<p>I took mainly biology courses and volunteered at like senior citizen homes and hospitals.. but i want to major in software engineering... (computer science).. does it look bad that i just did all this biology stuff and like medical field things but didnt do much with computers?</p>
<p>I do take math courses.. and took one physics course if it matters..</p>
<p>If you have aptitude and interest in this field, and you don’t mind that you’ll have to start with entry-level classes, what could possibly be the harm?</p>
<p>Do you mean that you took life-sciences classes and volunteered in hospitals while you were in high school? Who’s going to know? Despite what they told you when you were 15, there is no such thing as “your permanent record.” Your high-school transcript will not follow you around for the rest of your life; your high-school volunteer activities, even less so.</p>
<p>Even if you mean you’ve been in college and you haven’t taken classes in software engineering yet, I can’t see the harm. It’s possible that a change to a major you haven’t already been working on could prolong your bachelor’s degree; you could end up taking 9 or 10 semesters to finish, instead of 8. But if you can afford to do that, nobody’s really going to look askance at you because you got a late start in your field. After you’ve finished a major in software engineering, they’ll care about what you can do as a software engineer, not what you might have done before that.</p>
<p>I’m in high school now, (going to be a senior in fall 2012) and i always thought i was going to be put into a medical field… but i found interest in software, coding, and engineering. So my prevoius volunteer expierence wont affect it what so ever?</p>