When does admission to major after enrolling become a concern?

I would be wary of sending a kid off to a college with a 3.67 minimum to get into their desired major.

My younger son, had his GPA permanently depressed by his freshman year Arabic grades. It prevented him from getting internships and at least one study abroad program. It didn’t help that he got straight A’s junior year in study abroad programs and his school only counted them as credit/no credit.

My older son was on the Deans List freshman year majoring in CS, minoring in physics. I never actually saw a transcript after that, but I know he got at least one C because he slept through a midterm and he was never on the Dean’s list again. Luckily there was no minimum GPA to stay in the major! I think he actually did very well in the courses he cared about, but not necessarily nearly as well in ones he thought were a waste of his time. In high school he just got straight A’s in his sleep and his scores were high too.

I majored in a tiny major you had to apply to get into. (Visual and Environmental Studies). I have no idea how exactly they made the decisions, but I think I had a recommendation from a freshman seminar that was related, I had my AP Art portfolio from high school and I think I had to write something up about why the major interested me. I did not go to college planning on this major - I thought I’d do something with history and literature.