OK. I can see that where he starts pretty much determines it. Our financial situation allowed for transfers between colleges. My oldest two did graduate from their first choice. My youngest had every intention of sticking with her first choice but it did not really provide anything she found she was really interested in so she transferred after her first year.
I was thinking of his changing his mind more in terms of between the fields of engineering and I was under the impression that he was undecided about choosing between some engineering and the classics, as an either/or thing. A double major would be very impressive to grad schools.
My son is in engineering and it took him a year to get the flavor of all the fields to pick one. He ended up choosing telecommunications engineering because it was the field which was most likely to provide a job. There’s a general shortage of telecom engineering graduates compared to the other fields. His choice of degree has already landed him one internship already.
My youngest daughter was torn between math and science and art and photography. She’s great in both but what she did, with our encouragement, was choose the science/math related degree simply because it provides a better chance of being able to support herself with it. She can take the art/photography stuff as she wants and just do it as a hobby.
With regard to choice of majors, I'm kind of a mean dad. ;-)
I made him conduct a research project last summer, between his junior and senior year. He'd been very unsettled about things. That's not so bad - lots of kids go off to college with no idea in which field their going to major. But it was causing some anxiety. It didn't seem to me to be a productive attitude for his senior year.
As time has gone on, he's become increasingly firmer about his choices, especially as he continues to read about civil engineering.
He thought very long and very hard about what he might do with just a classics degree. He thought seriously about teaching, both on the high school and college level. He thought about careers in law or business (classics majors often go into these fields). None of those appealed.
But he still loves classics.
As well, in part because of credits garnered from AP exams, and in part because of the curricular flexibility at the target schools, he should be able to accomplish both majors without too much extra difficulty.
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