<p>I've heard from multiple people that its best to know where you're headed in terms of your major as soon as you set foot in college, because if you take too many classes without any shared area of focus, or if you switch majors in college, it'll end up costing you in the long run, due to a possible need to stay in college longer to meet the necassary classes.</p>
<p>Do you guys believe this is true?</p>
<p>No - be sure to take core classes at first. Most students change majors (more than once?).</p>
<p>“(more than once?).”</p>
<p>I am guilty of that. </p>
<p>For some majors - languages, sciences especially, etc - it’s really hard to finish on time because there are certain classes that you have to take in a certain order. Like for example, Arabic at my school - There is an Arabic language class every single semester for four years for arabic majors. So if you decide to switch from undecided to arabic after a semester you are already a year behind everyone else because in second semester they are already moving on to the second class, which you cant take, because you havent taken the first class. </p>
<p>You can take your core classes but most people don’t JUST take core classes their first semester.</p>
<p>Its a good idea to know if you want to do science or liberal arts. Liberal arts tend to be more forgiving and flexible. Also, there are usually less prerequisites for classes. The sciences have more structure and usually you have to take classes in a certain sequence.</p>
<p>But it depends on the school, the core requirements and degree requirements and how they set up the prereqs.</p>
<p>not really, the average college student changes his/her major 3 times, so you’re basically just saving yourself a lot of trouble by being undecided then switching to a major you like.</p>
<p>No, you’ll be fine. Although I stayed in the business school I changed my major 4 1/2 times (I say 1/2 because I changed back =P) and I am still on track to graduate in 3 1/2 years.</p>
<p>Depends, if you want to eventually do engineering/science/pre-med you’re going to be hurting yourself as you’ll end up making your course load harder later on. Other than that you won’t be that bad off.</p>