<p>Ok so I've been doing bits and pieces of research into Yale since freshman year, and I can't remember if I read it from CC or on the Yale website, but all undergrads get admitted into Yale College and from there, they can choose any major they want right?</p>
<p>It's not like UPenn, where you apply to the specific school (i.e. Wharton or SAS) and it's very hard to transfer to another school?</p>
<p>So let's say on your academic interests for the Common App, I put down history or economics. I can then very easily switch into engineering if I want to right?</p>
<p>Yes, I read about how people don't pick majors until at least sophomore year (unless you get advanced sophomore standing at the end of the freshman semester). However I just can't find the specific website link/page/source that explicity says: You are not stuck to the major your put on your academic interests.</p>
<p>Basically I'm doing the posts for my parents, who are not letting me apply to Yale unless I show solid proof the fact that I have full range of courses I want to choose and the major I want to choose. So if you guys post with the responses, it will help out a lot!</p>
<p>Yale does not have different schools for undergrad, there is simply Yale College. That should give you all the information you need. Separate schools in a university imply that you must apply to a specific one and a specific major. Departments are not the same thing; they are various divisions within a school or college and do not generally require an application specifically for them. Yale has departments, Penn has schools.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ll be able to find a specific quote, but you really have all the info you need. You know that you don’t have to choose a major until the end of sophomore year. Logically, this means that you don’t have a major until you have declared one, meaning you are undeclared upon entering college.</p>
<p>The closest proof I can give you is this: yale.edu/facebook
Go on that site, sort by class year, and notice that pretty much everyone on the 2014 page is undeclared.</p>
<p>Even if you happened to be placed into the major you put on your Common Application (not the case), changing it is as easy as going on a website and selecting another one.</p>
<p>Tell your parents to stop worrying. Yelopen tells the truth. I was a stated Chem major on my application. Started as Chem Eng as a Freshman. Tentatively switched to Econ/Poli Sci end of Freshman year. Declared Econ/PoliSci end of Sophomore year. Almost added History as a 2nd major beginning of Senior year. </p>
<p>Now, I wish I’d just been a History major cuz I loved that department more than Econ or PS.</p>