I was recently accepted into the Penn State Pre Design Major in Graphic Design, but I’ve been thinking about pursuing a path in Communications (I’ve been split between the two for a while). If I wanted to, how/when would I switch majors, and would it be very difficult? I’m assuming that the college of communications is much more competitive than my current major.
I’d just wait until you are there and then change in your first semester. Many people are switching majors when the y get there. LOTS of students change their majors at new student orientation if they are able. If worse comes to worse, you change to DUS (Undecided) and you work towards your major from there.
This is something that changes from year to year — some of the colleges have really become quite resistant to the whole change in the first semester thing , so if this is important to you, you need to contact your college and ask. It doesn’t make a ton of sense to decide until you have been in school more, anyway. There are lots of ways to combine interests without changing majors.