<p>Hello all I'm new...
Background Info:
GPA as of First Semester JR. Year: 3.6
ACT (First Try; First Semester JR Year; Taking classes and getting books this time hoping to get it up 4 points) : 24
SAT: N/A
Honors-8
AP-1
I'm a student that should not be reflected by my grades. If I had merely put ANY effort into my first two year I know I could be an A student. But I didn't. I don't regret it it's just not who I am. Now as a kid and throughout my life my passion has been in technology. Loved computers growing up. Anything I could get my hands on. Grew up fixing computers for people 20 years older than me. Loved toying around with gadgets. Now I am in a Computer Science class and I am finding it hard to get motivated in. As of my eighth grade year my passion shifted into music. Music is my life. I learned guitar and have become relatively good at it. I love amplifiers, toying around with my pedals and the different sounds I can make on my guitar. In my 6x6 room I have 10 speakers with which I have connected to a receiver. So yes I love playing guitar, playing with speakers, computers, my amp, guitar, etc. Now on the other end I'm a very convincing person. My dad believes I should get into business. I don't disagree with him he sees the persistence of successful business men he's met in me. I'm always pushing. I strategize on how I will obtain whatever I want. I refuse to accept no...and to my parents demise I succeed most if not all the time. I am not a spoiled child at all though. I receive things for the most part through my own money I had saved up. I have been told I have a knack for praising things and convincing people to get them if I found them cool or interesting. Ok enough rambling hahaha. My question is...what would I be good at majoring in? I am a good student for the most part and I am a pretty smart kid. Is there anything in business that could combine my love of music and technology with my manipulative ways together? It comes off bad I'm just a very convincing person haha. Thanks to all whom reply!!!!</p>
<p>Do you need to decide now? Unless you are applying to schools that require you to apply to a specific school or program (they have an undergrad school of business perhaps), why not take classes in business, computer science and music? You may discover that the way computer science is taught in high school is nothing like college and you enjoy the material more. The intersection of business and music, or business and computers can lead you in interesting directions professionally - or you may discover something else entirely.</p>
<p>Even if you do have to pick a major now, there is no reason and no penalty for changing it (multiple times even). Just make sure you know the barriers to entry and exit at the schools you are applying to. </p>
<p>By the way, try the SAT. Some kids do substantially better on it.</p>
<p>As stated above you can go undecided for almost 2 years at most colleges. And yes computer science is much different than what people actually anticipate. If you like code then computer programming might be the thing. Music would also be something great to pursue in either as a hobby or major but as a major you would most liking end up teaching it. If you are talented at business skills, that is great. I say that a career must be something that you are good at and enjoy. You can go in a lot of directions with your interests but you still have time to decide and you can always change. My dad at 50 years of age was seriously considering changing for IT work to teaching. Ultimately the decision is up to you and random people on a forum should not be the people your asking to plan out your life for you. Best of Luck! </p>
<p>However, these three majors may have large numbers of course requirements or long prerequisite sequences, so the freshman year schedule needs to be planned carefully to make progress in all of them to ensure 8-semester graduation for whichever one you choose.</p>
<p>^ Good point but as a junior in high school he should definately focus his time on his grades, test scores, and ECs. The one thing I would suggest is since senior class scheduling is coming up, that you select some classes that are in these subjects (like computer science as you did) to get a feel for the classes.</p>
<p>If you mean that are “are a student who should not be JUDGED by your grades”, how else are colleges going to evaluate you? One of the best ways to predict future behavior is to look at past behavior. But there’s nothing wrong with your GPA: a 3.6 is perfectly respectable. You don’t need to justify that.</p>
<p>Persistence and a persuasive nature are useful skills in any career, not just business. Besides, there’s a business of just about anything - there’s a business of technology, a business of music. There’s no reason you won’t use those personality traits in another kind of career. (There is a way that you can combine those loves, btw - music today uses all kinds of technology to make the music sound better and sell it. One of my friends was a music industry major at SUNY-Oneonta; there is a similar major at the University of Miami and probably other schools.)</p>
<p>If you’re not sure what you want to major in, you may want to apply to schools that are broadly good liberal arts schools (not necessarily LACs) with a wide range of majors that you can pick from. Before you arrive on campus, narrow your major interests down to a few, and take classes in those areas. That’s how you can decide what to major in.</p>