changing major too late

Changing a major

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People who go to colleges right now have to choose a major, but they may not know which major to choose yet, changing of the major too late will affect a student’s life a lot. People can find research about different majors on the internet. As can be seen in the graphic, 40% of incoming freshmen and 30% of current students are undecided about their major. The graph shows that 50%-70% of students change majors at least one. Choosing the major too late can be a problem because that will be waste of time, money and will affect financial aid.

Many students have been staying at their school one or two years but they still do not know what major is interesting for them. The number of changing major has been increasing at all colleges now. This is the problem because students who give up at the last minutes will make effects their time. First, people who take wrong a major will be waste time, because they will spend their time for a couple of years but they get nothing. For example, some students choose a nursing major then after two years, they change another major to businesses so that those two years of learning the nursing major class don't need for the business major; they need to start over. Moreover, some classes are not necessary for other major. 
Finally, changing majors can affect a student financially in terms of the student's income and financial award. Each year at colleges, students spent a lot of money and use the financial aid to help to support to payment. However, students who changing a major late will waste too much money in financial aid and may have less financial aid to use later. Another reason when the students very often change their major, it will aspect to their FAFSA. Example, the FAFSA will give every student 150 unit to help them in college, but the student is doing 60 unit at the second years; so if they change to a new major they only have 90 unit left to support them then the student have to pay by their money later. 

The best way to help students who want to change a major that talk to people to take advantage of their knowledge. A person who gives the students advice needs to experience about deciding a major because if the person doesn’t have enough knowledge to share with students that are making again and cause the problem to students. Therefore, whoever people listen and learn from them will help students to prepare to make the good decision. Another solution to help the student is research on the internet to know what they do need to change a major. For example, people who want to change major and transfer to another college. They can find which classes are necessary for their major at other schools, and then they can just take exactly which classes to save time and money; the student can find a counselor, parents, etc. The last solution for this problem is checking the bank account because students should need to know how much money could afford to pay a year at colleges. Some the cost of school is very expensive.

            The effect of changing a major is still increasing on students. People need to consider their option carefully to prepare before choosing a major, because going to school is the best way to make people's life better. In my opinion, people need to go to ask the counselor, parent or someone have experience about choosing a major before going to colleges. People who can choose a right major for them may avoid waste their time, money and thier financial aid.