ages. So far, just one:</p>
<p>Started rad tech (yes, a bachelor’s program), now nursing.</p>
<p>My son, who graduates in May, started out as an econ/chemistry major. Then, he went econ/poli science/math with hopes of also earning a masters in econ all in four years. Restrictions on a scholarship ended his masters’ hopes. Will graduate with a degrees in econ and political science with a minor in math.</p>
<p>Entered undecided but leaning towards Politics/Econ. Declared politics with a concentration in political economy and a minor in history.</p>
<p>I started music and ended up business administration. S1 started and ended biology and is currently in med school. S2 started bio-engineering and ended chemical engineering.</p>
<p>D1 started as a physics major---->graduated as a double major in physics and mathematics. She’s now more than halfway done med school.</p>
<p>D2 started as a biological neuroscience major---->graduated as a double major in biological neuroscience and mathematics. Applying to medical school.</p>
<p>I started in chemistry---->graduated in English language and literature. Currently a medical librarian. </p>
<p>DH started in Chem Eng-----> graduated with a double major in chemistry and physics with a minor in mathematics. Earned a PhD in physics. Academic research physicist.</p>
<p>D started undecided but leaning toward biology or history. Is now a geology major.</p>
<p>DD entered freshman year as Theater major-and graduated as a Theater major.</p>
<p>Added major in Political Science and a minor in Environmental Policy.</p>
<p>Finished in 3 years & 1 quarter-Summa Cum Laude.</p>
<p>Don’t ask me when she slept…I have NO idea how she juggled THAT schedule!</p>
<p>Entering freshman: Anything but Accounting.
Graduating Senior: Accounting.</p>
<p>International Affairs, International Affairs, no job yet.</p>
<p>Thanks for breaking ou this thread!</p>
<p>Entering freshman as a biology major/pre med… Graduating with double major in English and anthropology next month.</p>
<p>Entering freshman as undecided, but leaning towards English… Two years later declared major in biology/pre med, with minors in chemistry and business.</p>
<h1>1 was a Psych major and ROTC cadet as a freshman. (Wanted to be FBI agent.) Today he’s a Comm major + minors in Poli Sci and Theatre. Now, as a junior, he wants to be the next Jon Stewart.</h1>
<h1>2 is currently a freshman Health Sciences major. She’s had Physical Therapy aspirations since 7th grade. I’ll be surprised if she changes.</h1>
<p>My daughter’s still in high school and so far, wants to major in pre-k to 4th grade education. So I’ll just do myself, my husband and some family members:</p>
<p>me: Started as Journalism major, went to Business, ended up in Advertising.
husband: History, from beginning to end.
nephew: Started as math major, ended up in Accounting.
brother: exactly as someone else said - started as anything but Accounting … ended up as an Accountant.
brother: undeclared … ended up in General Business because he didn’t know what else to do, graduating with a 2.0 … and he’s now the most successful of all of us.
brother: Engineering, start to finish.</p>
<p>My oldest has known he wanted to study computer science since he was 7, never wavered and is working in the field.</p>
<p>My youngest (junior) thought he’d probably do IR and take Arabic as his required foreign language. He’s in Jordan studying Arabic and majoring in IR and will probably get a minor in Arabic. He does say he’d have enjoyed college more being a history major and would probably have come out in much the same place, but with a department that was easier to work with. By the time he figured this out, it was really too late to make the switch. Spending a full year abroad when your college won’t accept credits for much of anything useful is a pain in the rear.</p>
<p>Me: I thought I’d major in History and Lit, ended up in Visual and Environmental Studies. About a 180 degree turn - no overlap in courses whatsoever!</p>
<p>DH: knew he’d major in sciences ended up with majors in Biology and Physics and said he probably had enough credits to have done Chemistry as well.</p>