<p>Does Freshman year have any courses toward a major?</p>
<p>On an essay, you mention how you like a department. But you get accepted, and don't like it, you can change, right?</p>
<p>You can take classes in your intended major freshman year if you’d like to, but the department you write on your application has no bearing on what you may choose to do at MIT.</p>
<p>If, for example, you write on your application that you want to major in physics, but come to MIT and find that electrical engineering is more your thing, there’s no need to “change” – you don’t declare a major until second semester freshman year at the earliest. (And even if you declare a major at the end of freshman year, you can change it up through the registration day before you graduate.)</p>