<p>Do you have to apply for majors at Pomona or are you automatically accepted into your desired major?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>You declare your major (by the end of your sophomore year). I don’t believe you have to apply unless you’re declaring a special major.</p>
<p>From the Pomona website: “About 80 percent of our students end up doing something other than the probable majors they listed on their applications.” So, I’m guessing they’re not going to hold you to what you put on your app. There are some placement and advisory tests given the week before classes begin, but they are designed to guide your particular course of study within your major, not to keep you out of the one you’d like to pursue.</p>
<p>Pomona won’t hold you to the major you list on your app. A lot of students change their minds, especially if they discover a different area of interest at Pomona.</p>
<p>Majors don’t really matter here until you’re a senior. People say “I’m a [x] major” without actually being declared in [x]. There isn’t really anything you miss out on by being undeclared or even declared in a major you don’t intend to graduate from. As long as you take all of the required classes and do the senior exercise, you can get the major.</p>
<p>One reason you might want to declare early is to pick an advisor in the correct area, if you weren’t given one when entering the school.</p>