Choosing a Major Without Closing Doors
How students can build competence while preserving future flexibility.
How students can build competence while preserving future flexibility.
How to evaluate academic interests, strengths, and long-term implications before choosing a field.
How quantitative students can compare technical paths and future flexibility.
How students interested in health, behavior, and research can evaluate academic direction.
Why structured professional tracks require different academic sequencing and evidence.
How students interested in policy, law, diplomacy, or global affairs can compare fields.
How to decide whether further study should come immediately or after experience.
How to distinguish healthy academic evolution from reactive uncertainty.
How families can avoid choosing a field only out of fear of employment outcomes.
Why broad flexibility and lack of direction are not the same thing.
How major selection, internships, visa timelines, and employment markets should be considered together.
Coursework, skill development, experience, and future eligibility.
How to evaluate whether graduate study expands opportunity or postpones a decision.
How internships, coursework, research, conversations, and off-screen reflection can clarify direction.