Hi, I’m currently a freshman at PCC, and seeking to transfer out to UCLA/UCSD. 2020 Fall wii be my first semester at PCC, because It’s first semester I have to take basic classes like College1H, English1A and math and I’m taking one Econ class.
I need to decide a major ASAP because different major have different requirement classes for transfer, but right now my problem is that I don’t know what’s my passion, I took a few major survey online, but that doesn’t help.
I know this is not magic, but any suggestions will be appreciated
Since you will be starting at a community college, it is less expensive if you end up taking extra semester there sampling courses to help you decide your major than if you were to do so at a four year school.
Also, many majors do not have that high a volume of strict progression of frosh/soph requirements, so you have some flexibility. The majors that do have high volumes or strict progression are more commonly engineering and science majors. You can check https://www.assist.org to see what each possible major at your target schools requires.
Some ideas to consider:
A. What courses or types of courses were most interesting to you in high school?
B. Do you envision any careers of interest, and do any of these careers require or strongly prefer a college education with a particular major?
My kiddo benefitted from using youscience.com. There were roughly four hours of aptitude and interest tests that you can do over a few days or all at once and then the program suggests potential career paths. We found it helpful. GL to you.
I hear you about the pre-reqs but, that looming transfer that’s one of the downsides of going the CC route.
i wouldn’t worry too much about finding your passion yet. I am in my 50s have an MBA and worked in some prestigious roles at companies you’ve heard of. Honestly, most people i’ve worked with didn’t have a passion you could major in or make money from.
For people who honestly don’t know, starting with biz can be a good first step. Take some marketing, biz law, etc. The knowledge will be invaluable no matter what you end up doing. If you hate it, switch … but you’ve made some progress. Most people change their major more than once. Just start down a path you think will be useful - then adjust if you need to.
- What do you like to do?
- What are you good at?
- Is there a way to be in both camps to make a living?
Assuming yes, steer towards courses, a major that will help forward that thinking.
@AaronReeeee we recently covered this topic in a College Confidential article, which may help answer some of your questions. Read the attached article here: here:https://insights.collegeconfidential.com/choosing-a-college-major
It’s hard to believe there is any specific major out there in which you need to start taking classes right now to stay on track. Sure, there are groups of majors where you need to decide at the start; if you want to go into science or engineering you need to start now with math & science. But kids thinking of “something in the sciences” or “I’m going to be an engineer” generally know that when they start college, even if they don’t know the exact major they want. For the liberal-arts majors, all the ones I’ve seen have a handful of requirements that can easily be done 2nd year at the CC.