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Picking your Major Early

尽早选择你的专业

This decision will have as great an impact if not more, on how the rest of their life will turn out than what college they decide to attend. How someone views the world, what jobs they are eligible for, what graduate schools they can apply… will all be largely influenced by what someone majors in.

也许这一决定在改变一个人的余生方面产生的的影响也超不过对他大学取向选择方面的影响。一个人他怎么看待这个世界，他适合于什么工作，哪些毕业院校他可以申请……这些在很大程度上都受他的专业影响。

Even when colleges do have the same major, they often look at academic disciplines from different points of view. If you were to study at the conservative department of economics of University of Chicago vs. the liberal department at UC Berkeley, you would probably come away from college with very different views of economics.

尽管大学里确实有相同的专业，他们经常从不同的观点来看待学科。要是你在保守的芝加哥大学经济系学习，和在开放的加州大学伯克利分校学习相比，也许在你毕业的时候对经济学的有观点会有很大的差别。

Universities often also have their most popular majors broken off into smaller schools or colleges so they can better regulate the number of student s in that major. These smaller schools or colleges often have their own separate application process. If you would like to major in Engineering and you apply to UC Berkeley, you would actually apply to the College of Engineering, instead of the main College of Letters and Sciences. As you might suspect, getting admitted to these smaller schools and colleges is usually much more difficult. Universities often will have back doors, that allow for some students to transfer into these schools or colleges during junior year, but competition for these few spots is often very fierce and should not be taken as a given.

大学还经常把它们最流行的专业分散到小一点的学校或者学院，这样它们就能更好的调整该专业的学生数量。这些小一些的学校或学院通常都有它们自己的独立的应用流程。如果你愿意在加州大学伯克利分校主修工程专业，那你就去上工程学院，而不是那个文理学院。也许你会怀疑，获得批准进入这些小一些的学校或学院通常会更难。大学经常会有后门，它允许一些学生在三年级的时候转学进入这些学校或学院，但是对于这些少数名额的竞争经常也很激烈，是不会作为礼物得到的。

All of these schools have majors that they have more or less trouble getting students for. As you might guess, applying to schools saying you want to major in a department they have an overflow of students in will most likely hurt your chances, while stating you want to major in something they are struggling to find students for will help your chances.

所有的这些学校都有一些专业在招生方面有或多或少的难题。就像你可能猜想的，假如你要在拥有过多学生的一个系里主修，上这类学校很可能会使你错失机会。这里建议你去哪些正在为生源而奋斗的学校去学习，因为它们对你把握机会有帮助。

Colleges make assumptions and generalizations about you based on what you have in your application. If you state you want to major in women’s studies at a school well known for their business program, while you have taken several business classes, several of your extracurricular activities are business related, and you are male, they probably will guess that you are actually interested in their business program. If you want to major in business it would be easier to getting accepted majoring in economics, if you want to major in engineering it would be easier getting accepted majoring in physics...

大学往往根据你申请表里面的内容对你进行设想和概念化。如果你申明你想进入一所以商务内容文明的学校去主修妇女研究，如果你参加过几次商业课，某些课外活动也跟商业相关，并且你是位男士，也许他们就会猜想你确实对他们的商业计划感兴趣。如果你想主修商务，去上经济类的会更容易些被接受。如果你想主修工程，去上理科类的更容易些被接受……

The fact is colleges usually leave back door ways to get into the most popular schools and majors, just so they can get better students to apply and go to their school for less popular majors. If you are also interested in a major other than the one you put on your application, it is very important that you look to see how easy it is to transfer into this major, or you may end up getting into to college you want, but you may get stuck majoring in something you don’t.

事实上，大学通常为进入最流行的学校和专业留有后门，这样它们也能招到更好的学生去它们学校上非主流的专业。如果你也对其它专业而不是你申请表描述的专业感兴趣，或者你会看到转到这一专业有多么简单，或者你会进不了你要的学校，这点很重要。但是，你可能会在没要求的专业上遇到麻烦。

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