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1. Students need to choose a major before starting college -- the earlier, the better..
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2. Students who choose the wrong major are destined for dead-end jobs and careers.
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3. In terms of majors, the largest group of incoming first-year college students at most schools is "undecided."
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4. Undecided college students should take a wide variety of courses until they find a subject area that most interests them -- and then declare a major in that subject.
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5. Most college students stick with the major they choose in high school or during their first year of college.
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6. It's essential for students considering a professional degree in medicine or law to major in pre-med or pre-law.
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7. Once a college student chooses a college major, it's hard to change that major -- and harder to graduate on time.
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8. What you study in community college locks you into what you can major in when you transfer to a four-year college.
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9. At most colleges, with proper planning, students can have a double major or one major and multiple minors and still graduate in four years.
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10. Parents and family who are footing the bill for college often exert undue influence on college major choice.
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11. Majoring in the liberal arts -- especially something like philosophy -- will result in having limited job and career choices.
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12. All business majors find great jobs at graduation.
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13. The job market -- jobs that are projected with the highest growth and pay -- should be a major determinant in choosing a college major.
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14. All colleges and universities have numerous resources for helping students find the right major.
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15. The best approach for choosing a college major is taking the time to know yourself -- your interests, abilities, passions, values, life goals, and the like -- and then finding a major that best fits you.
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