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What MyMajors does Assists you to identify potential majors to consider Helps alert you to factors that go into selecting a major Provides information on the nature of specific majors Offers an advisement report for discussion with your parents or counselor. How does MyMajors do this?
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What MyMajors does • Assists you to identify potential majors to consider • Helps alert you to factors that go into selecting a major • Provides information on the nature of specific majors • Offers an advisement report for discussion with your parents or counselor
How does MyMajors do this? • Conducts a 10-minute interview modeled on that of an advisor • Recommends 5 majors appropriate for you to consider from among 104 majors • Provides further help • Understanding what a major is • What a major might entail • Why one might wish to major in it • Courses involved • Etc.
Lots of Information on: • College planning • Majors • FAQs
Generate or see a sample advisement report • Find an independent counselor • Request a copy of College Outlooks’ Counselors’ Guide
Returning users need not reenter all input the 2nd time
Help screens on every Page explain why this Information is asked for. After you have entered, you will be asked for basic information.
Note the progress bar. The interview is completed In less than 15 minutes.
Your grades in • Required courses • Electives • imply which majors • you will do well in.
How much you enjoyed your courses implies what majors you will enjoy.
The choices you make suggest which majors you might like.
How you spend your free time suggests which majors you might like.
Which disciplines seem to hold your interest, perhaps as a major? Click on up to five fields you think you might like to try.
Would you like • to include the • recommendations of • Parents? • Counselors? • Friends? People who know you and think you have the personality or skills to succeed in a major often have good insights.
Eliminate as many major as you are sure you don’t want. Don’t over-do it. Be reasonably selective. Don’t know? Here is information about all the majors.
Three screens like this. Click on the help links for an explanation of the question.
A sample help screen.
Randomized recommendations link to major descriptions. Click on them to see this information. • Print out the screen or the • Advisement Report to discuss • with your parents, your counselor, • or college representatives. A great • Advisement Report shows: • The top ten recommendations in • rank order • All your input in an easily read • Format. Give us feedback
A sample major information page. Note the kinds of information that are available.
Each major information page has links to our featured institutions’ home page and majors.
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Some Thoughts to Consider • Don’t reject a major because “it’s nothing but …” • Do you really understand the major? • Do you know how many options it opens for you? • For example, a computer science major need not be programming. It can lead to careers in training, technical documentation, and consulting.
Do you understand what the major is? • Some majors include multiple specializations • For example, Health Sciences includes pre-med, pre-vet, pre-dental • Check out the major information page for a complete explanation
Just because you never heard of it, doesn’t mean that it won’t be good for you to consider • For example, metallurgy and materials science is very similar to chemistry and chemical engineering and nursing requires many of the same courses that pre-med does. • Review the major information page for complete information.
Have you made up your mind already and the suggestions you received didn’t include the major you selected? • If you are strongly interested in a different major, you may well be able to succeed in this major • MyMajors makes the best effort it can to find a major appropriate for your background and interests • Be sure that you are not over-estimating your likelihood of success completing the major you have in mind
Are you thinking about an undergraduate major? • Many students have a career in mind that is not an undergraduate major. • For example, becoming a physician, a lawyer, a pharmacist, or a counselor requires a graduate degree. • Get more information about each career you are thinking about to see whether a particular undergraduate major is required or recommended. • You can go on for a graduate program from many undergraduate programs.
Don’t be misled by the media • Professions that you are interested in today, but that are not attractive, may well be in great demand by the time you finish college. • Most professions are misrepresented in the media. • There are not many people who are profilers. None are symbologists, and most lawyers and criminal justice personnel have more hard work to accomplish than is obvious from television.
You may need to narrow down the choices if you have too many majors in mind. • Many majors have tight sequences of required courses and pre-requisites, so a delay may cause you to spend an extra semester or year in college. • There are significant financial costs for unnecessary delays (i.e., additional tuition, books, living, lost wages).
