<p>does it hurt your chances if you apply to a school undecided?</p>
<p>At many schools, you don’t even actually HAVE a major your freshman year; what you put on your app is simply what you think your major is going to be. Obviously, applying undecided to these places won’t affect much.</p>
<p>However, there are a few places where you do go into a major your freshman year, and “undeclared” is just a pseudo-major you have to transfer out of later in college. If that is the case, then it may or may not affect your chances, depending on how much the school tries to balance majors and just how popular the undecided option is.</p>
<p>Overall, it’s no big deal… you’ll be in better shape if your major is very uncommon. (they might be suspicious though if you pick a major that makes no sense)</p>
<p>You might be in worse shape if your major is very common.</p>
<p>Still, it’s not that important… Undecided is fine.</p>
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<p>Yes, it’s really okay. :)</p>
<p>Yes - Almost everyone who knows exactly want they want to major in changes their mind and colleges know that better than anyone… It’s OK</p>
<p>This is kinda unrelated but would picking some really obscure major possibly help your chances at admission?</p>
<p>it’s fine to do undeclared. note that it can make life a little more stressful in picking classes, etc. when you do get to college. just be sure you have an idea in your mind of if you favor the humanities end of the spectrum or science end of the spectrum. or combination.</p>
<p>and mabsjenbu123, picking a really obscure major and not having the credentials and essays and reasons to back it up will severely hurt your chances at admission. admissions officers aren’t stupid; they can tell when you’re trying to say something just to pad your application.</p>
<p>I asked my guidance counselor this and she said, “Do you really want to go to a college that will look negatively on your application if you don’t know what you want to study for the next 4 years of your life?”</p>
<p>Sounded good to me.</p>
<p>it doesn’t hurt your chances of admission. However at some schools, particularly large publics with impacted majors, it will be quite difficult to change later to a few majors such as engineering or something in Arts (theater, etc).</p>